Bid Writer

LifeLine Projects; Miri; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused charity seeks a Business Development Officer in Miri, Malaysia, to develop funding proposals and business strategies supporting public health and community initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in bid writing, excellent communication skills, and familiarity with fundraising in the voluntary sector. This role requires resilience, a detail-oriented approach, and the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years proven track record in bid writing and management.
• Experience in developing fundraising strategies relevant to public health and community programming.
• Familiarity with community or trust/grant fundraising.

Responsibilities

• Identify funding opportunities to support growth in public health and community services.
• Generate business leads through relationships with funders.
• Produce competitive funding proposals and tenders.

Skills

Excellent writing & communication skills

Analytical skills

Research skills

Negotiation skills

Self-motivated

Education

Degree level education or research experience

Tools

AI productivity tools

Job description

Overview

The post holder will form part of our small in-house business development team, developing funding and new business proposals to support the growth and sustainability of the charity’s activities. This will comprise a blend of grant and trust funding proposals, responding to relevant tender opportunities, and pursuing other fundraising or business partnerships and opportunities as may benefit the charity.

Responsibilities

1. Working with operational managers to identify relevant funders and funding opportunities to support continued growth and evolution of LifeLine’s core activities in public health, community programming and young people’s services
2. Identifying, researching and vetting business development opportunities in order to present to Senior Management Team
3. Generating new business leads through relationships with a range of funders and partners, including corporate contacts
4. Contributing to an active bid pipeline to ensure efficient and effective work, with a focus on quality, consistency and impact of submissions
5. Producing high quality, competitive funding proposals and tender submissions (typical values range from approximately £50,000 to £1 million)
6. Contributing to the bid production process, liaising with partners and external bid writers whilst ensuring input from relevant operational and technical managers
7. Supporting, through guidance and insight, the application of evidence and relevant project evaluation to the bid writing process and to organisational knowledge and expertise
8. Working with LifeLine’s finance team and operational managers to develop fully-costed project budgets and resourcing plans to submit to funders and commissioners as part of the tender process
9. Managing relationships with funding partners, delivery partners, stakeholders and external consultants to ensure LifeLine’s business interests and objectives are achieved and that we continue to build on our strong reputation for approachability, positivity, and being practically minded
10. Identifying and managing risk during the tender process to support successful project implementations and handover to operational leads
11. Working with project managers and operational leads to develop implementation plans to ensure management and resourcing requirements are met and key milestones achieved
12. Working closely with the Head of Finance and Business Development Manager to deliver LifeLine’s business and fundraising strategies
13. Contributing to the vision and values of LifeLine as a community focused organisation

Qualifications and Competency Requirement

Desirable:

• Qualification
  • Preferably educated to degree level and / or with research experience
• Experience
  • Previous experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategy in relation to public health / community programming and/or young people’s services
• Skills
  • Familiarity with the use of AI productivity tools to support bid and proposal writing
• Knowledge
  • Demonstrable knowledge of commercial, finance and market related requirements in the youth, community and public health sectors

Essential:

• Experience
  • At least two years proven track record of effective bid writing and bid management
• • Understanding and experience of business development within the voluntary sector
• • Experience of community or trust/grant fundraising

• Skills
  • Highly articulate with excellent writing & communication skills
• • Excellent analytical skills and the ability to distil and summarise information clearly and engagingly
• • Excellent research skills, including into government policy, and the ability to obtain and analyse relevant demographic and socio-economic information
• • Commercially astute and detail focused with negotiation skills
• • Resilience with the ability to manage multiple work tasks and work to non-negotiable deadlines
• • Self-motivated, solutions-oriented and flexible