Bid Writer

Are you looking for a role where your talents as an experienced and ambitious bid writing professional can benefit tens of thousands of families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people?

Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people – providing over 89,000 grants and services worth over £36 million in 2015/16.

As Bid Writer, reporting into the Head of Fundraising, your key responsibility will be to prepare and submit high quality grant applications and tender responses that enable Family Fund to retain and grow our service offer.

As part of a new team you will develop and maintain excellent knowledge of Family Fund services and build relationships with programme managers and services managers in order to research, design, write and submit detailed applications for funds to relevant grant-making bodies.

In addition to writing proposals of a high standard tailored to individual funders and meeting all necessary requirements, your other key responsibilities as Bid Writer include:

• Monitoring funding opportunities and developing a clear bid pipeline
• Collating new proposal content to form a bid library
• Preparing opportunity overviews for bid/ no bid decisions

Educated to degree level and with significant experience in bid writing, you have excellent research, writing and checking skills, and close attention to detail. Your influencing, writing style and exceptional document presentation skills compliment your proven ability to research and secure new funding opportunities. A first-class negotiator, listener and creative thinker, you’re a great team player, able to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.

In addition to superb organisational, planning and prioritising skills, as Bid Writer you can offer:

• Strengths in research analysis
• Project management experience
• Cross- organisational bid input support

This Bid Writer post is based in York with travel throughout the UK.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Andrew Harper, Director of Development and Engagement on 01904 571018.

Closing date for applications is 31 March 2017.

For more information on the Bid Writer role, please visit www.familyfund.org.uk/jobs

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