Partnerships Proposal Writer

We’re looking for a Strategic Partnerships Proposal Writer with experience to join an important charity helping vulnerable children across the world.
 

Position: Strategic Partnerships Proposal Writer

Location: Milton Keynes/Hybrid

Hours: Full-time - 36.5 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £36,576 per annum + good range of benefits

Closing date: 23^rd January 2024

About the role:

As the Strategic Partnerships Proposal Writer, you will collaborate with colleagues across our UK, Field Offices, and WV International, engaging in technical, financial, and program management areas. Forge connections with external partners, donors, and NGOs to create timely, high-value bids and proposals for diverse opportunities. If you're passionate about impactful change and thrive in a collaborative environment, join our mission.

Key responsibilities will include:

Bid Initiation:

• Collaborate closely with the SPD lead to craft program objectives aligning with the WV Field Office and affected communities' needs as well as the SPD donor's requirements.
• Contribute actively to discussions and streamline information gathering for informed decision-making.

Bid Development:

• Spearhead the coordination of diverse teams involved in the proposal and bid development, orchestrating timelines among various teams, Field Offices, external partners, and consultants.
• Develop a comprehensive bid development plan with realistic timeframes, ensuring clarity in roles, responsibilities, and deadlines.
• Ensure adherence to the organisation’s acquisition processes, managing Go/No-Go decisions, proposal workshops, and obtaining timely stakeholder agreement.
• Craft bid materials, encompassing expressions of interest, concept notes, proposals, capacity statements, risk assessments, budgets, logical frameworks, and monitoring and evaluation plans, collaborating closely with technical teams.
• Articulate a clear theory of change, emphasise value for money, and define cost recovery requirements within proposals.
• Deliver high-quality, contextually suitable, industry-standard submissions that effectively cater to needs.

Acquisition Lesson Learning:

• Maintain an accessible library of past concepts and proposals for reference.
• Collect and disseminate best practices and insights regarding proposal success, donor requisites, and program intricacies, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Conduct regular learning reviews to refine future proposal designs based on gathered insights and experiences.

About you:

As our Strategic Partnerships Proposal Writer, you'll be at the helm of an exhilarating opportunity, helping to steer the submission process to fulfil the organisation’s Institutional Funding income requirements.

Essential Criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field as a minimum qualification.
• Profound grasp of humanitarian and/or development theory, practice, and discourse, encompassing standards crucial to quality, accountability, and value for money within the aid sector.
• Demonstrated success in securing grants and contracts from bilateral, and multilateral donors, trusts, and foundations.
• Proven history of crafting compelling proposals that secure funding from Trusts, Foundations, and Corporate, and Philanthropic donors. Sound familiarity with proposal design formats and tools, including budgeting, reporting, and logical frameworks.
• Experience in establishing and nurturing robust stakeholder relationships, particularly with donors, with a preference for exposure to remote overseas work environments.
• Familiarity with initiating and negotiating partnerships between organizations.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with technical approaches and tools such as the theory of change, monitoring frameworks, and payment-by-results mechanisms.
• Track record of evaluating proposals and delivering high-quality, insightful analytical feedback.

About the organisation:

The organisation is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy they’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. As a Christian organisation, everything they do is motivated by their faith as they strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

As a child-focused organisation, they are committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

The organisation is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and they shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. They will be requesting you to complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see: The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme

Please note the organisation can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture, and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

You may also have experience in areas such as: Relational Grants Manager, Grants Officer,  Trusts Fundraising Officer, Foundations Fundraising Manager, Trusts and Grants Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Manager, Trusts Fundraiser, Trusts and Grants Fundraiser, Fundraising Partnerships Manager, Trusts, Foundations, Supporter Engagement, Bid Writing, Bid Writer, Bids, Bids and Tender, Key Relationship Manager, Trusts Executive, Trusts and Grants, Senior Trusts, Senior Trusts and Foundations, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.