Business Development Manager (Bids and Tenders)

Are you a confident business development professional with a successful track-record securing income from bids and tenders in the public sector?

Do you want to use your skills and experience as Business Development Manager (Bids and Tenders) to help an award-winning charity to grow with a clear ambition to support even more people with caring responsibilities and advocacy needs?

Location: Hybrid between home, office and occasion travel across North-West
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week, or 4 days considered
Salary: £38,750 per annum
Benefits: 25 days increasing to 30 with length of service + additional Xmas closure and birthday, 5% employer pension contribution, investment in training and development

About the charity

n-compass wants to improve the lives of vulnerable people across the North of England, by delivering a range of Advocacy, Health and Wellbeing, Carers and Counselling services. Their values inspire them to make a difference and enhance life opportunities for adults and young people across local communities by being:

professional, responsive, innovative, dynamic and empowering.

n-compass is a great place to work, and in 2024 they received recognition as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women, one of the Best Workplaces in the Charity & Not-for-Profit Sector and in the Healthcare Sector. They truly understand and value the importance of employee well-being, strong communication & team work, celebrating success and learning from each other.

About the role

You're already a self-motivated and passionate business development specialist, able to support expansion of the organisation's reach through local authority tenders and grant applications.

You'll play a pivotal role in identifying funding opportunities, developing tender preparation strategies, and overseeing quality tender submissions.

You understand the need for high-quality local intelligence and know how to gather information from academic research, local stakeholder engagement and internal collaboration.

You foster partnerships both inside and outside of the organisation and are committed to co-production.

Reporting to the Business Development Director, you'll play a pivotal role in developing a long-term business development pipeline, identifying areas for development and upgrading systems/processes to enhance the organisation's competitive standing.

About you

You're a highly motivated individual. with a proven track-record in producing high quality tender submissions.

Through the selection process, you'll show us how you manage these important elements of the role:

• Experience in writing tenders, bids and grant applications
• The ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting priorities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong research skills and the ability to learn/know an organisation, what makes it unique and special, and how to demonstrate this through bid writing

If reading this advert has made you think 'this just has to be my next job', then we'd love you to hear from you.

Please send a copy of your profile or CV to Amelia Lee at Charity People as the first step.

Deadline: Only because this role has been previously advertised, we will be meeting candidates on a rolling basis. If this disadvantages you in any way at all, please let Amelia know and she'll do her best to make sure that you don't miss out.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.