Bid Manager

Location: Home based in UK with expected travel.

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people's economic wellbeing.Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life.In the past five years, we've supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We're part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

Your Role

As Bid Manager, you will lead the full lifecycle of high-value and strategic bid opportunities across a range of government-funded and commercial programmes. Reporting to the Head of Bids, you will manage the end-to-end process including bid planning, team coordination, content authoring, and submission.

This role will focus on multiple funding strands, including but not limited to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Education (DfE), and Local Authority funding, requiring a nuanced understanding of varying commissioner expectations, delivery models, and compliance frameworks.

The successful candidate must also demonstrate experience in leveraging artificial intelligence systems within the tendering process, including prompt engineering to optimise outputs and support efficient, high-quality submissions.

Your Responsibilities

• Project manage bids from opportunity qualification through to submission and handover, ensuring timelines, quality standards, and compliance requirements are met.
• Author and edit compelling narrative responses, ensuring alignment to commissioner specifications, win themes, and Fedcap's value proposition.
• Lead and facilitate kick-off meetings, storyboarding sessions, and progress reviews to align teams around strategy and delivery plans.
• Engage with internal subject matter experts across operations, finance, compliance, delivery, and partnerships to gather relevant input for content creation.
• Develop and maintain structured bid plans, responsibilities matrixes (RACI), and risk registers throughout the bid lifecycle.
• Maintain oversight of commercial elements including solution design, pricing narratives, and delivery models.
• Collaborate with partner organisations and subcontractors to incorporate external content and commercial contributions.
• Integrate and manage AI-based tools into the bid development workflow to enhance efficiency and quality.

Your Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading end-to-end bids in the public or third sector, ideally across employability, education, health, or justice contracts.
• Strong bid writing skills, with a portfolio of successful responses authored for large-scale tenders.
• Project management capability, including planning, coordination, and delivery of multiple simultaneous bids.
• Excellent written communication-able to simplify complex information and tailor tone/style to varied audiences.
• Highly organised and resilient, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and evolving priorities.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders, SMEs, and partner organisations in bid development.
• Practical experience using AI systems to support bid development processes.
• Strong knowledge of prompt engineering and its application in AI-driven content generation for tenders.
• Knowledge of public sector procurement practices and frameworks (e.g., DWP, ESFA, MoJ).
• Experience in collaborative bids or consortia.

As well as receiving dedicated health and wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme for you and your family, we'll provide you with very clear stages of accredited development and learning. Not only that, we offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Minimum 33 days' holiday entitlement and a pension contribution up to 5%
• Monthly benefits scheme worth up to an additional £500 a year
• Free life assurance cover, totaling four times your annual salary
• And much more

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability