Tender Support Manager

5 days ago

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom UKCEH Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Tender Support Manager to join our team at UKCEH. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing our tender support team, collaborating with our Research Contracts and Research Development teams, and working with leading global scientists to identify, pursue, and secure competitive income opportunities.

The Tender Support team plays a critical role in our success by identifying and securing funding opportunities, amounting to over £30M a year. This income enables us to pursue world-class research addressing environmental challenges and making a difference to environmental policies, commercial innovation, and conservation action globally.

The successful candidate will have a degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience, and a proven track record of supporting research grant, innovation awards, and contract funding applications. They will also have experience in provision of business data analytics and reporting, as well as a fundamental understanding of the research funding landscape.

The ideal candidate will be able to work in partnership and on their own initiative, with a clear understanding of the role of research support services and a strong commitment to delivering a high-quality professional service.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the Tender Support Team within the Research Development & Impact Function, and the allocation and balance of Tender Support Executive workloads and performance
  • Identification, validation, dissemination, and tracking of UKCEH relevant funding opportunities across public, private, academic, and third sectors
  • Provision of the tender support service supporting Researchers and Research Development Managers; leading the Team's delivery of coordinating the tender process, and non-technical aspects of bidding, optimising UKCEH's success rates and ensuring timely responses to tender deadlines
  • Provision of high-quality services through efficient procedures, documentation, and resources for researchers and responsible for the Team's delivery of the Quality Assurance customer feedback process
  • Monitor funders' policies and requirements, championing UKCEH compliance across UKCEH's Professional Services through appropriate policies, procedures, and interventions, thereby ensuring and evidencing eligibility for funding opportunities
  • Review of business-critical tenders and proposals in concert with Research Development Managers and Researchers, and provision of advice on funder evaluation criteria
  • Working with Research Development Managers, manage UKCEH's awarded pre-tender framework partnerships to optimise funding proposals therein
  • Routine provision of analytics, management information, and performance indicators of UKCEH's bidding pipeline, at an organisational and Science Area-level, and of future funder priorities and Calls
  • Maintenance of the tender information database and UKCEH financial system records, ensuring up-to-date and accurate information is recorded for all opportunities and bids
  • Support the Head of Research Development & Impact in annual income forecasting at a Customer Group-level, informing UKCEH's 5-year business plan, and routine monitoring and reporting of variances against underpinning funding assumptions
  • Ensure the professional training and development of the Team, and leads/contributes to in-house training of researchers in the development of successful proposals

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