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With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
World Vision works with the most vulnerable children, so they’re empowered to overcome poverty and injustice, and experience fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we serve alongside children –of all faiths and none –through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy in almost 100 countries.
With over 70 years of experience, our work with communities, donors, partners, and governments transforms lives and creates opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children –even in the toughest places.
Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.
The role
As the Commercial Bid Manager, you will lead the contract acquisition processes and strengthen WVUK’s ability to acquire commercial contracts from institutional funders. This will encompass both leading and supporting other Portfolio Managers in all acquisition elements from the coordination of pre-positioning to submission and contract negotiation. You will provide active guidance and support to other WV staff undertaking commercial contract acquisition.
This role will programme manage acquisition bringing together programme design, financial and commercial inputs, and risk management. You will work closely with the Senior Contracts Manager, WVUK Legal Counsel and finance colleagues to identify risks inherent in bids, contracts and sub contractual agreements.
We are keen to find a candidate with the following qualities, experience, and education:
- A graduate with experience of submitting commercial contracts and experience working with and developing and/or managing consortium partners.
- You will be a highly organised person, able to manage expectations and prioritise competing demands.
- You will be proactive and tenacious in identifying and pursuing new funding opportunities,
- You will know what it means to be commercially minded and are financially astute and risk aware, with keen risk management skills, you have been proven to possess a thorough approach to risk mitigation and management.
- You will have experience of supplier relations and meeting their technical and financial requirements and a familiarity and confidence in navigating relevant procurement and financial legislation.
- You will have strong relational, interpersonal, and capacity building skills.
- Work collaboratively across several key stakeholders and their respective teams within WVUK and the wider WV Global Partnership (Field Offices, Regional Offices and World Vision International (WVI)).
- Effectively engage and manage relationships with external networks, including consortium partners.
- Assess WVUK’s capability and capacity to engage in selected opportunities.
- Support in the delivery of training developed by the Senior Contracts Manager.
- Other areas as outlined in the Job Description.
As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).
We reserve the right to interview candidates and close the ad ahead of the closing date should a strong candidate be identified.
