Senior Bid Writer
Location: London, Hybrid
Your Role:
QA Ltd, the UK’s leading provider of digital skills, apprenticeships, and technical training, is seeking an experienced Senior Bid Writer to lead the development of high-quality tender responses for UK Government Departments, agencies, and public sector bodies.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in securing large-scale learning and training contracts by producing compelling, compliant, and evidence-led bid submissions. Working closely with subject matter experts, sales, delivery, finance, and senior stakeholders, you will translate QA’s solutions and value proposition into winning responses aligned with government priorities and evaluation criteria.
Key Responsibilities:
Bid Leadership & Development
- Lead the end-to-end writing of competitive tenders and frameworks for UK Government Departments (e.g. Crown Commercial Service, MoD, HMRC, DWP. Home Office, DfE, Cabinet Office, agencies and ALBs).
- Analyse Invitation to Tender (ITT), SQ, and framework documentation to ensure full compliance and scoring optimisation.
- Own and develop written responses for quality questions, including methodology, delivery models, quality assurance, social value, equality, sustainability, and risk management.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with internal stakeholders including delivery, curriculum, quality, finance, sales, legal, and senior leadership to gather content and shape responses.
- Facilitate and contribute to bid kick-off meetings, storyboarding sessions, and content reviews.
- Challenge inputs constructively and ensure responses remain customer-focused, persuasive, and compliant.
Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
- Review and edit bid submissions to ensure clarity, consistency, tone, and alignment with evaluation criteria.
- Manage and maintain bid content libraries, case studies, and standard responses.
- Capture bid feedback and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement in bid strategy and win rates.
Your Experience and Skills:
Essential:
- Significant experience (typically 5+ years) as a Bid Writer or Senior Bid Writer within the UK public sector.
- Proven track record of writing successful tender responses for UK Government learning, skills, education, or training contracts.
- Strong understanding of UK public procurement regulations, frameworks, and evaluation methodologies.
- Experience responding to contracts with values ranging from £1m to £100m+.
Desirable:
- Experience bidding for apprenticeships, bootcamps, adult skills, digital training, or workforce development contracts.
- Familiarity with Crown Commercial Service (CCS) frameworks and Department for Education funding programmes.
- Experience mentoring junior bid writers or leading bid workstreams.
Skills Required:
- Exceptional written communication skills with the ability to write persuasively, clearly, and concisely.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret complex tender requirements and scoring criteria.
- Ability to translate technical or educational solutions into benefit-led, outcomes-focused narratives.
- High attention to detail with excellent proofreading and editing capability.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple bids under tight deadlines.
Wellbeing & benefits
Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why we offer benefits designed to help you recharge and thrive, including:
- 27 days Annual Leave (4 days used for the festive closure) plus Bank Holidays
- Holiday Buying scheme
- Medicash plan, Wellhub, Cycle to Work scheme
- Private Medical Insurance at corporate rates
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Discounts Benefit Hub
- 3 Development days
- 2 Charity days per year
- Pension Scheme
- Early Friday Finish at 4pm
Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Orperhaps you’d like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.
Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual orientation, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the different perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee that all applicants with a disability who meet the role criteria will progress to the next stage of the process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
A little about QA
At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners in the last 3 years.
Our Mission:
We teach the critical AI, technology, digital and Human skills needed to transform and succeed in a changing world.We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solutions draw from deep expertise across Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, Self-paced Learning and Blended Learning.
You can find out more about us at https://www.qa.com/about/careers/
