Business Development Consultant
CurrentUK market Business Development lead for the Policy & Research and Programme Management business units. Providing support to the leads for the European and International markets. Assisting with project delivery as Project Assistant.Responsibilities of the role:• UK market tender lead for Policy & Research and Programme Management Unit leading on tenders/bids/proposals submitted to UK Government Departments and other UK institutions.• EU market tender assistant for Policy & Research supporting the EU market leads with tenders/bids/proposals submitted to the European Commission and other European institutions.• Supporting with the delivery of projects/ project assistant.• Largely qualitative research including desk reviews, telephone screening, interview write ups, organisation of research tools, and other project assistant-related tasks including organising interviews and fieldwork.• Leading on Due Diligence through the creation and maintenance of a database.• Producing content for proposals including drafts of non-technical chapters.• Identifying and sourcing external experts to fulfil tender requirements, tailoring and editing their CVs and pen profiles to meet the technical and professional capacity criteria as set by potential clients.• Training junior colleagues and new starters, having created training materials for UK tender support and implementing a new starters process.Project experience as Project Assistant or Grants Assessor:• Violence Reduction Units (Home Office)• Serious Violence Duty (Home Office)• Family Routes Study: Growing up in adoptive and Special Guardianship families (Department for Education)• Childminders Grant Management Scheme (Department for Education)• Erasmus+ Outside of my core responsibilities: Chair of the Ecorys UK Works Council, co-Coordinator of the Women's Network, and member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, and the Climate Neutral Task Force.
