Lead Developer for Our Collaborative Funding Offer

The Service Provider will have an excellent knowledge of what makes for successful collaborations between charities and other organisations, and the role of funders in supporting these.

The Service Provider will work full time (37 hours per week) at The Fund, initially on a five month contract, with the option to extend up to an additional 3 months, and will lead on;

Developing our approach to collaborating with other funders effectively, including ensuring we understand our priorities for collaboration with others and different ways in which we can collaborate, have the right governance and resourcing in place to develop and agree collaborations, develop the skills that we need to manage collaborations effectively, and raise awareness amongst other funders of the opportunity to work more closely with us.

Developing our collaborative funding offer, enabling us to offer funding and support to place-based and thematic collaborations. This will include further development work on the aims and outcomes of this product, how it fits with the rest of our portfolio and our UK funding, the process for receiving, assessing and making decisions on ideas for collaborations, and working with the communications and local teams to raise awareness of this product.

Supporting and developing our staff, ensuring that they can develop the skills and knowledge to make effective judgements when assessing, recommending decisions and managing collaborations.

The Contract is for an initial term of 5 months with an option to extend for up to 3months at the maximum. However, BIG will expect to receive bids for completion of the work in 5months.

Additional information: If you require clarification with respect to the contents of this ITT or this ITT process, please email procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk. Questions or requests for clarification must be submitted prior to the closing date for the submission of questions which is 12noon on the 21st of March 2017.

The Fund will upload responses to clarification questions on Contracts Finder. It is the bidder's responsibility to check and monitor this site regularly inorder to receive all responses to clarification questions.

Bidders must submit an electronic copy of their tender submission in a zip folder to procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk , no later than 12.00 Noon on 28th March 2017. The subject line should be as follows "TENDER REF NO. BIG001-0832 "