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Help support our members and their families who are diagnosed or going through diagnosis of a rare neurological condition.
Provide support to those affected by a life changing diagnosis at a very difficult time and make a difference that counts!
Myaware is a charity dedicated to ensuring that all people living with or alongside myasthenia can live well, now and in the future. Due to demands on the service we are looking to expand our crucial support team which has provided an exciting opportunity to join the team.
You will be working with our dedicated support team to advise and support our members, over the phone, via email, in online sessions and at conferences and support groups in the community. Providing a listening ear and advice on living with myasthenia is essential as they navigate their diagnosis journey and learn how to live well with the condition.
Delivering support and advice for our members also involves using our CRM database and proactively maintaining and increasing our membership. It requires ongoing essential awareness raising of our work through annual initiatives and campaigns and through growing relationships with Healthcare Professionals and other neurological organisations.
Who are we?
Myaware is the only charity in the UK dedicated solely to the care and support of people affected by myasthenia.
We are working hard to raise awareness of myasthenia, as it is a little-known condition. We provide support for people with myasthenia and their families, whilst offering advice and tips for living with the condition.
We also fund the research that brings us closer to finding a cure as well as funding specialists nurses and advisors.
Members of myaware have full access to a wide range of support services and events including our specialist welfare rights advisor.
Myaware supports people with myasthenia and their families. We campaign for better medical services for people with myasthenia and work to inform medical professionals.
The myasthenias are a group of neuromuscular conditions. They are rare but also manageable and can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender or nationality. Myasthenia gravis, ocular myasthenia and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome are autoimmune conditions whereas congenital myasthenic syndrome is caused by an inherited genetic fault. It is thought that there are approximately 20,000 people currently living with myasthenia in the UK.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Perkbox account (global benefits and rewards platform)
- Group Life Assurance after 6 months of service
- NEST workplace pension scheme
- Free inhouse staff benefits and welfare advice
- Investment in your personal and professional development
- Annual salary review
Discretionary £1,000 increase after successful completion of probationary period
Application Instructions
Candidates should submit their CV and tailored covering letter by 23:30 on Friday 8th May 2026
Initial screening chats will take place on Thursday 14th May 2026
Interviews will be week commencing 25th May 2026
Interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams
Applications submitted without a tailored cover letter will not be considered.
This post, due to its nature, duties and responsibilities, will be subject to an enhanced check by the DBS. This is funded by Myaware.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Bid Coordinator
Contracted Days: [5 days per week]
About Offploy:
Offploy is a social enterprise and charity committed to creating a fairer society by helping individuals with convictions, or at risk of offending, lead crime-free lives. Founded in 2016 by an ex-prisoner, we have supported over 5,000 people with tailored services that build skills, confidence, and opportunity. With team members who have lived experience in the justice system, we’re uniquely positioned to deliver impactful, life-changing services that make communities safer.
Role Purpose
To support the Development Function by managing opportunity research, bid compliance, and submission processes, ensuring a high-quality, organised and proactive pipeline of commissioned, grant and framework opportunities.
The Bid Coordinator will play a critical role in maintaining bid governance, strengthening pre-tender intelligence, and ensuring timely, compliant submissions, while providing light-touch writing support where required.
Key Responsibilities
1. Opportunity Monitoring & Market Intelligence
- Monitor procurement portals (e.g. Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, DPS platforms, local authority portals) independently to identify relevant opportunities not yet captured in Stotles
- Use Stotles to its full capability for pre-bid market intelligence, including commissioner profiling, spend analysis, contract expiry tracking, award pattern analysis, and commissioning trend identification
- Flag potential opportunities to the Senior Bid Manager for qualification, supporting the maintenance of a 12-month forward pipeline
- Track live frameworks, grants and pipeline intelligence aligned to strategic priorities
- Maintain Bids, Grants and Awards in Salesforce (ensuring accurate stage progression
- Conduct early-stage opportunity research including:
- Contract history and incumbent analysis
- Buyer behaviour and award trends
- Estimated contract value benchmarking
- Local delivery landscape and competitor mapping
- Prepare opportunity summaries to inform bid/no-bid discussions
2. Pre-Bid & Qualification Support
- Support bid/no-bid qualification processes
- Draft opportunity summaries for internal review
- Identify key risks (financial, delivery, TUPE, geographic, partnership requirements)
- Coordinate clarification questions where required
3. Bid Compliance & Submission Management
- Lead on completion of Selection Questionnaires (SQ), PQQs and standard compliance sections
- Maintain and update core compliance responses (policies, certifications, insurance, accounts, etc.)
- Ensure all attachments are current and correctly formatted
- Manage portal uploads and submission checks
- Conduct final compliance reviews before submission
- Maintain submission records and audit trail
4. Bid Toolkit & Content Library Management
- Maintain and update the Bid Toolkit (case studies, CVs, policies, impact data, boilerplate responses)
- Ensure evidence packs (e.g. wellbeing, confidence, lived-experience delivery) remain current
- Coordinate with Operations to gather up-to-date impact data and testimonials
- Version control all key documents
- Ensure alignment between toolkit content and organisational messaging
5. Writing & Development Support
- Provide light-touch drafting support for lower-risk questions
- Adapt standard responses to specific tenders
- Support editing, formatting and proofreading of submissions
- Assist in formatting submissions for clarity and consistency
- Support post-award review documentation and lessons learned logs
6. Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Support quarterly pipeline reporting
- Track win rates and conversion trends
- Log feedback from unsuccessful bids and support thematic analysis
7. Repeatable Tasks by Cadence
Daily
- Check procurement portals and Stotles alerts for new or updated opportunities
- Monitor active submission deadlines and flag any risks to the Senior Bid Manager
- Update Salesforce with any status changes or new intelligence
Weekly
- Conduct a structured Stotles review: run commissioner and keyword searches, review expiring contracts, and log any new intelligence relevant to the pipeline
- Prepare and circulate a pipeline update summary ahead of any scheduled development team check-ins
- Review and progress any live clarification questions or portal correspondence
- Check and update bid toolkit items flagged as requiring refresh (policies, CVs, compliance documents)
Monthly
- Conduct a full pipeline review with the Senior Bid Manager, including stage progression, upcoming decision gates, and opportunities requiring early research
- Review compliance document expiry dates and initiate renewals where required (insurance certificates, policies, accounts)
- Gather updated impact data and outcomes from Operations/Salesforce for use in live bids and store in Bid Toolkit
- Update Salesforce with any new bid outcomes (awards, losses, withdrawals)
Quarterly
- Conduct a full audit of the bid toolkit: identify gaps, flag outdated content, and coordinate updates with the relevant teams
- Review Stotles usage and market intelligence gathered over the quarter; identify any commissioning patterns or emerging opportunities to inform the development strategy
Person Specification
Essential
- Strong organisational and deadline management skills
- Experience working with procurement portals
- High attention to detail, particularly in compliance documentation
- Ability to analyse information and summarise key points clearly
- Strong written communication skills
Desirable
- Experience in bid coordination, tender administration or similar role
- Experience within employability, social justice, or public sector contracts
- Familiarity with Salesforce or CRM systems
- Experience supporting SQ/PQQ completion
- Understanding of public procurement processes in the UK
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Contract type
Permanent
Location
Whittington
Hours
37.5 hrs Full time, site based
Annual salary
D1 £31,168.36 to D3 £38,129.42
Review date
19/04/2026
The postholder integrates people, place and process by connecting operational delivery with governance and strategic oversight; to protect patient dignity through environmental standards, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive patient and family experience assurance.
The aim of the role is to ultimately ensure safe, compliant, dignified and high-performing environments that actively support patient care delivery and staff workplace experience.
The role provides managerial oversight of the Clinical Facilities Coordinator and Support Facilities Coordinator, ensuring clarity of standards, regulatory compliance, cost control and service resilience.
In summary, the Facilities & Patient Experience Manager is accountable for:
- Safe, compliant and well-coordinated Facilities Services.
- Regulatory readiness across environmental, equipment and hospitality functions.
- Positive patient and family environmental experience and subsequent feedback channels.
- Performance and development of Facilities Coordinators.
- Contract oversight and cost-effective service delivery.
- Continuous improvement across the Facilities function.
Key to the quality of service we provide, this role requires a proactive approach, visible, hands-on leadership, emotional intelligence and a strong delivery mindset. The postholder must be comfortable operating within a hospice environment where compassion, discretion and professional standards must coexist.
Subsequently, success in this role depends on presence, accountability and the ability to translate policies into consistently delivered day-to-day practice.
Qualifications
Essential
·Recognised Health & Safety qualification (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate).
·Evidence of formal training in Infection Prevention & Control principles.
·GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths.
Desirable
·IWFM (Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management) Level 4 or Level 5 qualification.
·Safeguarding Level 3 (or willingness to complete).
·Formal leadership/management qualification (e.g. ILM Level 5, CMI Level 5).
·Qualification or formal training in Quality Improvement methodologies.
·Contract management training.
·First Aid at Work
Knowledge and experience
Essential
·Proven experience managing operational service teams.
·Strong understanding of facilities management within a healthcare or regulated environment.
·Knowledge of CQC standards relating to safety, dignity and environment.
·Understanding of infection prevention, asset governance and stock control principles.
·Experience overseeing service contracts and performance monitoring.
·Awareness of safeguarding and public-space risk management.
Values
·Exhibits our hospice values and behaviours
Skills
Essential
·Highly people-oriented with strong interpersonal skills.
·Practical mindset - focuses on solutions rather than process for its own sake.
·Able to provide supportive but firm supervision to staff and volunteers.
·Comfortable having difficult conversations when standards are not met.
Personal Attributes
·Visible, hands-on leadership style.
·Strong emotional intelligence and ability to operate in sensitive environments.
·Calm and decisive under pressure.
·Ability to balance compassion with regulatory discipline.
·Strong accountability mindset.
·Confident in holding others to performance standards.
·Analytical thinker able to interpret feedback data and translate into action.
·Excellent communicator across clinical and corporate audience.
Other requirements
·Valid driving licence
·Eligibility to work in the UK
·Please note that St Giles Hospice does not hold a sponsorship licence and is therefore unable to accept sponsorship requests
Just so you know:
This post is subject to a Disclose and Barring Service (DBS) check.
We may review applications before the application review date, however, if you apply after the application review date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role; this may be earlier than the closing date.
If you have not heard within 14 days of the application close date, then please consider that your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
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