Description
Company Overview:
Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting and engineering services worldwide. It supports government and commercial clients with innovative solutions focused on international development, climate mitigation and adaptation, environmental sustainability, biodiversity, conservation, land reform, infrastructure, urban development, transport, water, and resource management. With 27,000 associates worldwide in over 120 countries, Tetra Tech's capabilities span the entire project cycle.
Tetra Tech International Development Europe is Tetra Tech's European business unit focused on International Development. We are based in London with offices in Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, and the Netherlands. We deliver international development programmes focused on economic growth, governance and justice/security, and infrastructure, for clients such as the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the United Nations, the European Union, the European Investment Bank and other donors and funding agencies. We also have a strong in-house Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Practice consisting of 35 evaluators, statisticians, economists, social scientists, and research managers.
Over Values:
We are committed to maintaining business practices that honour and protect the dignity and integrity of everyone with whom the company conducts business, employs, and serves. As a leading international development organisation, we fully support continued progress and improvement within the development community to make development initiatives more effective. We are also committed to addressing various cross-cutting issues relevant to international development to ensure that all people can access and enjoy the benefits of our activities.
- We value our people: we support the development of our people, ensuring that the environments in which they work are fair, safe, and flexible.
- We deliver quality results: we go the extra mile to deliver value for our clients, impact for beneficiaries and a fair financial return for the company to grow sustainably.
- We collaborate effectively: we work authentically with our clients, beneficiaries and partners and strive to always communicate clearly and openly.
- We encourage creativity and innovation: we encourage entrepreneurial thinking and provide the freedom, support and investment for new ideas and initiatives.
- We operate with integrity: We will do the right thing, be honest and keep to our commitments.
Location: London
Flexible working available: Flexible-Working-Presence-with-a-Purpose-October-2022.pdf (tetratecheurope.com)
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.50 hours per week (Hybrid Working)
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary & Benefits
Job Overview:
Tetra Tech's Economic Growth and Infrastructure practice requires an experienced manager to play a leading role in the practice's work to identify and pursue new work opportunities from identification through to submission of winning bids. We have an excellent team of professionals across both infrastructure and economic development, but the team is presently fully deployed across delivery and is understaffed when it comes to growing the practice and responding effectively to new opportunities.
This role is pivotal to delivering practice growth. EGI can pursue a wide range of opportunities, either leading or subcontracting to another supplier. Working closely with the practice director and the leads on business development, the successful candidate will drive day-to-day business development planning and delivery, focusing on opportunities that play to our strengths and expertise.
Our principal client is and will continue to be the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). We also are a supplier to other donors, including EIB, EBRD and KfW, and look to diversify our client base where it makes commercial sense to do
Our principal client is and will continue to be the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). We also are a supplier to other donors, including EIB, EBRD, and KfW, and look to diversify our client base where it makes commercial sense to do so.
Main Duties:
- Identify and screen appropriate tender opportunities in FCDO and European donor markets for the EGI practice.
- Position for these tenders by negotiating appropriate consortium arrangements and managing prospective personnel.
- Manage the bid delivery process, collaborating with a team of writers and domain experts from the wider EGI team.
- Function as quality assurance on the bidding process and produce written sections and/or commercial propositions where required.
- Ensure all proposed tenders are economically viable within the Tetra Tech model.
- Consult within the firm and with the wider Business Development practice to ensure that the bidding process is optimised and lessons are shared broadly within the company.
- Capture and disseminate lessons learned from pursuits.
Aptitude and skills:
- Extensive current knowledge of the FCDO tender landscape and process.
- Demonstrable ability to position effectively for forthcoming tenders.
- Sound commercial judgement and an ability to understand Tetra Tech's financial model.
- Teamwork and an ability to work in a fluid environment with multiple senior stakeholders and manage bid resources.
- Excellent written English.
- Strong Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other relevant software packages
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to keep multiple balls in the air at the same time and manage a portfolio of pursuits.
- Decision-making ability and the ability to articulate decisions effectively.
Experience:
- Must have a proven track record of extensive experience in the International Development sector, preferably in Africa and Asia.
- Prior knowledge of the UK development market, the firms and NGOs participating in it and FCDO as a client.
- A record of successful delivery of winning bids to FCDO.
- Additional expertise in preparing successful tenders for other donors, particularly multi-laterals, European Commission donor agencies and national donor agencies in Europe, is a considerable advantage.
- Additional experience in delivering programmes for FCDO and other donors would be a considerable advantage.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:
Tetra Tech prides itself on a workplace culture that advances equality, diversity, and inclusion and ensures the workplace is free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, racism and hate speech of any form regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage, and civil partnerships. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for this role.
Think you have what it takes but are not sure you check every box? Research shows that while men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women often only apply when they meet every requirement. If you're passionate about what we're building, we look forward to hearing from you.
Disability Confident Employer:
Disability Confident is a UK government scheme where employers receive support to create and foster diverse and inclusive workplaces. We have self-identified as a registered disability confident participant.
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Safeguarding:
Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world's most marginalised groups.
Additional Information
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