Established in 2018, RCI Group brings together businesses that improve people’s lives by advancing outcomes across health, justice and social care. We are a leading provider in the UK, driving quality and growth through a tech-enabled service platform and an ambitious expansion strategy, all underpinned by strong operational delivery and shared values.

Across the Group, we are united by our values of Respect, Courage and Impact, and by a mission to deliver better outcomes for individuals and better value for commissioners.

The Role

We are recruiting a Bid Writer to join our Business Development function, based in Stevenage.

This is a hands-on role supporting the development of high quality tender submissions across the organisation. You will play a key part in producing compelling written responses, ensuring submissions are well structured, compliant, and aligned to evaluation criteria.

Working closely with senior leaders, clinical teams and operational colleagues, you will help bring together the right evidence, service detail and narrative to support winning bids.

Key Responsibilities

As Bid Writer, you will be responsible for supporting bid activity across the organisation, including:

Bid Writing and Content Development

• Writing, editing and refining high quality bid responses tailored to commissioner and specification requirements
• Ensuring responses are clear, persuasive, evidence-based and compliant with tender instructions
• Aligning content to evaluation criteria, scoring methodology and submission requirements
• Supporting the development of case studies, service descriptions and supporting narrative content
• Maintaining strong attention to detail and consistency across submissions

Bid Coordination and Workflow Support

• Supporting the planning and coordination of bids from opportunity identification through to submission
• Assisting with bid kick-off meetings, solutioning workshops, challenge sessions and review stages
• Coordinating input from subject matter experts and operational contributors across the business
• Helping to maintain bid trackers, timelines and milestone documentation
• Supporting tender portal activity and assisting with electronic submissions

Clarifications and Compliance

• Logging, managing and coordinating Clarification Questions accurately and promptly
• Ensuring all bid responses follow internal governance processes and review cycles
• Supporting document control, version management and submission readiness checks

Continuous Improvement

• Capturing lessons learned following submissions and contributing to improvements
• Supporting the development of bid templates, tools and a bid library
• Conducting regular opportunity sweeps of tender portals such as Find a Tender

About You

This role will suit someone who enjoys writing, structure and working to deadlines. You will be organised, proactive, and confident working with a range of stakeholders across a fast-paced organisation.

You will bring:

• Experience in bid writing, tender writing, proposal writing or similar commercial writing roles
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce high quality, compelling submissions
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• A high level of attention to detail and a compliance focused mindset
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders and cross functional teams

Experience within healthcare, public sector, justice, social care or other regulated environments is highly desirable, along with familiarity with procurement portals and commissioner led tendering.

Why Join RCI Group?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation with purpose, where your work directly supports the delivery of vital services across the UK. You will be part of a supportive Business Development team and contribute to bids that create real impact for individuals, communities and commissioners.

Flexibility

Bid activity can be cyclical and deadlines are fixed, so flexibility is important during peak periods.