Bid Director

at  HyperionDev

ABOUT US

HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of ‘coding bootcamps’ in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook) which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.
We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK’s Department for Education who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS).
We’re backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale up tech business join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced and versatile Bid Director to join our team. You will be responsible for managing the Bid team to identify and secure bids, acting as a subject matter expert when discussing the approach to the tender response and working side by side with the various specialists in the relevant teams.
You will work closely with The Head of Strategy and the Partnerships Team to organise and set the strategy for bid applications and planning capacity locally and internationally, with a focus on raising the quality of bid submissions and challenges.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading a team of bid managers and writers to identify and secure bids
• Organising and setting the strategy for bid applications and planning capacity to keep up with bid submissions across Australia, France, Spain, USA, Canada, and the UK
• Creating a strategy to raise the quality of bid submissions and challenges
• Working closely with internal and external counsel to challenge bids and procurement processes, where relevant