About the Role
As a Tender Writer, you will lead and develop compelling, high-quality content for tender submissions in a fast-paced, high-throughput environment. This role focuses on showcasing Assure’s Employee Assistance Program capabilities for new business pursuits with government and corporate customers, working within the Sydney-based APM Tender Team.
Responsibilities
- Analyse tender documents to identify opportunities to be pursued
- Assess tender requirements, including risks, evaluation criteria, differentiators and win themes
- Lead Assure’s tender responses end to end, ensuring compliance, accuracy and alignment to customer needs
- Develop clear, persuasive and outcomes focused proposals for EAP and workplace mental health services
- Engage with clinical, operational, consulting and digital SMEs to obtain high value content and verify service detail
- Prioritise and manage multiple tenders concurrently, maintaining quality standards and meeting tight deadlines
- Ensure all written content reflects Assure’s value proposition, tone of voice and strategic direction
- Maintain and strengthen Assure’s bid content library, including case studies, methodologies, CVs and evidence-based claims
- Contribute to continuous improvement across bid planning, processes, templates and governance
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in bid or proposal writing (EAP, psychology, human services or workplace mental health preferred but not essential), or holds qualifications in Journalism, Business, Communications or other relevant disciplines
- Passion for high-throughput tender production and submission and the ability to manage competing priorities to successful completion
- Experience and skill in the use of generative AI tools (Copilot preferred but not essential) to aid the assessment of, and content development for, winning tenders with tight deadlines
- Ability to accurately edit others’ written material and craft clear, concise and engaging content
- Strong planning and organisational skills to support process improvement and efficiency goals
- Thrives in a collaborative environment but also has a high degree of self-motivation and can work unsupervised
- Adaptable to changing timelines and focus
- Advanced Microsoft Office and document formatting skills
Skills
- Persuasive writing
- Strategic mindset
- Bid writing
- Proposal writing
- Generative AI tools (Copilot preferred)
- Editing
- Content development
- Planning
- Organisational skills
- Collaboration
- Self-motivation
- Adaptability
- Microsoft Office
- Document formatting
Location
- Sydney
- Remote (when required)
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Demonstrated experience in bid or proposal writing
Education Level
- Qualifications in Journalism, Business, Communications or other relevant disciplines
Benefits
- Access to APM’s Rewards program, Momentous
- Flexibility
- Ability to work from home when required
About the Company
- APM is a global human services leader with 16,000+ professionals across 11 countries.
- Our mission is simple yet powerful: to enable better lives.
- We offer room to grow, support to succeed, and a community that cares deeply about what we do—and how we do it.
Equal Opportunity
- We are strengthened by diversity.
- We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.
- We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures including indigenous peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people with a disability.
- We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity.
- We welcome all people to join our team, including Veterans, people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity.
- We believe each person’s uniqueness makes us even better at the work we do.
