Job Description

About the business

Biodiversity Australia is an Indigenous owned, Environmental Management Consulting Business focused on building sustainable partners, economic management, and ecological balance. With the environmental industry becoming a strong focus across all sectors, Biodiversity Australia continues to expand with services offered across multiple states and more exciting opportunities in the future. Biodiversity Australia has been trading for more than 20 years and is in an exciting phase of its growth cycle within an industry that is flourishing.

Because of this growth, we have opened offices in multiple locations with our head office located on the Gold Coast and regional operations in Chinchilla, Toowoomba, Central and North Queensland, Northern NSW, and the Northern Territory.

About the opportunity

We are seeking a candidate with a minimum of 5 years bidding experience to join our pre-contracts team. The Strategic Bid Specialist is highly skilled, flexible, quick thinker who is extremely organised. Working within a fast-paced environment you will manage the end-to-end process for major tender submissions, with tailored response creation. This role involves juggling priorities, competing deadlines and collaboration within several business units, each with its own needs.

In this role, you will demonstrate:

• A high level of strategic thinking that can be converted into quality responses
• An ability to interpret complex requests and decipher the required actions
• Confidence to critically review and edit others written material
• Research skills and capacity to gather information with speed, accuracy, and attention to detail
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• MS Word, Teams, Excel, Adobe, PowerPoint, SharePoint skills
• Willingness to work with innovative tools to complete tasks

About you

To be successful in the role of Strategic Bid Specialist, you will have:

• Proven ability to write persuasively without hyperbole
• Willingness to learn, take on new challenges and do what is required to get the submission complete
• A strong team mentality as well as the ability to work autonomously
• Tertiary qualifications in advertising, creative writing, or similar are highly regarded
• Capability to adapt to change, can work well under pressure and persist toward goals despite obstacles
• Strong attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills

As part of your application, please include a 300-word bid response to “Describe your experience and capability in developing successful bids.”

The interview process will begin without delay, with an intention of onboarding the successful candidate immediately so please send in your application as soon as possible. Only applicants who have been short listed for an interview will be contacted.

Initial in-office training period will be required. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply.