Tender Administrator

The Role

The Tender Administrator role is a full-time 37.5hrs a week role (1-year fixed term), which plays a key supporting role within our wider business development team.

We are looking for someone motivated, organised and efficient who shares our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.  Your excellent administrative skills and great communication skills are the key things you will bring to this role – previous experience of either business development or the charitable sector is not required.  

You will be responsible for collating and circulating key information across the organisation, communicating with procurement teams, submitting clarification questions and confirming attendance at events.

As part of the Tenders Team you will also be responsible for the maintenance of our core information sources, systems and processes. Ensuring they remain up to date and actively contributing to their ongoing development.

Change Grow Live offers flexible working arrangements, including:

• Hybrid working, a combination of an office base in the centre of Brighton and remote/home working to suit (more office based during induction period)
• Job Share option available.

Full Time Salary: £25,077 - £27,132.98

Hours: Full Time, 37.5h per week

Contract Type: 12 months Fixed Term 

Location: Brighton

Interviews will be held w/c 5^th January 2026.

For further information please contact Suzy Gerrans 07741 900525 or suzy.gerrans@cgl.org.uk. 

The Organisation

Change Grow Live’s Tenders Team is part of our wider National Business Development Team, responsible for finding opportunities, coordinating the tender process and submitting all responses for the organisation.

As one of the UK’s largest charities, Change Grow Live provides a range of services including community and prison substance misuse, criminal justice, children and young people’s and housing/homelessness. 

Joining us means being part of a well-established and successful team, and offers the opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge and experience whilst working with great people from across our organisation. 

What are Tenders?

Change Grow Live doesn’t raise money through fundraising. Instead, most of our funding comes from Local Authorities. These authorities must run fair competitions to choose who provides their services. Our Tenders Team finds these opportunities and supports the whole process, from spotting a new opportunity through to the completion and submission of the requested documents and final outcome.

About You

You’ll be a confident and competent communicator with strong organisational and time management skills.

You’ll either be an experienced administrator, or have relevant, transferable skills, able to communicate key information quickly and clearly. You will also have experience of maintaining central databases and contribute to their development.

You’ll be confident at navigating your way around websites and online procurement portals.

You’ll be proactive and solution focused, keen to contribute to systems development and open to both giving and receiving feedback. 

You are genuinely interested to learn more about the people we work with and the work we do. 

You are more than comfortable with IT and technology, and you are excited to discover new ways of applying these technologies – you want to share this enthusiasm with others.  

You’ll share our passion for our values and mission, and you’ll be ready to work hard to achieve these. 

Above all, you’ll want to use your skills and experience to support and contribute to winning tenders for services that help people to make positive changes in their lives. 

Why work for Change Grow Live  

We put our values into action, and trust and believe in our staff.

We support our staff to develop and grow. You’ll join a diverse team which welcomes new ideas and ways of working, and you’ll receive structured support, training and coaching to help you to progress in your career.   

We have an office base in central Brighton and also offer flexible working options including working from home.

We want our workforce to represent the diversity of the people and communities we work with. We pride ourselves on an inclusive and supportive workplace, evidenced through our Investors in People Silver Award and Stonewall Silver Award 2023. 

We’re happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that you need to be successful. We do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. Please let us know in your application or at any stage of the process if you would like to explore these options. 

Benefits: 

• Structured training, development, mentoring and progression opportunities  
• The option to work from home for some of the week 
• Wellbeing support, including an employee assistance programme and an hour each week for wellbeing activities of your choice (find out more here) as well as access to our staff benefits and discounts platform.

Before you apply 

In the application portal, there’s a section called ‘how you meet the criteria for the role’. This is your chance to tell us about why you’re a good fit for this job – we won’t be able to consider your application unless it’s filled in. Please explain how you meet each of the person specification criteria (listed at the end of the job description). Use clear examples of your experience (this link contains some useful guidance). As guidance, written statements should not exceed 1,000 words. You can address multiple criteria together where you think it makes sense. 

We encourage applications from individuals who may not meet every requirement but are excited about the role. We value lived experience of substance use, homelessness, and/or multiple disadvantages. 

We’re a Disability Confident Committed employer. We’ll offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for this job. Please confirm in the ‘how you meet the criteria for the role’ part of the application if you are applying under this scheme. 

Check out the job description for more information. You can contact Suzy (suzy.gerrans@cgl.org.uk, 07741 900525) to discuss this role further. 

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours. 

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.