Salary: £26000 per annum
Location: Bristol (This role support Hybrid working, with time in our Bristol office to support your learning)
Hybrid working: Made Tech office 1 - 2 days per week (depending on business needs).
Application closing date: Friday 31st October 2025 at 23:59pm
Our mission
Get ready to learn the fundamentals of creating proposals and securing meaningful projects with the public sector.
At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country with digital technology. We help public sector organisations deliver quality software to help citizens get more from public services. We work alongside brilliant public servants to modernise technology and accelerate digital delivery.
We are expanding our Bids and Frameworks function and are excited to offer an entry point into one of our industry's most critical areas: creating proposals to win new work. As a Bid & Proposal Coordinator Apprentice, you’ll gain hands-on experience while working towards a Level 3 apprenticeship. This is an excellent opportunity to build a career in bids and proposals, contributing to meaningful work that helps us secure projects with the public sector.
Your Journey as an apprentice
As a Bid and Proposal Coordinator Apprentice, you'll embark on a 24-month journey to become an expert in creating compelling proposals. This is more than just a job; it's a structured learning experience that includes dedicated study time with an external training provider. You'll receive hands-on mentoring and have the flexibility of a hybrid working model, with time spent in our Bristol office to support your learning and development every step of the way.
In this role, you'll work as part of our Bid and Frameworks team to support opportunities from the early stages of presales through to submission. You'll assist with planning activities, managing timelines, and ensuring all documentation for bid responses is well-structured, compliant, and submitted on time. You'll also get the chance to: help maintain and update our knowledge management systems; support and contribute to bid, framework, and pipeline records; learn how public sector procurement works and how to align bids with customer needs; and lead cross-functional teams to create persuasive, specific, and engaging proposals. You will also be a key contributor to writing well and will inspire your colleagues to do the same.
We're looking for someone who is organised, detail-oriented, and confident in building relationships with colleagues and senior leaders. You don't need any prior experience in bids or a corporate environment, but a strong passion for writing is a must. At least six months of experience working with customers in any field like retail, hospitality, or customer service will be helpful.
You should be comfortable learning new systems and processes and have strong written and verbal communication skills. We are looking for someone enthusiastic, curious, and motivated to build a career in bids and proposals. You should also be comfortable working in a team and have an interest in public sector services, technology, or business development. You should have advanced skills or experience with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace and be committed to undertaking the 15-18-month learning program.
Essential requirements
The following criteria have been marked as essential, as part of the funding requirements:
- Applicants must be 18 years and older at the time of starting the program. This is part of the funding requirements.
- Applicants must be residing in England
- Applicants must not be currently employed or taking part in any other apprenticeship or government-funded programme.
- Applicants must hold an English GCSE at grade B/5 and Maths GCSE at grade C/4 or above, or equivalent functional skills level 2. This is a minimum requirement.
- Must not hold a qualification at the same or higher level in the same occupational area or similar subject (please refer to the Apprenticeship details below for further guidance)
Apprenticeship details
- Programme: Level 3 Bid & Proposal Coordinator
- Duration: 24 months
- Training: Structured learning via an external training provider, including dedicated study time.
- Support: Hands-on mentoring and hybrid working, with time in our Bristol office to support your learning.
Next steps:
- Selected applicants will be invited to a short written task.
- We will then invite you to a short virtual screening.
- If successful after the virtual screening, we will then invite you to our Made Tech assessment day.
- Before the assessment day, we will hold a virtual drop-in session.
SC Eligibility
An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.
Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.
Life at Made Tech
We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice, neurodiversity as well as our client work and best practice.
Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Partner know.
The groups are:
- antiracist-activists
- disability
- lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
- neurodiversity
- parents-carers
- women-in-tech
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
✈️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
️ Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
Made Tech is on a mission to use technology to improve society - for everyone. We help organisations transform, deliver and manage world-class digital products and services.
Today, you can see our services (and people!) in action, such as the design and build of the Homes for Ukraine service, delivered in 2 weeks. We’re helping local authorities make it easier and quicker for people to log housing repairs online. By digitalising access to NHS services we’re making it more accessible, such as children needing mental health support.
All this great experience is enabling us to support new areas, like energy. We’re helping to drive better environmental outcomes by improving network performance through real-time asset monitoring, which means less wasted energy.
We were recently named as a finalist in the Raising the Bar for Workplace Transparency Award in the Shift People Awards. This is a recognition of our many great initiatives, such as our open-access employee handbook that we launched 5 years ago.
