Associate Advisers provide a flexible, additional technical resource to support the activities of the core TVET team at the British Council and play an important role in the development and delivery of our programmes. To meet the needs of the British Council over the next three years, we are seeking up to 6 Associates who together will provide comprehensive expertise across the TVET sector and are capable of undertaking a range of activities. Primarily these will include:

  • Gathering market intelligence for potential partnerships, contract and project opportunities including intelligence related to potential clients, partners and consultants.  This may include undertaking scoping visits to targeted countries, producing scoping reports with recommendations and acting as a representative of the British Council at meetings or events with clients, partners and other stakeholders.
  • Developing concepts and designing methodologies to address skills and employability challenges and to take advantage of new partnerships opportunities. This may include working with clients, partners and colleagues to co-design projects and develop and refine system and delivery approaches.
  • Writing and/or quality assuring proposals for partnerships and technical assistance projects in response to invitations to tender from international donors, governments, charitable foundations and other funding sources. This may include contributing to proposals being written by partners or colleagues.

Further information about the scope of services is provided in the Request for Proposal Form (RFP) included in the bidders pack. 

Associates will be engaged for up to 30 days a year under a Framework Agreement to work alongside the British Council’s core TVET team and will provide specialist input to our work related to TVET and skills systems. 

Bidders will be required to register on e-Tendering portal In-Tend  in order to take part in the tender process.  

Once registered, bidders must log-in to the website where they can view the project and access the bidders pack and submit their return.

The reference number for this opportunity is: BC/01907; the project title is: UK_2021_E&S_TVET Associate Advisers. 

Bidders will be required to demonstrate and evidence their expertise and experience. These conditions are outlined in the RFP and the Supplier Response form. 

The deadline for submitting returns is Sunday 15 August 2021 23:59 UK time.

In order to ensure a fair and transparent tendering process we ask all bidders to submit their questions via In-Tend portal and we will share the questions and responses with all the bidders in the indicated timeline.