Tender: Delivery Partner for Best Start in Life Match Fund – Department for Education

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The Department for Education is seeking a supplier to act as the Delivery Partner for the Best Start in Life Match Fund programme to support Local Authorities in establishing and sustaining Collective Impact partnerships with Backbone Organisations. The Delivery Partner will act as Fund Manager, administering matched funds passed through to Backbone Organisations, managing relationships with Local Authorities and philanthropic funders, and ensuring robust governance, financial control and reporting. The role also requires responsibility for delivering or coordinating Knowledge Mobilisation, Management and Evaluation Partner functions, either directly or via Consortium partners or Subcontractors, across an initial three-year contract with the Department’s option to extend for up to two further years (one plus one).