Location: Remote (must be based in the UK)
Hours: 20 hours per week
Annual Salary: 23,000 per annum (pro rata)
Contract: 12 monthswith the possibility of extension
Line Manager: Claire Calverley-Smith
Recruiter: Hope Parkin
Closing date for applications: 12/02/24
We are looking for a qualified and experienced UK Primary School Teacher who has a passion for Religious Education!
You’ll be joining a team of passionate teachers working to create and edit Twinkl’s Religious Education content for teachers across the UK. The majority of your time will be spent working with other Content Writers, Editors, Designers and Illustrators; engaging with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of teacher content for our customers.
Your weekly activities could include:
- creating new resources to support teaching and learning across, and in addition to, the curriculum;
- sensitively responding to and giving editorial feedback around grammar and punctuation, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy and potential sensitivity issues, as well as working alongside colleagues to elevate a resource to an excellent standard;
- using your own knowledge of religious and world views relevant to children to support the team with their resource content;
- producing resources which respond to customer needs and current teaching methodologies;
- meeting with other members of the team to discuss and develop new ideas;
- demonstrating excellent communication skills with the writers, editors, designers and illustrators that you collaborate with;
- curating existing content on site to ensure that it is up to date and meets customers' needs;
- auditing resources currently on site for accuracy and sensitivity issues.
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about giving back to the education community and keen to share their RE expertise with others in their team. This position can take place at Sheffield HQ or it can be a UK work-from-home, flexible position.
You will work 20 hours per week, the core working hours are 10:00 am-2:00 pm on a minimum of two days per week Monday-Friday. For this specific role, we would prefer someone who can work on Thursday between 10 am and 2pm to collaborate in our team meeting. However, we can be flexible to fit in around your availability.
Your remaining hours can be agreed upon between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments and business needs.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- have completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent;
- have full classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete;
- be a confident practitioner in delivering religion and world views content to primary-age children;
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- have up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England and how Religious Education teaching fits around this;
- be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and G Suite;
- understand the teaching community in England, knowing their unique pressures and current educational trends;
- have a drive for continuous professional development.
In this role, you will learn:
- how to ideate and create diverse, inclusive, engaging and varied resources for children and teachers right through to publication;
- how to check content and provide feedback for other writers;
- how to work in ‘agile’ teams, allowing you to solve problems and change tasks quickly to meet deadlines;
- how to collaborate with educational professionals based across the UK through our company focus groups and customer feedback requests;
- how to apply your teaching experience to create new products, from ideation stage to publication;
- how to use Project Tracking software as well as other in-house systems.
You’ll work with:
- Dacey Pritchard (RE Product Owner);
- Your own direct Line Manager, Claire Calverley-Smith;
- Our team of qualified teachers who currently write, edit and produce content for the RE team;
- Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams, collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.
We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:
- has taught primary-aged children Religious Education;
- has detailed knowledge of the content of the 2014 National Curriculum;
- access to a fast and reliable internet conne