Location: remote working in the UK (or option to work at the Sheffield office)
Annual Salary: 23,000
Contract: 12 months
Line Manager: Lisa Byford
Recruiter: Hope Parkin
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Closing Date: 03/03/2024
Are you a teacher looking for an exciting new challenge?
We’re looking for a creative individual to join Twinkl’s growing teaching team in an exciting period of international growth. You’ll be joining a team of passionate teachers in the Rapid Response team, working to create and edit new resources to support teaching and learning across the curriculum. The role will involve working closely with the Rapid Response Product Development Executives who identify opportunities for new resources to fill content gaps. The aim is to react quickly to insights from both our Internal Search Team and Product Teams across Twinkl to create content that meets our customers’ ever-changing needs.
This role involves working on resources on a wide range of subject areas and is focused on volume and response time so it will suit someone who likes variety, is passionate about business growth and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. Every day you will work on creating quick resources to fill content gaps on the website. The resources will be produced for a variety of markets and your work has the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of teachers to help them to manage their time and improve their work-life balance.
Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:
- Create high quality, quick resources to fill content gaps on the website.
- Check a broad range of new resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy.
- Collaborate with colleagues, and sensitively offer feedback, advice and support where needed, to help elevate resources to an excellent standard.
- Curate existing content on site to ensure that it is up to date and meets customers' needs. This involves administrative duties, such as adding keywords to existing resources to improve search results.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Have completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent;
- Have at least two years of full classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete;
- Be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- Have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the Key Stages 1 and 2 National Curriculum in England and the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework;
- Be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and GSuite (Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.);
- Understand the teaching community in England, knowing their unique pressures and current educational trends;
- Have a drive for continuous professional development.
Remote working and hours:
- To be considered for this role, you must be available to work office hours Monday to Friday (from 9am to 5:30pm or similar i.e. 8am- 4:30 pm) so that you can collaborate with your team (accomodations can be made for the school run)
- Essential for remote working - You will need access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check.
In this role, you will learn:
- how to write and check content and provide feedback for your team;
- how to create diverse, inclusive, engaging and varied resources for children and teachers, from the ideation stage to publication;
- how to collaborate with educational professionals based across the UK through our company focus groups and customer feedback requests.
You’ll work with:
- The Product Development Executives who will be identifying content gaps that need new resources on the Twinkl website.
- The Rapid Response Team Leaders who lead team meetings, support staff with ongoing CPD, complete data analysis and support with workflow.
- Our team of qualified teachers, who currently write, edit and produce content for the Rapid Response team.
- Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams - collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.
We're particularly interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Has experience of teaching in multiple-year groups in both KS1 and KS2.
- Has experience of leading a subject area.
How to apply:
Along with your up-to-date CV, please submit a cover letter t