Hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexible working around core hours)
Contract: Permanent
Annual Salary: 23,000 per annum
Location: UK remote (options for office working at Sheffield HQ/Hybrid)
Recruiter: Hope Parkin
Closing date for applications: 18/03/2024
We’re looking for experienced teachers with specialist knowledge of English and handwriting to join our team of passionate teachers working to create Twinkl’s online content for educators across the UK. In this role, you will be responsible for the creation of resources for our handwriting and English intervention product lines, including our 60-Second Reading Intervention and SPaG Samurai schemes. You will work alongside other content writers and editors to engage with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of teacher content for our customers. Our ideal candidate will have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England.
Your weekly activities could include:
- Creating new resources to support the teaching and learning of English and handwriting;
- Checking a broad range of new resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy;
- Responding to editorial feedback and working alongside colleagues to elevate a resource to an excellent standard;
- Sensitively offering feedback, advice and support to our writers where needed;
- Sharing specialist English and handwriting knowledge with the team about how to write and edit a variety of resources which engage learners and appeal to teachers;
- Curating and editing existing content on site to ensure that it is up to date and meets customers' needs;
- 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.
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about giving back to the education community and keen to share their English and handwriting expertise with others in their team. This position can take place at Sheffield HQ or it can be a work-from-home, flexible position.
Remote working and hours:
- Although we allow flexible working patterns to fit in around family or other commitments, our full-time team members are expected to complete most of their work during office hours, Monday to Friday. To be considered for this role, you would need to be available around our core hours (10am-2pm) Monday to Friday. You will need to have good daytime availability for training, meetings, collaboration and ongoing CPD, particularly in your training period/first month.
- 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.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- have completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent;
- have 2 years of full classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete;
- have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England and be a confident practitioner in its delivery;
- have essential, specialist knowledge of English and handwriting;
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including Google Workspace (Google Docs and Google Sheets), Microsoft Word and PowerPoint;
- 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 English resources for children and teachers;
- how to write and check content and both give and receive constructive feedback;
- 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 be working with:
- Bethany Harris (English and Handwriting Interventions Product Owner)
- English and Handwriting Interventions Team Leader(s)
- Our team of qualified teachers who write, edit and produce content for the English team.
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