Teaching Assistant Segment Assistant
Twinkl, United Kingdom

Teaching Assistant Segment Assistant

Salary: 18,000 - 22,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week- flexible working around team meetings
Contract: Permanent
Location: Sheffield, remote working with a view to eventually be based at our Sheffield HQ building

At Twinkl Teaching Assistants we’re looking to acknowledge the amazing work of teaching assistants and support their varied needs to help prepare them for anything!

As the Segment Assistant within the Teaching Assistant Team, you’ll work closely with Emma Collier, the segment manager, to ensure that we are meeting the Teaching Assistant market needs. In this ever-changing educational climate, we have provided a place for consistent support, advice and guidance to aid all those TAs working in school, online and at home. This is a rapidly growing segment with a great deal of potential within the Twinkl brand. We are constantly looking to further our support for teaching assistants. We have a lot of creative freedom, allowing us to respond quickly to the ever-changing needs of our market. This role is made for someone who has experience of working within UK primary schools and someone who is eager to learn, develop and express their creative ideas to help us to continually modernise our approach and provide the best possible value for Teaching Assistants.

How you’ll spend your day:

• Engaging with our market on social media, posting content and responding to customers. We are also looking for creative ideas to increase our reach by looking for new opportunities through our social media accounts.
• Assisting with the development of the Teaching Assistant landing page ensuring that the user experience is as good as possible.
• Working collaboratively within the Teaching Assistant team to market our current products, with the potential to produce engaging new resources and assist in the production process.
• Looking to engage our market using modern approaches. This could be through the writing of blog content, finding social influencers, assisting with the creation of social media assets, video content, live sessions and many more possible opportunities.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Have previous experience of working in a UK primary school either as a Teacher, TA, HLTA, LSA or similar.
• Have a passion to support Teaching Assistants.
• Have a good understanding of the differing roles and responsibilities for Teaching assistants in a variety of different settings.
• Have an awareness of the varied routes into this career.
• Be confident using ICT, from social media to video creation.
• Be creative and able to communicate your ideas to other team members.
• Be able to think innovatively and find creative solutions to problems.
• Have great organisational skills and the ability to work with many different teams within the company.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.

In this role, you will learn:

How to engage with your target market

How to use data to inform your decision making and spot trends in the market

To draw on expertise from across a thriving and rapidly developing business

To think creatively and respond dynamically to the needs of your customer

You’ll be working with:

Emma Collier (Teaching Assistant Segment Manager) - former Teaching Assistant, with experience working in primary and with SEND.

The Segment Managers team. All are highly skilled specialists in their own segment. We come together to share our expertise and to grow our own segment.

The whole of Twinkl. As this role is so varied, you will be drawing on and learning from experts in their own field across the business.

Who are you?

We’re keeping the door as wide and as broad as possible for this role. You might be someone with a Teaching Assistant (HLTA, LSA, etc) or Teacher background looking to use your skills and experience in a new direction. We would love to hear about your specialisms within those roles and what skills you can share with our market. You may already have experience working in marketing, design or editing capacity and want to take on a new challenge. However you see yourself fitting this role, please detail this in your application letter, explaining your interest in this position, the Teaching Assistant segment and Twinkl in general.

If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application/selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please include this at the foot of your covering letter. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our se

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