Hours: 37.5 hours per week, with flexible working around the core hours of 10-2 Mon-Fri
Annual Salary: 20,475 per annum
Location: Work from home (must be based in the UK) or at Sheffield HQ
Hiring Manager: Sam Turton and a Classic Maths CE (TBC)
Recruiter: Meikay Cheng
You’ll be joining a team of more than fifty passionate teachers working to edit Twinkl’s online content for teachers across the UK. The majority of your time will be spent working with Content Writers and Editors and engaging with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of teacher content for our customer. You will be initially focused on Maths but this could change in the future. Your weekly activity could include:
- checking a broad range of new resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy;
- sensitively offering feedback, advice and support to our writers where needed;
- running workshops with small groups of writers in your team;
- demonstrating excellent communication skills with the writers, designers and illustrators that you collaborate with;
- curating existing content on site to ensure that it is up to date and meets customers' needs.
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about giving back to the education community and keen to share their expertise with others in their team. We would specifically like to know about your experience of teaching or leading primary maths. This position can take place at Sheffield HQ or it can be a work-from-home, flexible position. The role requires work from 10-2 Monday-Friday, but remaining hours can be agreed between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments.
To succeed in the role, you will:
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England with confidence and experience in teaching primary maths;
- be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including 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;
- need a reliable computer or laptop with a fast broadband speed - you will be responsible for maintenance/repairs etc.
In this role, you will learn:
- how to check content and provide feedback for our 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 create new products, from ideation stage to publication.
You’ll be working with:
- Sam Turton (Editor Production Manager and Teacher Manager) - Sam’s been managing our Editor teams for close to 2 years! She loves walking in the Peak District with friends and her lovely dog;
- Your own direct Line Manager who will be confirmed if you are successful.
- Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams, collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.
Requirements
We’re especially interested in anyone who also meets one, or a combination of, the following:
- Essential Qualifications: Completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent; experienced and confident in teaching maths.
- Experience: 2 years of full classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete;
- Personal: Are you a marathon runner? Can you paint? Do you have another interesting hobby? Great! Please include this in your covering letter so we can find out more about how this experience would help you in your new role.
Benefits
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 selection process.
In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.
Here’s a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:
- A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process.
- Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.
- Diversity, incl