Location: Remote (must be based in the UK)
Annual Salary: £20,475 pro rata
Contract: 12 months maternity cover
Hours: 30 hours per week
Line Manager: Claire Calverley-Smith
Recruiter: Claire Bonnett
Hiring Manager Emma Rose-McHale
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 expertise with others in their team. 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, your line manager and your Product team to fit around your current commitments and business needs. For the first 2 weeks, you will be able to commit to 7.5 working hours between 8am and 5pm on four days a week to enable you to receive training and be supported in your new role.
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.
Please submit a cover letter to help us better understand why you are interested in this position and how your skills and experience will make you successful in this specific role.
We want to ensure that everyone has an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities to us. To let us know about any support/adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and information on how we will provide this, please use this form
Please note, any individual has the option to request reasonable adjustments. However, it is not mandatory when submitting your application.
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.
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 connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check.
Benefits
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.
- Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
- From day 1 - Westfield Health, 29 annual leave days per year plus up to four additional days that may be awarded each year by the company, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home, Twinkl subscription, access to a financial wellbeing coach and platform
- After probation - company sick pay and cycle to work scheme
- Long term service reward after 2+ years of service - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay.
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