Illustrator Talent Pool - South Africa

Location: Remote (Work from Home)

Hourly Rate: $5.50 USD per hour

Recruiter: Claire Bonnett

Are you an illustrator looking for career opportunities at Twinkl? Would you love to use your skills and experience to help those who teach?

If you are interested in becoming part of the amazing Twinkl team, send us your CV and portfolio of your best work and we may be in contact to discuss adding you to our Illustrator Talent Pool.

When suitable roles become available, we’ll get in touch regarding the next steps of the recruitment process.

Being in the pool does not prevent you from applying for Twinkl roles, so please keep a look out on our careers page too.

Joining us, you’ll be working with a capable team of writers, editors and designers to create a huge variety of learning resources that are in use across the globe. Whether it be illustration to increase engagement levels of students or to demonstrate a principle crucial to the student’s understanding, you’ll be contributing to Twinkl’s mission to ‘Help those who teach,’ and helping give learners worldwide a step up in life.

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Creating illustrations for the international teams resources.
• Skill share workshops and other related training activities.
• Weekly team and line manager meetings

In this role, you will learn:

• How to illustrate beautifully for a fast paced ever changing professional environment.
• How to make your contribution to a team count. You won’t just learn to be efficient, but also to be effective.
• A variety of Twinkl brand styles to service all ages of learners.
• Advanced and highly valued Photoshop skills.

You’ll work with:

• An international illustration team
• One of our product teams

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Have the ability to draw to a predefined style
• Be creative and imaginative
• Be proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop
• Have the ability to research and pull out relevant information & ideas
• Have strong drawing fundamentals

We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:

• Degree or equivalent in illustration/other art and design-based subject.
• Experience in educational illustration.
• Experience in illustrating for children.

Equipment Checklist:

What is provided by Twinkl?

• Twinkl Google account (access to Gmail, Google calendar, sheets, etc)
• Access to Adobe account
• Access to Microsoft Office
• Twinkl Account

What you will need to provide

• Reliable internet connection - use speed checkers such as fast.com to check connection.
• Minimum speed: 16Mbs download, 8Mbs upload
• 50ms average latency when pinging 8.8.8.8
• You will need to be able to be on a video call with ten people, having camera and microphone on with no connection issues.
• Adequate working space - ideally a desk that is at least 84cm across and 70cm deep.
• Computer or laptop, minimum spec to allow all necessary programs and systems to run optimally:
  • Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700
  • 16Gb RAM
  • 256GB SDD Hard drive
  • Mouse
  • Webcam and headphones including microphone
• Drawing tablet:
  • Resolution Minimum of 1920 x 1080
  • Physical Size 16" (40cm) minimum, ideally 22” (55cm) (iPads and iPad pros are not suitable)

Other considerations

• We want our team to have a good working environment free from distractions. You should have boundaries in place to separate work from home life.

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.

● Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.

● 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.

● Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Our ever-evolving program includes: Monthly progression reviews, Twinkl’s Management Scheme, commercial awareness training, leadership coaching quads, career chats and mentoring.

● Collaboration across continents! You’ll plug into a global team working to help improve the lives of educators around the world.

Please apply using your CV and a covering letter that contains a link to your online portfolio. Applications need to be submitted in English please.

In portfolios, we are looking for candidates with a variety of illustration styles that really showcase basic drawing skills. In particular, we want to see strong examples of line drawing and good understanding of how to draw people and proportion / anatomy. We also need evidence of flexibility and adaptability to demonstrate that candidates would be capable of adopting the Twinkl brand styles which can be seen on the website.

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.