Location: Australia, remote
Pay Rate: AUD 33 per hour
Contract: 6-month fixed-term contract with view to extend, 25 hours per week
Hiring Manager: Rebecca Usherwood / Julia Baker
Recruiter: Frazer Morton
Like to hustle? Ambitious and proactive? We’re looking for the right person to join the entrepreneurial teams that comprise Twinkl’s core customer segments. You will be responsible for supporting the ongoing development and growth of our Prac and Pre-Service Teacher community.
You'll start as a University Liaison, directly connecting with customers and universities around Australia via a variety of different communication channels to highlight and demonstrate the benefits of Twinkl's Australia Prac and Pre-Service Teachers' products and resources. You'll be moving into this position as a team of one with the support of many, so you’ll need to take a rapid iterative approach, employing different marketing and business development techniques to get the message out to customers and universities. You'll be the person responsible for defining, building, managing and supporting user growth within the Australia Prac and Pre-Service Teachers customer segment. You will be commercially minded and comfortable in making decisions on where to pursue opportunities. You will be responsible for reporting monthly and quarterly in line with business expectations.
This is a very varied role that involves both proactive strategic planning and reactive work as you pivot and respond to the demands of your growing market.
A typical week could involve any of the following:
- Showing tenacity and drive, and going above and beyond to reach new customers and build up and connect with studying students.
- Connecting with Australian universities to build rapport and offer support to all studying students (1st year - final year).
- Engaging with customers within the Prac and Pre-Service Teacher market via social media channels and the weekly newsletter, and working alongside the Trainee Teachers Segment Manager in the UK to develop plans for potential development and direction of the segment and how to grow this.
- Digital Optimisation - ensuring content is up to date, looking at the overall user experience of the Australian Prac and Pre-Service Teachers of the Twinkl site and working with our web and design teams to continuously improve this.
- Business management and strategy putting plans in place to help achieve our ambitious growth targets. Working with other Segment and Country Managers to understand what’s working and how we can improve.
You’ll work with:
- Rebecca Usherwood - Head of APAC and Australian Country Manager
- Julia Baker - Marketing Manager for Australia will be your line manager and mentor
- The Australia Segment Managers team
- The UK Trainee Teachers Segment Manager/University Liaison
- The Inclusion product team
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will have:
- A strong entrepreneurial mindset and a propensity for action.
- Thorough knowledge of the Australian Prac and Pre-Service Teachers market, and of our customers.
- Relevant and recent professional qualifications and teaching experience; Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Masters degree in primary/secondary education or appropriate equivalent degree;
- Sound decision-making skills and diligent in seizing new opportunities.
- Commercially astute and a strategic thinking, being comfortable taking calculated risks and being accountable for successes and failures.
- The ability to communicate a shared vision and motivate individuals and a team.
- Methodical, highly organised, accurate and execution focused
We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Cares passionately about the education and Australian teaching community, particularly those who are new to the profession.
- Experience marketing a product within the education sector.
- Thorough knowledge of the education system in Australia.
- A minimum of two years experience working as a primary and/or secondary teacher.
- Understands what good prioritisation is, and values output and results.
- Is super-positive, optimistic and works well within a range of teams.
- Is resilient and can respond to internal and external feedback positively and professionally.
- A strong entrepreneurial mindset and a propensity for action.
- Sound decision-making skills and diligent in seizing new opportunities
Benefits
In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with pl