Content Editor - Classic Aus English (Australia)
Location: Australia; remote
Salary: AUD 25 per hour
Contract: 6 months
Hours: 15 hours per week
Recruiter: Louise Scott
As a Content Editor for Classic Aus English, you will be helping to edit resources specifically designed for Australian educators and children within our Classic Aus English product. You will have experience teaching in Australia across the primary years F-6, with a passion and in-depth knowledge of the English Curriculum. You will assist Content Writers to develop creative, innovative resources, and closely with other team members, including Illustrators and Designers. Your role will include editing and proofreading English resource content at both Pre-Design and Pre-Upload stages.
This role does not require you to work from the Twinkl office although you must be available for face-to-face meetings over webcam. The hours can be worked whenever suits you as long as the hours are completed within each week. If you are working from home, you will need to provide your own device to work on and a reliable, high-speed internet connection. We are looking for working teachers (part-time or casual relief) who can do this around their teaching.
Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:
- Edit English content that has been created by Content Writers to address gaps in our current offering, aligned to the Australian Curriculum;
- Work and communicate with other team members in a scrum team to achieve sprint goals.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Be passionate about and have a genuine interest for different annual events and topics;
- Have enthusiasm for creating exciting and engaging new resource content, aligned to the Australian Curriculum;
- Have knowledge and experience in teaching of the Australian Curriculum in F-6;
- Have an excellent eye for attention to detail when reviewing content;
- Be able to work collaboratively with Content Editors and other production team members, and be open to receiving constant feedback throughout the different production stages;
- Be committed to representing diversity through the work you produce, and have a good understanding of associated issues;
- Be aware of and implement Twinkl Brand guidelines;
- Be aware of and constantly review gaps in the market, as well as being aware of competitor releases.
In this role, you will learn:
- The ins and outs of being a Content Editor at Twinkl;
- How to respond to customer requests and feedback;
- The production process required for creative new and innovative resources;
- How a production team works together across different markets and countries.
You’ll work with:
- Other Australia team members the team will consist of Content Writers, Content Editors, Designers and Illustrators in Australia and the UK;
- Alex Bracken (Product Owner) - Alex leads the English team from a product perspective; pushing the product forward, staying innovative and listening to what Australian customers are wanting.
We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Qualifications: undergraduate or postgraduate in primary education or appropriate equivalent degree;
- Minimum of 3 years relevant and recent primary teaching experience and market awareness;
- Has a passion for teaching and creating fun, engaging classroom experiences
- Likes to work collaboratively with different teams across time zones.
- Has excellent communication and ICT skills;
- Has exceptional spelling and grammar.
Please submit a cover letter to help us better understand your previous experience and how it would help you to be successful within this role.
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.
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