Location: Australia, remote - work from home
Annual Salary: $25 per hour, starting salary
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract: 6 months fixed term, with the possibility of an extension
Hiring Manager: Talitha McReaddie-Sawley
Recruiter: Michael Jordan
As a Content Writer/Editor, you’ll be joining our exciting secondary Beyond product team, where you will be helping to create resources specifically designed for Australian educators teaching the Year 7 - Year 10 Australian Mathematics Curriculum.
Because we work in a versatile way, you will be employed as a content writer, producing raw teaching materials from scratch, as well as an editor, paying detailed attention to the work of other writers both before and after the creative team has produced the finished designs. A large part of your initial role will involve aligning existing content with the Secondary Australian Curriculum. The tasks you fulfil on any one day will be determined by your team leader according to workflow and customer need.
You will be the go-to specialist for the Year 7- Year 10 Australian Mathematics Curriculum, using your up-to-date knowledge of secondary education and supporting documentation to ensure that our resources are suitable for the target audience, are engaging and innovative, and provide the correct levels of challenge and support.
To succeed in the role you will:
- have excellent up-to-date knowledge of your subject area and a passion for teaching it;
- have sound writing skills, in order to produce highly accurate written material;
- have brilliant editing skills, with the ability to consistently check a broad range of resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy;
- have strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in order to operate in an agile team environment;
- have a strong work ethic, and pride yourself on the quality and accuracy of your work;
- strive for continuous personal development and be a fast learner who thrives on challenges;
- have excellent technology skills with the ability to operate fluently between a range of different IT platforms;
- have confidence in demonstrating a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint.
You’ll work with:
- a team of content writers, editors, designers, illustrators and digital copywriters, based in Australia and the UK;
- the Secondary Segment Manager.
You will be:
- committed to representing diversity through the work you produce;
- committed to understanding and implementing Twinkl Beyond Brand guidelines;
- constantly aware of the Australian secondary education market and able to identify gaps, as well as being aware of competitor releases.
You will learn:
- the ins and outs of being a Content Writer/Editor at Twinkl;
- how to respond to customer requests and feedback;
- the production process required for creating new and innovative resources;
- how a production team works together across different markets and countries.
Requirements
You will need:
- your own device and a reliable, high-speed internet connection, with the capacity for face-to-face meetings over webcam;
- the capacity to work across time zones.
You will have:
- a qualified active teacher status;
- an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in secondary education or appropriate equivalent degree, with a focus on Mathematics;
- a minimum of 3 years relevant classroom teaching experience with full class responsibility;
- recent classroom teaching experience.
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
What we can offer you:
- an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities;
- a friendly, welcoming and supportive workplace culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process;
- flexible hours working from home;
- diversity, inclusion and belonging;
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Our ever-evolving programme 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 glob