Location: Remote (must be based in the UK) or at Sheffield HQ

Hours: 37.5 per week

Annual Salary: £20,475 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: Vanessa Sutton

Recruiter: Hope Parkin

You’ll be joining a team of passionate teachers working to edit Twinkl’s online Inclusion content for teachers across the UK. The majority of your time will be spent working with Content Writers, Designers and Illustrators and engaging with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of teacher content for our customers. Your weekly activities could include:

• checking a broad range of new resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy
• sensitively offering feedback, advice and support to our writers where needed
• contributing to workshops with other members of your team
• demonstrating excellent communication skills, giving and receiving feedback with the writers, designers and illustrators that you collaborate with
• curating existing content on site to ensure that it is up to date and meets customers' needs
• attending daily relevant meetings and embrace further training opportunities.

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 from Monday-Friday to enable you to receive training and be supported in your new role.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• have completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent
• have 2 years of full classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete
• be a confident practitioner in the delivery of the KS1 /KS2 curriculum with some experience of teaching children with SEND
• be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team
• collaborate on guidance documents for the team and wider company about inclusive practice and education
• have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England
• have some experience and knowledge about SEND provision for children with a range of specific needs in the classroom
• 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 and take ownership for own workload and time management.

In this role, you will learn:

• how to check content and provide feedback for our 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 create new products, from ideation stage to publication
• how to use Project Tracking software as well as other in-house systems
• to advise and edit sensitive resources based on a range of diverse needs and abilities
• to support both the Inclusion team and Twinkl Symbols team.

You’ll work with:

• The supportive and experienced Inclusion and Twinkl Symbols teams
• Product Owner of Inclusion, Suzy Baker
• Your own direct Line Manager and Product Team Leader, Vanessa Sutton
• Product Team Leader, Ruth Ashby
• Our team of qualified teachers who currently write, edit and produce content for the Inclusion team
• Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams, collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.

Requirements:

• Fully qualified Primary Teacher who has taught a range of subjects across KS1 and KS2 with full class responsibility
• Has detailed knowledge of the content of the 2014 National Curriculum
• Has experience and knowledge of teaching children with a range of SEND needs, and /or has been a SEN Co in their setting.
• If opting to work remotely, you will need access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check

Along with your up-to-date CV, 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.

Twinkl is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity within our teams and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

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 few 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.