Colombian Content Writer/Editor – Middle/ High School Maths Teacher

Job Introduction

Colombian Content Writer/Editor – Middle/ High School Maths Teacher

Location: Colombia, 100% remote work-from-home position (You must permanently live and have the right to work in Colombia to apply for this position)

Pay Rate: $6 USD per hour.

Contract: 12-month contract with an extension highly likely. Self-employed contractor. Responsible for own taxes. No benefits. 

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Hiring Manager: Elsa Gómez 

Recruiter: James Cook

First things first! What is Twinkl? What is Twinkl’s mission?

Twinkl is here to “help those who teach.” It's what brings us to work every day. We're proud to create educational resources that can be used at each step of a child's learning journey.

Our award-winning resource collection - created by teachers for teachers - provides unlimited supplementary digital and printable teaching resources at an unbeatable value. 

We have over a million resources, and new content is added every day. Don’t see what you need? Just ask! We make bespoke resources for our members as part of our world-class customer service promise to help those who teach. 

We support educators and children to get the best resources, tools and training to improve the education in Mexico.

The best educational resources, without overspending!

The Role:

Here at Twinkl, we are currently looking for a content writer/editor for our brand new product “Colombian curriculum''. We are looking for creative, innovative, cooperative content writers/editors to join our team and collaborate with making content according to the Colombian curriculum. Ideally, it should be a secondary teacher who can develop educational resources for Secondary school or a teacher with experience in both lines of training.

You will be helping to create resources  specifically designed for first to sixth grade of the Secondary level in Maths areas for the National and international curriculums, applied in Colombia. As a team we are looking to add new creative ideas and engaging resources to Secondary level.

In your role as a writer/editor, you will focus on quality when writing content and  help ensure that the content of our resources the writers have written is accurate and well written, helping us to deliver high-quality materials to Colombian students and teachers.

As part of the  Colombian team, you will communicate with all the members of the team and other team members from LATAM and attend weekly meetings to stay updated on the progress of our work. 

How you’ll spend your day:

• Creating resources and lesson plans for Primary and Secondary level following the product scheme, reviewing and editing content that our Writers have created to ensure it is accurate, well written, suitable for the target year group and providing the correct level of challenge and support.

• Meeting, working and communicating with other team members in a scrum team to achieve sprint goals. 

In this role, you will learn:

• Create and adapt materials for the new Colombian curriculum.

• Work collaboratively with other Content Writers and designers to produce educational materials.

• How to create new teacher content for our Colombian team, from ideation stage to publication on the site. 

• Remote collaboration, working closely with team members across this market.

• How to develop greater commercial awareness so we can understand the needs of those we want to help.

You’ll work with:

• Elsa Gómez (Colombia - Country Manager) – Elsa Gomez is a marketing and communications professional with 5 years of experience working in education. She has been with Twinkl for 2 years and has already managed to grow the market to have an academic content development team.

• Other teachers and  team members – the team consists of a designer and some other complementary roles in different areas of OK organisation. 

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Qualifications: Bachelor of Education,  Degree of Lic. en Mathematics (or equivalent)

• Have at least 4 years of recent Colombian classroom experience teaching Middle school/ Secondary levels.

• Have an excellent understanding of the DBA, EBC, and other strategic educational models in Colombia.

• Have native Spanish language skills. (both verbally and in writing)

• Be creative, accurate and able to communicate in English to C1/C2 level both verbally and in writing.

We’re are especially interested in anyone who also meets one, or a combination of the following: 

• Experience teaching with some of the Colombian curriculums (national or international). 

• Regular use of educational planning tools.

• Creative and proactive.

• Mathematics teaching qualification with classroom experience