Educational Content Writer & Editor - Brazil

Job Introduction

Educational Content Writer/Editor - Brazil (Fully Qualified Teachers)

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

Pay Rate: $7 USD per hour (Paid via PayPal monthly)

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

Hours of work: 20 hours per week - The hours can be worked Monday-Sunday flexibly, but cannot be worked alongside a full time job outside of Twinkl.

Hiring Manager: Fabio Oliveira  

Recruiter: Sarah Jane Dalzell

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 across Brazil and around the world, and we’re committed to transforming lives through education.

Whoever you are, whatever you teach, Twinkl is here for you!

The Role:

As a Content Writer here at Twinkl, you’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write and edit content for Twinkl’s emerging Brazil market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental - Anos Iniciais. This will include PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments and planning. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent predominantly creating content in Brazilian Portuguese for all ages in the above categories.

Brazil is a rapidly growing market for Twinkl. You will have the creative freedom to shape the content we offer to our customers. Our ideal candidate will be going further than writing content by suggesting new product ideas, identifying needs in the Brazilian teaching community, sharing their experiences and expertise with others. It is an exciting time for this market. The successful candidate will be vital in ensuring that these ambitious plans for Brazil become a reality. This is a work-from-home, flexible position, and hours can be agreed upon between you and your line manager to fit around your current part time commitments.

How you will spend your week:

• Meeting with other Twinkl writers or the Brazil Country Manager to discuss new ideas;

• Writing content for the Brazilian market;

• Developing new product ideas with the Brazil Country Manager.

In this role, you will learn: 

• How to create new teacher content for our Brazilian 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.

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree or higher in the subject currently being taught with teaching qualifications approved by the Brazil Ministry of Education. 

• Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ classroom teaching experience with the Brazilian local curriculum, currently teaching or classroom teaching within the last 24 months.

• Be focused on collaboration, using feedback to make our resources the best they can be;

• Have detailed knowledge of the local Brazilian curriculum (BNCC);

• Be able to communicate in English to a C1/C2 level (Both written & spoken)

• Native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese. (Both written and spoken) 

• Have excellent spelling, punctuation & grammar in both English & Brazilian Portuguese. 

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

• Be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;

• Have an excellent understanding of the needs of teachers in the primary section (Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental - Anos Iniciais) and support staff delivering learning within the classroom or at home;

• Experience developing educational resources in Brazilian Portuguese.

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 are some of the things that make Twinkl a great place to work:

• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun, and we always put people before the process. 

• Flexible work-from-home positions.

• Diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Color, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech, and Working Parents. 

• Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Our ever-evolving program 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 global team working to help improve the lives of educators around the world. 

Our Recruitment Process: