Content Writer / Editor - Northern Ireland (Lingo)

Job Introduction

Location: Remote (must be based in UK)

Annual Salary:  £23,000 - £27,525 

Contract: 12 months fixed term contract (likely to be extended) 

Line Manager: Susan Ferguson

Recruiter: Meikay Cheng

Hours: 37.5 hours per week 

Join our passionate team at Twinkl, contributing to online content creation for Northern Irish teachers. This role is dedicated to producing ‘Lingo’ resources for our successful linguistic phonics product. Your primary collaboration will be with the rest of the Northern Irish content writer team, editors, and designers to create these resources. 

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Creating new resources to support teaching and learning for Linguistic Phonics in Northern Ireland.
• Responding to editorial feedback and working alongside colleagues to elevate a resource to an excellent standard.
• Sharing linguistic phonics subject knowledge with the team about how to write a variety of resources which engage learners and appeal to teachers.
• Using your own knowledge of Linguistic Phonics and Twinkl Lingo to support the team with their resource content. 
• Producing resources which respond to customer needs and current teaching methodologies.
• Meeting with other members of the team to discuss and develop new ideas.

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about giving back to the education community and keen to share their Linguistic Phonics expertise with others in their team. 

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 teacher training is complete;
• be a confident practitioner in the delivery of Linguistic Phonics;
• be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
• have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the Northern Ireland Curriculum;
• be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and G Suite;
• understand the teaching community in Northern Ireland, knowing their unique pressures and current educational trends;
• have a drive for continuous professional development.

In this role, you will learn:

• how to ideate and create diverse, inclusive, engaging and varied resources for children and teachers;
• how to work in a team, 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 apply your teaching experience to create new products, from ideation stage to publication.
• how to use Project Tracking software as well as other in-house systems. 

You’ll work with:

• Your own direct Line Manager - Susan Ferguson.
• Our team of qualified teachers who currently write, edit and produce content for the Northern Ireland Team.
• Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams, collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.

Requirements

We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following: 

• Has at least 2 full years experience teaching in Northern Ireland. 
• Has a confident understanding of the teaching of Linguistic Phonics.
• Has detailed knowledge of the content of the Northern Ireland Curriculum. 
• Access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check.
• You will be responsible for supplying and maintaining your own IT equipment if working remotely.

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.