Content Writer - Ireland
Location: Work from home
Pay Rate: 13.50 per hour
Contract: 15 hours per week, initially 6 months
You’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write content for Twinkl’s emerging Irish market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in primary schools in Ireland. This will include PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments and planning. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent creating content for all ages in primary schools in Ireland.
How you will spend your week:
- meeting with other Twinkl writers or the Country Manager to discuss new ideas;
- writing content for the Irish market;
- developing new product ideas with the Ireland Country Manager and Teacher Team Leader.
Ireland 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 Irish 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 Ireland become a reality. This is a work from home, flexible position, and hours can be agreed between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments.
To succeed in the role, you will:
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- be focused on collaboration, using feedback to make our resources the best they can be;
- have detailed knowledge of the Irish Primary School Curriculum; also have a good understanding of changes in the curricula (eg. New Primary Language Curriculum, Draft Primary Curriculum Framework, Draft Primary Mathematics Curriculum).
- be creative and think outside the box.
- have an excellent understanding of the needs of teachers in Irish primary schools and support staff delivering learning within the classroom or at home.
In this role, you will learn:
- how to create new teacher content for our Irish 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.
Requirements
We’re are especially interested in anyone who also meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Qualifications: QQI Level 8 Bachelor of Education degree; or Level 9 Professional Masters in Education
- Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ classroom experience, currently teaching or classroom teaching within the last 12 months
- Personal: Do you run marathons? Are you a great baker? Great! Please include this in your covering letter so we can find out more about you.
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 couple of the 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.
- Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.
- 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.
- 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.
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.