Location: Remote (Living in Canada)
Hourly Rate: $20 CAD per hour
Contract: 6 month contract with potential to extend, 20 hours per week
Line Manager: Natalie Alves Recruiter: Frazer Morton
As an elementary content writer for Canada, you will be involved in planning, organizing and creating resources and other content for the site. A large part of this role will be creating Twinkl resources, writing category descriptions, blogs and more for our Canadian customers. You will need to be fluent in French. You will need to have a strong, current working knowledge of the primary and intermediate curriculum, as well as experience working to Immersion and Core French-language standards within a school in Canada. You will use your knowledge to develop resources and your content will be turned into a finished product for Twinkl by our highly skilled design team.
If you’re passionate about supporting those who teach in Canada, we’d love to hear from you.
Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:
- Working with the Canadian team in creating and editing resources in line with the curriculum;
- Supporting other content writers / editors to help check resources (quality control);
- Creating innovative materials to accompany themes and events;
- Creating and developing your own content and ensuring you hit your KPIs and targets.
In this role, you will learn:
- To develop your project management skills;
- Writing and editing for publishing skills;
- To develop skills in maximizing output and reaching objectives.
You’ll work with:
- The Country Manager for Canada (Natalie Alves);
- Other Content Writers / Editors;
- Graphic Designers and Illustrators.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Have current qualifications as an elementary teacher;
- Have a minimum 2 years experience working in a school with full class responsibility;
- Have a sound, current working knowledge of the existing Immersion and Core French frameworks;
- Have a sound, current working knowledge of the existing intermediate and primary frameworks;
- Bring fresh ideas and a good insight into what teachers want and need, and how to execute this;
- Execute excellent spelling and grammar;
- Be comfortable in prioritizing, organizing and project planning;
- Be able to execute on projects - we are looking for people who like to get things done;
- Have effective time management skills;
- Be comfortable pivoting on current projects to new opportunities as they arise;
- Show the ability to work under your own initiative and take your own creative direction with minimum supervision.
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+, Black and Minority Ethnic, 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 our recruitment process.