Leaders Team Content Writer

**Leaders Team Content Writer - UK***:**Hours**: 15 - 20 hours per week to suit availability of the individual
**Salary**: £20,475 per annum (pro rata)
**Location**: Work from home / Sheffield HQ

**Hiring Manager**: Oliver Wright
**Recruiter**:Claire Bonnett

In this role, you will be researching and writing content to support teachers and leaders in schools. You will work with the Leaders team who produce content to support all levels of leaders within schools. This could be summaries of DfE or Ofsted documents, content to support school improvement or to develop leadership capacity within school and CPD materials. We are also producing audio, video and blog content. Our customers are headteachers, school governors and teachers on their own leadership journeys. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as they grow, providing school leaders with the resources they need. The majority of your time will be spent working with Content Writers, Editors, Designers and those responsible for Marketing and Partnerships. You will be engaging with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of content for our customers.

**Your weekly activity could include**:

- Generating ideas for content to help those who lead;
- Researching and writing educational content;
- Checking your own content for spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy;
- Sensitively offering feedback, advice and support to our team where needed;
- Running workshops with small groups of writers/editors in your team;
- Demonstrating excellent communication skills with the writers, designers and team members that you collaborate with.

In this role, you will learn:

- How to write educational content in the Twinkl style and how to use the Twinkl production systems which enable your work to be published.
- How to optimise resources for SEO purposes.
- how to work in ‘agile’ teams, 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 create new products, from the ideation stage to publication.

You’ll be working with:

- Oliver Wright (Leaders Segment Manager), a former headteacher with over 20 years of experience in a variety of schools. Now developing Twinkl’s SLT sector.
- Rose Moss: Leaders and CPD Production Manager.
- The Leaders production team.
- The whole of Twinkl. As this role is so varied, you will be drawing on and learning from experts in their own field across the business.

**Requirements**:
**To succeed in the role, you will**:

- have completed primary qualified teacher status: PGCE, B.Ed or equivalent;
- have 2 years of full primary classroom teaching experience after QTS is complete;
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum in England;
- be prepared to confidently work between different IT platforms, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and GSuite (Docs, Slides etc.);
- understand the teaching leaders community in England, knowing their unique pressures and current educational trends;
- have a drive for continuous professional development;
- have access to a reliable computer or laptop with a fast broadband speed (if remote) - you will be responsible for maintenance/repairs etc.

**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
- 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.
- From day 1 - Westfield Health, 29 annual leave days per year plus up to four additional days that may be awarded each year by the company, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home, Twinkl subscription, access to a financial wellbeing coach and platform
- After probation - company sick pay and cycle to work scheme
- Long term service reward after 2+ years of service - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay.