Secondary Education Content Writer - Bogota, Colombia - Twinkl

Descripción

Pay Rate:
$6 USD per hour. (Paid monthly into your bank account)


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


Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week


Hiring Manager:
Elsa Gómez


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 to get the best resources, tools and training to improve the education in Colombia and around the globe.

_ The best educational resources, without overspending_

The Role:

Here at Twinkl, we are currently looking for a content writer for our brand new product "Colombian curriculum''.

We are looking for creative, innovative, cooperative content writers to join our team and collaborate with making content according to the Colombian curriculum.

Ideally, it should be a secondary teacher who can develop educational resources for upper Primary & lower Secondary school or a teacher with experience in both.

You will be helping to create resources specifically designed for first to sixth grade of the Primary and lower Secondary levels in all the areas for the National and international curriculums, applied in Colombia.

As a team we are looking to add new creative ideas and engaging resources to our Primary and lower Secondary levels.

In your role as a content writer, you will focus on quality when writing content and help ensure that the content of our resources the writers have written is accurate and well written, helping us to deliver high-quality materials to Colombian students and teachers.

As part of the Colombian team, you will communicate with all the members of the team and other team members from LATAM and attend weekly meetings to stay updated on the progress of our work.

How you'll spend your day:

• Creating resources and lesson plans for the Primary and lower Secondary levels, following the product scheme, reviewing and editing content that our writers have created to ensure it is accurate, well written, suitable for the target year group and providing the correct level of challenge and support.
• Meeting, working and communicating with other team members in a scrum team to achieve sprint goals.

In this role, you will learn:

• Create and adapt materials for the new Colombian curriculum.
• Work collaboratively with other Content Writers and designers to produce educational materials.
• How to create new teacher content for our Colombian 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.

You'll work with:

• Elsa Gómez (Colombia
• Country Manager)
• Elsa Gomez is a marketing and communications professional with 5 years of experience working in education. She has been with Twinkl for 2 years and has already managed to grow the market to have an academic content development team.
• Other teachers and team members the team consists of a designer and some other complementary roles in different areas of OK organisation.

Requirements:


To succeed in the role, you will:

• Be a fully qualified Secondary School teacher in a private or official school in Colombia.
• Have an excellent understanding of curricular models in Colombia.
• Have a teaching / education degree that is recognised in Colombia.
• Have recent classroom experience teaching Secondary levels in Colombia, (in the last 4 years).
• Have an excellent understanding of the DBA, EBC, and other strategic educational models in Colombia.
• Have fluent / native level Spanish language skills.
• Have excellent spelling, punctuation and grammar skills in Spanish.
• Creative and proactive thinker.
• Have excellent English communication skills both written and spoken ideally C1/C2 level but would accept B2+.

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

• Qualifications: Bachelor of Education, Degree of Lic. en Educación Primaria or Normalista (or equivalent)
• Experience: Recent classroom experience, currently teaching the grades of the lower Secondary levels. (in the last 4 years)
• Experience teaching with some of the Colombian curriculums (national or international).
• Regular use of e