Content Writer - Ireland Early Years (Teachers)

Early Childhood Content Writer - Ireland

Location: Remote - work from home

Pay Rate: €13.50 per hour

Hours: 15 hours per week including core hours 10am-2pm two week days per week minimum

Contract: 12 - month fixed term contract with a view to extend

Line Manager: Lisa Byrne

Recruiter: Chelsea Sharman

Closing Date: 1st April 2024

At Twinkl Ireland Early Years , we pride ourselves on creating quality content that aligns with the Irish Curriculum . You’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to create content for Twinkl’s Early Years Irish market. This team will focus on play-based pedagogy, to ensure that our resources incorporate engaging and developmentally appropriate activities and support educators in creating environments that stimulate children's natural curiosity and creativity.

We are always looking for opportunities to further support our users and respond to current educational initiatives and, as such, we are now delighted to be focusing on developing resources to support Curriculum aligned resources for Early Years . You will be joining the team at an exciting time as we look to develop early child care resources that can be used by educators across Ireland to support a play based pedagogy.

As a content writer for Ireland , you will be involved in creative ideation, planning, organising 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 Irish customers. You will need to have a strong, current working knowledge of the Early Years sector in particular curriculum and practice guidance, as well as experience of working within an Early Years setting in Ireland . 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.

This role does not require you to work from the Twinkl office and meetings can be conducted via GoogleMeet/Hangouts when required. This is a remote, flexible position. Working hours can be agreed between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments but you should have availability for team meetings during office hours.

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your week:

Ideate, develop and create innovative Early Childhood resources that support adult understanding and provide playful learning experiences for children ages 0-5.

Work, collaborate and communicate with other team members in an agile working team to achieve a shared goal to support educators and children of Ireland.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Produce original content that is accurate, engaging and research-driven, according to a monthly target
• Work as part of a team to identify content opportunities to further grow the segment

In this role, you will learn:

• The production process required for creating new and innovative resources
• How to work as part of a team that is developing a new Early Years product to bring to the market

You’ll work with:

• Early Years Ireland Segment Manager
• Other Content Writers & Editors
• Designers
• Illustrators
• Digital copywriters

Please submit a cover letter to help us better understand why you are interested in this position and how your skills and experience will make you successful in this specific role. 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.

We're interested in anyone with a combination of the following:

• Extensive knowledge of the Aistear Curriculum, particularly candidates with experience in using a play based approach alongside Irish practice guidance.
• At least three years of experience working in an Early Years setting
• Level 8 BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Care and Education or equivalent
• The ability to create resources that demonstrate a high standard of spelling, punctuation, grammar, curriculum relevance and factual accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creativity and initiative.
• The ability to operate fluently between a range of different IT platforms

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.

Benefits

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 the 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.