Secondary Education Content Writer - Colombia (Fully qualified Teachers Only)

Location: Colombia, 100% remote work-from-home position (You must permanently live and have the right to work in Colombia to apply for this position)

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 educational planning tools.

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 are some of the things that make Twinkl a great place to work:

• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun, and we always put people before the process.
• Flexible work-from-home positions.
• 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.

Our Recruitment Process: