Location: UK based- option for remote working/office/hybrid

Salary: £20,475 per annum pro rata

Contract: 12 months with the view to extend, 20 hours per week Mon-Fri

Recruiter: Hope Parkin

Hiring Manager: Emma Rose-McHale

Expected start date: Ideally by September 2023 (or earlier if possible)

You’ll be joining a team of passionate teachers working to create Twinkl’s online EAL content for educators across the UK. The majority of your time will be spent working with other Content Writers and Editors, engaging with product priorities to facilitate the highest possible quality of teacher content for our customers.

Your weekly activities could include:

• ideating, researching and creating new resources to support EAL teaching and learning across the curriculum;
• responding to editorial feedback and working alongside colleagues to elevate a resource to an excellent standard;
• sharing knowledge of how to include, support and further challenge learners of EAL across curriculum subjects with the team, to write a variety of resources that engage learners and appeal to teachers;
• using their own knowledge of working with multilingual learners with a range of language proficiency levels including New to English, to support the team with their resource content;
• producing resources which respond to customer needs and current teaching methodologies;
• meeting with other members of the team to discuss and develop new ideas.

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about giving back to the education community and keen to share their expertise in including learners of EAL in the classroom with others in their team. We welcome applications from diverse candidates. This position is remote and the hours can be worked flexibly with the expectation that you will have good daytime availability for training, meetings, collaboration and ongoing CPD, particularly in your training period/first month. You would need to be available around our core hours (10am-2pm) Mon-Fri, on a minimum of 2 days per week.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• be an experienced educator and a confident practitioner in the delivery of curriculum content to children using English as an additional language;
• 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 G Suite;
• have an understanding of the teaching community in England and beyond, knowing their unique pressures and current educational trends; be actively involved in the wider English language teaching community including being well informed of the latest national EAL guidance, research, and multilingual teaching practices.
• have a drive for continuous professional development.

In this role, you will learn:

• how to ideate and create diverse, inclusive, engaging and varied resources for children and teachers;
• 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 apply your experience to create new products, from ideation stage to publication;
• how to use Project Tracking software as well as other in-house systems.

You’ll work with:

• Christina Hingley (EAL Product Owner);
• Your own direct Line Manager;
• Our team of qualified teachers who will write, edit and produce content for the EAL team and beyond;
• Our amazing in-house design and illustration teams, collaborating daily to produce the beautiful, polished resources that Twinkl are known for.

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

• has taught, planned or adapted existing curriculum content to support EAL learners across either a primary or secondary (or both) age range;
• has experience of being an EAL specialist, whole school EAL lead or coordinator, or EAL lead teacher and has a thorough understanding of how to support multilingual learners of differing language proficiencies in mainstream provision;
• has detailed knowledge of the content of the 2014 National Curriculum;
• has taught, or has knowledge of, KS3 and KS4 level content alongside supporting older learners of EAL to access formal end of year examinations;
• if working remotely you will need access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check;
• has experience of working with multilingual learners, students who may be new to learning English, and international new arrivals (refugees and learners seeking asylum);

• understands the additional factors of welcoming learners of English as an additional language which may include, but not be limited to, pastoral guidance, mental health and trauma support, and working with parents and carers who may be new to learning English.

Your application:

To apply, please submit an up-to-date CV and a tailored cover letter addressing why you are interested in this position and how your skills and your experience will help you to be successful in this specific role (please include details of your experience supporting EAL learners).

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.

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.