SEO Design Content Writer and Editor

Location: Twinkl HQ / Remote
Annual Salary: £23,000

Contract: 12 Months Fixed Term
Hours: Full time (37.5 per week Monday to Friday during office hours)
Line Manager: Rakhee Patel
Recruiter: Claire Bonnett

Closing Date: 20/3/24

Start Date: 6/5/24

SEO Design is part of the Fast Response Group at Twinkl and aims to create engaging, classroom-ready resources that fill content gaps on site. As a Content Writer/Editor on the SEO Design Team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with our talented team of Graphic Designers, Illustrators, and Content Editors. Your creativity will be used to produce engaging resources that meet our product objectives and provide our customers with the highest quality teacher content available.

Your weekly activities could include the following:

• Offering feedback, advice, and support to team members in a sensitive manner.
• Ideating resources for future upcoming projects 
• Checking a wide variety of resources for spelling, punctuation, grammar and accuracy.
• Collaborating with colleagues to enhance a resource to an excellent standard.
• Working alongside team members to discuss and develop new ideas
• Demonstrating excellent communication skills with your peers

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Creating a range of high quality resources to fill content gaps on the website.
• Peer-checking the work of other Editors on the team.
• You will work closely with SEO Content Gap Keywords
• You will plan upcoming projects and ensure that there are sufficient tasks for the team to work on.
• You will support designers by offering feedback on their resources during pre-upload checks

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Be familiar with working in a fast paced environment.
• Have proficient IT skills and experience using Microsoft Office Suite and G Suite.
• Have experience of managing a personal workload effectively to a tight deadline.
• Be confident in researching topics independently, to ensure that content is accurate and fit for purpose. 
• Have a desire to continuously develop professionally.
• Have QTS and at least 2 years of UK classroom experience

In this role, you will learn:

• How to effectively write resources, produce content for different purposes, audiences and resource types
• How to edit content constructively
• How to fill content gaps effectively in a time sensitive manner
• How to maximise SEO impact on resources.

You’ll work with:

• The SEO Team Leader to set goals, plan and forecast future projects.
• Content Writers & Editors /Graphic Designers / Illustrators to ensure that resources are the best fit for the customer.

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.

Requirements

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

• Has previous experience as a Content Writer / Editor.
• Is organised, able to work to deadlines, and manages time effectively.
• Has the ability to communicate well with others.
• Essential for this team - ability to work office hours, Monday-Friday.  Flexibility can be provided for personal commitments, such as school runs.
• Essential for remote working- 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

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 (pro-rata) plus up to four additional days that may be awarded each year by the company, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home and Twinkl subscriptions.
• After probation - company sick pay and cycle to work scheme
• Long term service reward - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay.

So what exactly is Twinkl? Some describe us as a Digital Publisher, others, as an Education Partner (we used to be called an EdTech start-up). To be honest, we’re all these things and much more too. But the description we’re most proud of is the one our members use - “Twinkl is a life-saver”.

Twinkl began life in 2010 as a husband and wife start-up, working from a tiny back bedroom. Today, Twinkl is a truly global business, with members in nearly every country in the world. Our positive impact is driven by a community of passionate Twinklees, all inspired by the same mission - to help those who teach.

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