Job Description:
Location: Mexico, 100% remote work-from-home position (You must permanently live and have the right to work in Mexico to apply for this position)
Pay Rate: $6 USD per hour.
Contract: 6-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: Delia Rodriguez
Recruiter: Hope Parkin
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 Mexico.
The best educational resources, without overspending!
The Role:
Here at Twinkl, we are currently looking for a content writer/editor for our brand new product "Mexican New Curriculum''. We are looking for creative, innovative, cooperative content writers/editors to join our team and collaborate with making content according to the New Curriculum 2022 from the New Mexican School - NEM".
You will be helping to create resources specifically designed for first to sixth grade of the primary level in all the areas for the four formative fields (campos formativos)
which will be part of the new Mexican Program. As a team we are looking to add new creative ideas and engaging resources to Primary level.
In your role as a writer/editor, 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 Mexican students and teachers.
As part of the Mexican 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.
In this role, you will learn:
- Create and adapt materials for the new Mexican curriculum.
- Work collaboratively with other Content Writers and designers to produce educational materials.
- How to create new teacher content for our Mexican 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:
Delia Rodriguez (Mexico - Country Manager) - Delia Rodriguez has been a teacher for 25 years in different levels of the Mexican basic education and she is in charge of the production of good quality material and promotion of the website page in Mexico.
Other teachers and team members - the team consists of Content Writers/ Editors and designers, working all together to create material and innovate in Mexican education.
How you'll spend your day:
- Creating resources and lesson plans for the primary level 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.
Requirements:
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Be a Spanish teacher in a private or official school.
- Have an excellent understanding of the New Mexican Curriculum (NEM).
- Have a degree in Primary Mexican Education (no pedagogy).
- Have at least 4 years classroom experience teaching primary levels.
- Have an excellent understanding of the New Program 2022.
- Have fluent and exceptional Spanish language skills.
- Have excellent spelling, punctuation and grammar skills in Spanish.
- Creative and proactive.
- Be creative, accurate and able to communicate in English.
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: Minimum of 2 years' classroom experience, currently teaching the grades of the primary level. .
- Experience teaching with the past Mexican curriculums.
How to apply:
Along with your up to date CV, please submit a cover letter to help us better understand why you are interested in this position and how your teaching experience in Mexico will make you successful in this specific role.
Please make it clear in your application whether you are fluent in Spanish and able to communicate in English.
Benefits:
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.
