Content Writer and Editor - Japan
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Twinkl Educational Publishing
Contract
almost 2 years ago
Job Description:
Location: Work from home
Salary: 1,100 JPY per hour
Contract: 15 hours per week, initially 6 months
You’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write and edit content for Twinkl’s emerging Japan market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in elementary school education. This will include PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments and planning. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent creating content for elementary school children from ages 6 to 12 years old.
Requirements
How you will spend your week:
To succeed in the role, you will:
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:
Salary: 1,100 JPY per hour
Contract: 15 hours per week, initially 6 months
You’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write and edit content for Twinkl’s emerging Japan market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in elementary school education. This will include PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments and planning. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent creating content for elementary school children from ages 6 to 12 years old.
Requirements
How you will spend your week:
- meeting with other Twinkl writers or the Japan Country Manager to discuss new ideas;
- writing content for the Japanese market;
- developing new product ideas with the Japan Country Manager.
To succeed in the role, you will:
- be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- be focused on collaboration, using feedback to make our resources the best they can be;
- have detailed knowledge of the Japanese elementary school curriculum;
- have an excellent understanding of the needs of teachers in elementary school and support staff delivering learning within the classroom or at home.
- how to create new teacher content for our Japanese 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.
- Lian McGillycuddy (Country Manager - Japan) Lian has been working with Twinkl since September 2021. She has worked as an English and Science teacher in Japan for ten years, in both public elementary schools and as a private tutor. She loves reading and hiking. She has two lovely children.
- Qualifications: Elementary School Teaching Licence (Type 1 or 2);
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years’ classroom experience, currently teaching or classroom teaching within the last 12 months.
- Personal: Do you run marathons? Are you a great baker? Great! Please include this in your covering letter, so we can find out more about you.
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 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.