Location: Work from home
Contract: 15 hours per week, 6 months fixed term
Recruiter: Chloe Gardner
As an Arabic Content Writer/Editor at Twinkl, you’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write and edit primary focused Arabic content for Twinkl’s emerging Kuwait market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in the Kuwait School curriculum system, including PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments, planning and more. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent creating content for children in the public school system so you must have experience of teaching in this setting, or be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of this system. Strong language skills in both Arabic and English are a must.
Your weekly activity could include:
- meeting with other Twinkl writers or the Kuwait Country Manager to discuss new ideas;
- writing content for the Kuwaiti market;
- developing new product ideas with the Kuwait Country Manager.
Kuwait is a rapidly growing market for Twinkl. You will have the creative freedom to shape the content we offer to our customers. Our ideal candidate will be going further than writing content by suggesting new product ideas, identifying needs in the Kuwaiti teaching community, sharing their experiences and expertise with others. They will need to be able to work on their own initiative with minimum supervision. The successful candidate will be vital in ensuring that these ambitious plans for Kuwait become a reality. This is a work-from-home, flexible position, and hours can be agreed upon between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments.
In this role, you will learn:
- how to create new teacher content for our Kuwaiti team, from the ideation stage to publication on the site;
- how to write and check Arabic resources for our customers;
- 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.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- be an experienced Arabic language teacher
- have a sound, current working knowledge of the Kuwait Ministry of Education Curriculum
- be a fantastic communicator who can work in team
- use team feedback to make your resources the best that they can be
- be able to innovate on new resources for our country’s content themes and upcoming events;
- Understand the needs of educators within the Kuwait primary public school system, and will create reliable and trustworthy resources in line with those needs.
We’re are especially interested in anyone who also meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Qualifications: Holds a relevant teaching qualification: PGCE, BEd or similar.
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years’ classroom experience as an Arabic Language teacher, who has been actively teaching within the last 12 months;
- Skills: Strong grasp of Arabic spelling, punctuation and grammar, and can communicate clearly in English (the team will operate and conduct meetings in English);
- Personal: Are you a great baker? Do you enjoy weekends in the sunshine? Great! Please include this in your covering letter so we can find out more about you.
Please send all covering letters in English
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.
- Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.
- Twinkl are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity within all of our teams and are committed to continuing to build an inclusive workplace for all. 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.
- 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 glo