Content Producer

Content Producer

Location: Sheffield

Full time, permanent

Salary: £28,000 - £31,500

Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

The Content Producer plays a pivotal role in refining and enriching our resource library to exceed the expectations of primary school teachers in the UK and beyond. The position involves comprehending teachers' requirements, meticulously identifying gaps in the current library, and strategically enhancing it through resource commissioning, creation and improvement for comprehensive and high-demand content. The role reports to the Head of Content, and works closely and collaboratively with Freelance Teacher Contributors, Graphic Designers, fellow Content Producers and the Content Operations Manager.

This role offers a meaningful opportunity to positively impact teachers by equipping them with effective teaching tools.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Freelance Teacher Contributors, Graphic Designers, and fellow Content Producers to contribute to a comprehensive library of primary school teaching resources by:

• Developing a profound understanding of teachers' needs and staying updated on educational practices, strategies, and curriculum changes.
• Continuously analysing the competitive landscape to identify emerging customer needs and library gaps.
• Thoroughly exploring the existing library to identify and articulate needs for new resources, commission updates, and action removals.
• Following established processes and guidelines to strategically create, update, and enhance resources aligned to all learning areas, special and seasonal events, social emotional learning, classroom management and teacher organisation and across all year levels using teaching experience and creativity.
• Ensuring the creation of adaptable teaching resources that cater to diverse learning needs, incorporating innovative strategies and instructions for effective differentiation.
• Ensuring resources are age-appropriate, culturally sensitive, and promote inclusivity and diversity.
• Applying impeccable attention to detail to ensure resources and supporting website content is accurate, visually appealing, relevant, useful and engaging.
• Incorporating innovative ideas and technologies to enhance interactive and digital components.
• Communicating effectively with Freelance Teacher Contributors for needs, expectations, and actionable feedback.
• Managing relationships with team and cross-team stakeholders for efficient curation and production.
• Employing copywriting and editing skills for website content that communicates value and benefits effectively.
• Optimising website content for usability and SEO to aid discoverability.
• Using data, analytical insights and feedback to continually improve the library.
• Managing competing priorities while maintaining high standards.
• Embracing change and new challenges to enhance library impact.
• Fostering a collaborative and transparent work environment.

What will you need to succeed?

• Over 5 years of primary classroom teaching experience (Key Stage 1 and/or Key Stage 2) with deep understanding of educational needs and curriculum standards.
• Working knowledge of the National Curriculum and Ofsted requirements.
• Proven experience in content curation, management, and resource development for primary school education.
• Proficiency developing high-quality teaching resources using a wide range of software tools, including Google Suite, Adobe Suite, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Diverse digital copywriting and editing skills with ability to create compelling values, benefits and instructional content.
• Experience in content management systems (CMS) and SEO techniques.
• Creative mindset with ability to design engaging teaching materials.
• Strong organisational skills, managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, adaptable to feedback.
• Self-motivated and capable of independent work.
• Customer-centric mind-set and decision-making.
• Familiarity with digital learning and classroom technology advantageous.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• Hybrid working, 3+ days in the office
• Health care cash plan
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking 
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

For more than 100 years, we’ve supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We’ve grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish.

We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal