Location: Australia - 100% Remote / Home Working (Must permanently live in Australia & have the right to work without restrictions to apply for this role)
Pay Rate: $28AUD per hour
Contract: 12-month initial contract (Highly likely to be extended, but no guarantees) - Self-employed contractor. Responsible for own taxes.
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week
Hiring Manager: Charley Buck
Recruiter: Frazer Morton
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 support educators and children around the world, and we're committed to transforming lives through education.
The Role: We are looking for an illustrator of an Aboriginal Australian background who is confident in their ability to create traditional and contemporary styles of Aboriginal art, to join our Australia team. You will be responsible for creating the images used on Twinkl's resources and will need to be able to adapt to fit with the current artwork style of the company's brand. We are looking for someone who is creative and passionate about illustration and who can work quickly and independently to create fun and child-friendly images.
Joining us, you'll be working with a capable team of writers, editors and designers to create a huge variety of learning resources that are in use by educators in Australia.
How you'll spend your week: Creating illustrations for Aboriginal Australian resources produced by the Australia team. Creating general illustrations for educational resources. Skillshare workshops and other related training activities. Weekly team and line manager meetings. In this role, you will learn: How to illustrate beautifully for a fast-paced ever-changing professional environment. How to make your contribution to a team count. A variety of Twinkl brand styles to service all ages of learners. Advanced and highly valued Photoshop skills. You'll work with: An in-house illustration team with over 100 illustrators. The Australia product team of writers, editors, copywriters, marketing assistants and designers. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Content Advisor. Please apply using your CV, a covering letter and a portfolio. In portfolios, we are looking for candidates with a variety of illustration styles that showcase basic drawing skills, strong examples of line drawing, and a good understanding of how to draw people and proportion/anatomy.
Requirements: To succeed in the role, you will: Have the ability to draw to a predefined style. Be creative and imaginative. Be proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop. Have strong draughtsmanship skills. Be confident in creating both traditional and contemporary Aboriginal art. We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following: Relevant experience in illustration/other art and design-based subjects (a degree is nice to have but not necessary). Experience in educational illustration. Experience in illustrating for children. Essential for remote working: access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6MB down and 1MB upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check.
We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from people of all different cultures and backgrounds including groups for LGBTQ+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people of all ages, races and religions, disabilities (visible and invisible), women in Tech and working parents.
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