Educational Author for the creation of practice problems

Educational Author (m/f/d) for the creation of practice problems

With over thousands of learning videos and practice problems, sofatutor ensures sustainable learning fun for children and young people. With a team of over 200 employees, we create carefully designed and high-quality learning media.

As a freelance author (m/f/d) for the content editorial team, you will design our new, interactive exercises and contribute your professional and didactic know-how. We are currently looking for support in the elementary school sector in the subjects of English Language Arts & Mathematics.

Your mission

Our goal is your mission: you will create exercises that explain content in a playful way, are fun to do and, in the best case, improve school grades. Use your creativity and knowledge of how students learn to write short, precise and appealing texts. This is what your tasks will look like in detail:

• Analysis of our videos and selection of the most important learning content
• Design of easy, medium and difficult practice tasks
• Integration of the tasks into the platform via an online interface with direct live previews

Your starting requirements

In addition to your high professional and didactic standards, you bring the following qualities to the table:

• Teaching degree/specialized studies in one of the following subjects: Math and English elementary school, ideally with tutoring or teaching experience.
• Strong spelling, grammar and punctuation skills
• Talent for creating engaging and meaningful interactive learning tasks
• High affinity for digital learning media
• Reliability, independence and regular commitment
• An understanding of how children learn best
• Experience in elementary school teaching in the US or a teaching degree from the US and knowledge of the Common Core Standards

Our promise

We offer a flexible and collaborative online work environment that allows you to structure your work however you see fit but also provides you with support and feedback wherever you might need it. In order for you to make the most of the opportunities in exercise creation and turn them into meaningful and helpful tasks, we offer you a collaboration with real added value:

• For each exercise created, you will receive a competitive fee and hands-on experience within the field of digital education.
• In your extensive onboarding we will provide you with all the tools necessary for your job in comprehensive training sessions (online).
• You will also receive training material for reference.
• If you have any technical questions, our editors are always there for you.
• This position is offered as fully remote and you will have flexible working hours for a good work-life balance.