Content Editor
Nearpod
About Us
Renaissance® is a global leader in education technology. We help schools and school groups in the UK and around the world with educational assessments, practice and intervention solutions, and data analytics. Renaissance now incorporates GL Assessment (known internationally as GL Education), too – a leading provider of educational assessments.
Together, our assessments offer the ideal starting point to help teachers understand their students’ strengths and pinpoint areas of need. Our teaching and learning tools then provide effective next steps, with online literacy and maths solutions that meet students exactly where we are.
Worldwide, we support over 18 million students, operating in over 100 countries.
Product Delivery and Content are responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of educational digital and print products used to support teaching and learning globally. We work with colleagues and partner organisations to successfully deliver new educational assessment and learning content, leading project initiatives to ensure current products are of the highest quality.
The role of the Content Editor is to take an active role in the development and trialling of new items. In addition to new content, the Content Editor will contribute to the construction of assessments by carrying out a range of QA checks.
- Please note this is a fixed term contract up to May 2026
Content Editor Job Responsibilities:
- Undertaking QA checks on new assessments, including construction checks, end-user checks and marking checks
- Managing freelancers (e.g., item writers, illustrators, software developer, curriculum consultants)
- Reviewing of new items against item-writing briefs, guidelines (and national curriculum where appropriate) to ensure suitability of content and feeding back to item writers
- Uploading of new items to database, liaising with the software developer if needed
- Monitoring of item bank for quality and relevance of older items
- Collaborating with item writers to develop brand-new item types
Skills and experience you can bring:
- Well organised and able to manage multiple projects effectively; thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- A confident communicator.
- Able to take initiative, offering effective solutions to problems.
- A thorough and meticulous approach with a keen eye for detail; has a good understanding of the importance of rigorous quality assurance processes within assessment publishing
- Interested in education and willing to develop knowledge of UK and international educational systems.
- Confident using MS Office and internal systems
Additional information:
We offer a salary up to £27,000 plus benefits. Please note this is a fixed term contract up to May 2026.
This role is based out of our tech hub in Houghton-Le-Spring – ideally hybrid so you can spend 2 days a week with the team and the rest from home.
Benefits:
Pension & Insurance – all employees can participate in our salary sacrifice company pension scheme– where we will contribute 8% of your annual salary if you contribute 3%. All employees are entitled to Life and income protection insurance
Holiday - 22 days annual leave per annum, plus 3 days to be used over Christmas. We also offer a day off for your birthday so you can celebrate in style. We are proud to offer up to 5 paid volunteering days per year with a cause of your choice.
Shopping & Working for Renaissance Perks - you’ll get instant access to a benefits and discount platform with 1000’s of discounts at retailers, leisure attractions, restaurants, and more through our reward portal. You will also be able to collect reward points via our employee recognition platform.
Wellbeing & Health – We have a generous maternity/paternity/adoption leave and pay policy, employee assistance programme available 24/7 offering confidential support from counselling to legal and financial advice. We offer access to company paid BUPA PMI and BUPA cash plan schemes should you choose these.
Renaissance UK Office benefits we offer a season ticket loan if needed, or a cycle to work scheme where you can save on bikes. All UK Offices have weekly fruit baskets delivered for all to enjoy a healthy snack.
We have an ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and have taken strides to become a more welcoming and inclusive workplace, including the introduction of our DEI Matters Network which is owned and driven by our staff.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within our organisation.
If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend any interview, please contact us and we will talk this through with you.
All your information will be kept confidential according to GDPR guidelines. Please note that we can only consider applicants who already hold a full work permit.
This role is subject to DBS and background checks.