Description
Title: Editor/Writer - English
Company: Baby English (online education company)
Location: Wangjing SOHO, Beijing, PRC
Type: Full-time
Salary: ¥20,000-25,000/mo
Years of Experience: 2-5
Career Level: entry to experienced (non-manager)
Start date: ASAP
Benefits: Excellent expat health insurance, accepted at many top international hospitals throughout mainland China (no vision or dental); visa/apt assistance; casual dress; modern work environment; paid vacation and sick days package; 19 paid Chinese public holidays
Note: PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY IN BEIJING, AND/OR HAVE NO PLANS TO MOVE TO BEIJING! This is NOT a remote opportunity!
Contact: shelleyalevin@gmail.com, wechat (shelleylevin), 18611244601
Description/Responsibilities:
- Train, assist, and consult with our Chinese team on writing in English
- Write original content for online courses for preschoolers (books, songs, scripts for videos, games, etc.)
- Contribute to course development
- Edit written work of colleagues (both Chinese and foreign teams)
- Record videos and songs (about 25% of the job)
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Native English speaker, with acute knowledge of American English
- Z-visa eligible
- Ability to commit to one-year contract
- Excellent writing and editing skills - especially with regard to nitty-gritty details such as vocabulary, grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation
- Previous editing, proofreading, and/or copywriting experience
- Previous teaching experience preferred (especially young children in China)
- Minimum BA, preferably in a Liberal Arts field. Strong preference for English, linguistics, or any subject that requires a lot of writing (communications, sociology, history, etc.)
- High comfort level recording lessons, songs, and stories in English, in a generic American accent, for preschoolers (audio as well as video)
