Content Specialist – English

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual flight allowance

Annual performance bonus

Education allowance

Health and Life insurance

Enhanced leave policy

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Alef Education in Abu Dhabi seeks a Content Specialist to own English curriculum content across digital lessons, activities, videos and assessments. You will ensure alignment with instructional frameworks and global English standards, coordinating with product, design, and education teams.

The role requires a strong background in English education, curriculum development, and EdTech, with a focus on quality and classroom implementation. A hybrid work model is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to write clear, accurate English content for learners.
• Experience in validating content against curriculum standards.
• Strong editing and QA capabilities for educational materials.

Responsibilities

• Combine user research, qualitative insight, and product data to guide decisions.
• Define success metrics and measure impact of changes.
• Deliver accurate, engaging English content across lessons, activities and assessments.
• Ensure content aligns with instructional framework and is age-appropriate.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure release readiness and quality.

Skills

Content writing

Editing

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor's degree in English

Teaching qualification or degree in Education

Job description

# Content Specialist – EnglishApply Now* Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Alef\\_Abu\\_Dhabi)* Posted 5 Days Ago* Office - Flexible* FulltimeWho we areFounded in 2016, Alef Education (ALEFEDT on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange) is an award-winning AI powered learning solutions provider redefining K to 12 education. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company serves approximately 2.0 million students and 84,000 educators across 19,000 schools in the UAE, Indonesia, and Morocco.Its flagship Alef Platform delivers personalized learning experiences that enhance student engagement and outcomes, while its supplemental solutions Alef Pathways, Abjadiyat, and Arabits extend learning across subjects and languages.Through its innovative use of artificial intelligence, data insights, and culturally relevant content, Alef Education is transforming teaching and learning to advance equity, access, and excellence for every student. About The Role**Content Specialist** aassures high-quality English curriculum, digital learning content and assessments for primary and secondary learners. You will own assigned content through the full product-development cycle, ensuring curriculum alignment, pedagogical quality, effective digital implementation and release readiness while working with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and continuously improve the product using quality findings and implementation feedback.Key Responsibilities:* Combine user research, qualitative insight, and product data to guide decisions.* Define what success looks like and measure whether changes improved the experience.* Focus on a small set of meaningful metrics.* Deliver accurate, engaging English content aligned with the instructional framework.* Write, review and quality assure English teaching and learning content, including digital lessons, interactive activities, videos, assessments and teacher-facing resources.* Apply curriculum, pedagogical and digital-learning principles to ensure content is accurate, engaging, age-appropriate, culturally appropriate and suitable for classroom implementation.* Design and review assessments, practice activities and feedback to ensure curriculum alignment, appropriate challenge, scoring validity and meaningful evidence of learner progress.* Manage assigned content through the full development cycle, including planning, author briefing, writing, creative review, platform build, quality assurance and release readiness.* Own an assigned defined product area, maintaining content quality, tracking deliverables, managing risks and resolving issues through each stage of production.* Brief authors and suppliers, provide clear and actionable feedback, and coordinate with product, design, production, technology, marketing, training and implementation teams.* Review content in the platform to confirm that text, audio, images, interactions, feedback and assessment scoring function as intended.* Use implementation feedback, learner evidence and recurring quality findings to recommend improvements to content, products and production processes.* Support the development of product information, training materials, implementation guidance, project proposals and content-development estimates.To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need* Bachelor’s degree in English, Education or a related subject; a recognised teaching qualification or degree in Education is required* Minimum five years of relevant experience in English education, curriculum development, educational publishing or EdTech, including experience developing K–12 digital learning content; experience working within the GCC or MENA education sector is preferred* Experience interpreting curriculum standards and translating them into learning outcomes, lesson plans and content requirements.* Knolwedge of curriculum interpretation and alignment* English subject knowledge and pedagogy* Digital learning and instructional design knowledge* Experience in assessment design and review* Strong in content writing, editing and quality assurance* Fluency in EnglishWhat we offerWe believe our people are our greatest advantage. We value curiosity, purpose, and the drive to make a real difference. When you join Alef, you join a mission — and a team that’s just as passionate about transforming education as you are.Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:* Annual flight allowance* Annual performance bonus* Education allowance* Health and Life insurance* Enhanced leave policy* A hybrid work model and remote working days to work from anywhereAt Alef, we don’t just imagine a better future for education.We build it — together.https://www.alefeducation.com/