Content Specialist - English

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Health and Life insurance

Enhanced leave policy

Hybrid work model

Remote working days

Job summary

Alef Education in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Content Specialist to own English curriculum and digital learning content for primary and secondary learners. You will manage content through the full product development cycle, ensuring alignment with curriculum, pedagogical quality, and release readiness while collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in English or Education, at least five years in English education or EdTech, and strong writing, editing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Education or related subject
• A recognised teaching qualification or degree in Education is required
• Minimum five years in English education, curriculum development or EdTech
• Experience developing K–12 digital learning content
• Experience interpreting curriculum standards and translating into outcomes
• Knowledge 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 English

Responsibilities

• Combine user research, qualitative insight, and product data to guide decisions.
• Define what success looks like and measure improvements.
• Deliver accurate, engaging English content aligned with the instructional framework.
• Write, review and quality assure English teaching and learning content, including digital lessons, activities, videos, assessments and resources.
• Apply curriculum, pedagogical and digital-learning principles to ensure content is accurate, engaging, age-appropriate and suitable for classroom implementation.
• Design and review assessments, practice activities and feedback to ensure curriculum alignment and meaningful evidence of learner progress.
• Manage assigned content through the full development cycle, including planning, author briefing, writing, creative review, platform build, QA and release readiness.
• Own an assigned product area, maintaining content quality, tracking deliverables, managing risks and resolving issues across stages.
• Brief authors and suppliers, provide feedback, and coordinate with product, design, production, technology, marketing, training and implementation teams.
• Review content in the platform to confirm text, audio, images, interactions, feedback and scoring function as intended.
• Use implementation feedback and quality findings to recommend improvements to content and processes.
• Support development of product information, training materials, implementation guidance, proposals and content-development estimates.

Skills

Content development

Curriculum alignment

English content writing

Editing

Quality assurance

Instructional design

Educational publishing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in English or Education

Job description

Employee

Job Description

Who we are

Founded 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; ex perience 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 English

What we offer

We 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 performance bonus
• Health and Life insurance
• Enhanced leave policy
• A hybrid work model and remote working days to work from anywhere

At Alef, we don’t just imagine a better future for education.

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