Job
Editorial Assistant
Pan Macmillan
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24d ago
đź’Ľ Graduate Job
London
🤑 £26.5K
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Description
- You will be joining a friendly team during a new and exciting phase of growth. This is a busy and wide-ranging role. A typical day might involve a morning check-in with the other members of the editorial team, followed by writing or checking copy for a book cover or online description. You will be the main port of call for colleagues’ questions about the status of manuscripts or the publishing schedule and responsible for fielding enquiries (internally and externally) for the department. Later, you might arrange approval for payments due to authors whose books are published/recently delivered, or research and contribute ideas – based on your interest in lifestyle non-fiction, self development, food, sustainability and the environment – on a project the team is looking to pursue. You will be responsible for making sure all data is correct on central databases in time for departmental deadlines as well as becoming proficient in all systems and processes.
Requirements
- An intuitive, enthusiastic and inclusive approach
- Self-starting and problem-solving approach
- A passion for self-help, food and mind body spirit titles
- The ability to organise and manage multiple tasks and tight deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Exceptional attention to detail
- A willingness to learn new skills and software.
- Desirable skills we’d love you to have:
- Experience with Google suite and Microsoft Office applications
- A strong interest in non-fiction lifestyle books.
Area of Responsibilities
Media & Journalism
Responsibilities
- Assisting with editorial and administrative tasks, e.g. engaging freelancer paperwork, permissions for picture usage, processing invoices, assisting with processing expenses, preparing texts and prelims for handover to Production, proof mailouts, cover design checks using Adobe Acrobat
- Maintaining and updating information and metadata on our central bibliographic information repository, Biblio
- Assisting team with creating catalogue and book fair information
- Reading and reporting on submissions
- Arranging author meetings and other in-house and external meetings, preparing any necessary minutes and agendas
- Maintaining key contact address books and other live resources
- Ordering copies of printed books for authors and agents and associated mailings
- Reporting on sales figures
- General departmental admin.
Details
Work type
Full time
Work mode
office
Application deadline
Apr 30, 2024
Location
London
Salary
26500 GBP
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Discounted private medical insurance
- Group income protection scheme
- Enhanced family pay and leave
- Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
- 2 volunteer days per year
- 75% off all Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
- Season ticket loan/advance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
- Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch