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About the Role

This role offers a rare opportunity for an enthusiastic, energetic, and highly organised Editorial Assistant to join the fiction team at Viking, Penguin General. You will provide editorial and administrative support to the Executive Publisher and a commissioning editor, managing the internal book process, reading submissions, writing cover copy, and acting as a point of contact for authors and agents.

Responsibilities

• General administration e.g. booking meeting rooms, arranging couriers, taking calls and minuting meetings, processing expenses, coding invoices, sending out proof mailings
• Diary management: organising meetings, making reservations, organising schedules for book fairs and overseas trips
• Managing the internal book process under supervision, from acquisition to publication, to ensure that deadlines are met
• Reading submissions and sharing verbal and written feedback
• Writing persuasive cover copy
• Managing the input and accuracy of title metadata on our publishing systems
• Acting as a point of contact for authors and agents, including accompanying authors on bookshop tours or events on occasion.

Requirements

• An avid reader of literary fiction
• A proactive, positive, can-do attitude
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work to, and meet, deadlines
• Ability to respond and adjust to fast-changing priorities, and be calm and reliable under pressure
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships across the business and with authors and agents.

Skills

• Editorial support
• Administrative support
• Diary management
• Book process management
• Submission reading
• Cover copy writing
• Metadata management
• Author and agent liaison

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry level

Salary/Compensations

• £29,000

Benefits

• Benefits

About the Company

• Penguin General is one of the publishing divisions that make up Penguin Random House UK.
• There are five imprints at Penguin General: Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Life, Viking and Sandycove.
• At Viking, we publish a select range of bestselling, prize-winning novelists to reach the broadest possible audience.
• We pride ourselves on our ability to launch brilliant new careers and take established authors to new heights, combining critical success with commercial ambition.
• We are also home to some of the greatest writers of the past century and never stop championing the timeless classics on our backlist, from John Steinbeck to Gabriel García Márquez.
• At Penguin General, we strive for working life to be progressive, energising, motivating, and rewarding for all our colleagues at every level.
• We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.

Equal Opportunity

• As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role and opt in on their application form.