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About the Role

We are looking for a Communications Assistant to join our Publicity Team at Penguin General. This role provides general administrative support to the Publicity team to facilitate the smooth running of the department, acts as a point of contact for the press, and supports publicists with book launches.

Responsibilities

• Provide general administrative support to the Publicity team.
• Organise meetings and take minutes.
• Produce and send out press releases.
• Code invoices and process expenses.
• Send out books.
• Act as a point of contact for the press.
• Regularly communicate with journalists and authors.
• Support publicists with their book launches.
• Accompany authors to interviews and events.
• Organise schedules, travel, and accommodation for authors.
• May involve out of hours work on weekends and evenings to attend events and festivals.

Requirements

• Strong personal organisation and time management skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Proactive and reactive - ability to multitask and handle competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of people on email, phone and in person.
• Solutions focused.
• Flexibility and helpfulness.
• Taking initiative.
• A strong team player.
• The ability to work on your own – and to push yourself.
• A positive mindset.
• The ability to think creatively.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Time management
• Attention to detail
• Multitasking
• Problem-solving

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote
• Onsite

Salary/Compensations

• £29,000

Benefits

• Benefits

About the Company

• Penguin General is one of the eight publishing divisions that make up Penguin Random House UK.
• Penguin General publish some of the very best storytellers and thinkers in the world, spanning literary fiction classics such as John le Carré and Bernardine Evaristo; non-fiction bestsellers including Ben Macintyre, Arundhati Roy and Michelle Obama; and chart-topping fiction writers such as Richard Osman, Emily Henry and Dolly Alderton.
• Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
• We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.

Equal Opportunity

• Disability Confident