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About the Role
This is a rare opportunity to join a new publishing team at the beginning of its journey, helping to build an ambitious, creative and successful imprint. You’ll have a broad and varied role supporting the day-to-day running of the imprint and contributing to its development.
Responsibilities
- Managing editorial schedules and critical paths, keeping projects organised, information accurate and books moving towards publication
- Providing editorial support across projects, including proofreading and second-eye checks, with the opportunity to take on increasing editorial responsibility as you develop
- Working directly with authors, illustrators and agents, providing thoughtful and responsive stakeholder care
- Writing and editing copy, metadata, presentations and other publishing materials
- Attending key meetings as required, and communicating clearly with colleagues and external partners about project status and next steps
- Working closely with colleagues across design, production, sales, marketing, publicity and rights
- Reading submissions and contributing your perspective to editorial discussions
- Contributing ideas for individual books, new series, original IP, positioning, packaging or ways to connect our publishing with readers
Requirements
- At least two years publishing experience in an editorial department
- Have a good understanding of audience and market
- Creative and curious – full of ideas and tuned into our audience’s interests
- Highly organised – able to juggle multiple projects and deadlines with excellent attention to detail
- Editorially minded – with a love of stories and language, and an instinct for what makes them work
- Reader focussed – interested not only in whether a book is good, but who it is for and what could make readers choose it
- Collaborative and flexible – a team player who adapts easily as priorities and projects evolve
- Confident and proactive – comfortable asking questions, following things up and taking responsibility
- Open-minded – a good problem solver who is excited by the idea that there may be more than one way to do something
- Candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered interviews
Skills
- Passion for children’s publishing
- Good understanding of audience and market
- Editorial support
- Proofreading
- Second-eye checks
- Working with authors, illustrators and agents
- Writing copy
- Editing copy
- Writing metadata
- Editing metadata
- Writing presentations
- Editing presentations
- Writing publishing materials
- Editing publishing materials
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem solving
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Three days per week in the London office (including Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
- Two days per week remote
Experience Level
- At least two years publishing experience in an editorial department
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £31,000 dependent on skills and experience, plus bonus and benefits
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
About the Company
- Penguin Random House Children’s is launching a new imprint: a vibrant publishing home for authors and illustrators with big ambitions for young readers.
- We believe children need more choice, more variety and more opportunities to discover books they love.
- This new imprint has been created to publish standout books across children's and YA publishing, connecting exceptional creative talent with the widest possible readership.
- This will be a small, highly ambitious team with a start-up mindset.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.
Equal Opportunity
- Disability Confident Committed organisation