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About the Role
This role provides administrative assistance to the VP, Head of Contracts, focusing on drafting, negotiating, and data entry for various contracts and license agreements, particularly for Subrights.
Responsibilities
- Update and track author agreements and amendments workflow and status reports for Subrights.
- Route and email author agreements, amendments, and fee-based contributor agreements using DocuSign.
- Prepare payment information/requests.
- Enter contracts data into the database.
- Register copyright for HBG publications.
- Draft and review contract amendments and fee-based contributor agreements.
- Draft and review subsidiary licenses for specific HBG divisions/imprints.
- Review and respond to publishing rights reversion requests for specific HBG divisions/imprints.
- Update, track, and draft contract cancellations, including tracking repayment plans with the Finance Department.
- Perform other duties as reasonably assigned.
Requirements
- Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Self-starter, able to take ownership of job responsibilities and manage work time efficiently.
- Must submit both a resume and cover letter to be considered.
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- DocuSign
- Contracts drafting
- Contracts negotiation
- Data entry
- Copyright registration
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Organizational skills
- Time management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Temporary
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Temporary Contracts professional
Salary/Compensations
- $24/hour
About the Company
- Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
- The mission of Hachette Book Group is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity.
- At HBG, we are guided by four core pillars: Understanding Consumers, Changing the Story, Owner Mentality, and Growth Mindset.
- As a leading book publisher, we believe that including and representing diverse voices in all aspects of our business is fundamental to what we do.
- Our publishing programs must reflect the broad range of backgrounds, experiences, political views and ideas that shape our society and publish books for all readers.
Equal Opportunity
- Hachette Book Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.