As Publicity Assistant you will join Barrington Stoke’s small and friendly, highly effective and hard-working Marketing and PR team. You will be working with big name, established children’s authors and illustrators, for an innovative award-winning imprint, which specialises in publishing top quality accessible short fiction to enable every child to become a reader.

This role is ideally suited to an organised and detail-focused candidate who has initiative and energy. We are looking for someone with a passion for children’s books, PR and marketing, who is looking to kick start their career in the publishing sector.

Key tasks and accountabilities

• Support the PR Manager with all new title campaigns, backlist promotion and author care

• Organise Press Mailings

• Support author and company events, coordinating logistics, sending materials and book stock (some weekend and evening work required)

• Handle award submissions and associated tasks

• Organising author travel

• Assist with key publicity tracking documents

• Stay in tune with children’s publishing to maintain awareness of the market

Skills required

• A motivated and proactive self-starter with a can do attitude and the ability to remain calm under pressure

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Collaborative team player

• Attention to details and excellent organisational skills

• Have a genuine passion for children’s books and Barrington Stoke’s mission to offer high quality accessible stories to reluctant and struggling young readers

Benefits

• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days)

• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

• Private healthcare cover and life assurance

• Summer Hours

• Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal

• Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme

• Relocation Rent Support Loan

• Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work

• Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers

• Charitable donation matching and 2 volunteering days

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company

• Free e-books and audiobooks, digital newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books

  At HarperCollins, we value authenticity and integrity in our recruitment process. To ensure a fair and accurate evaluation of all applications, we ask that all responses to assessment questions reflect your own thoughts, experiences, and capabilities.  This allows us to fairly assess your knowledge, skills, and experience to determine how they align with the role. We value diverse perspectives and genuine contributions, even if answers are not perfect. The use of AI tools or external assistance to generate responses is discouraged unless explicitly permitted for specific tasks.

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to stephanie.jemmett@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.