Editorial Assistant/Assistant Editor

HarperCollins Publishers

Location London, UK
Salary Permanent
  • Closing: 11:00am, 28th Sep 2020 BST

Perks and benefits

Work from home option
Healthcare
Retirement benefits
Wellness programs
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Extra holiday
Professional development
Mentoring/coaching
Paid volunteer days
Flexible benefits scheme
Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness

8.68 (23749)

Job Description

4th Estate is one of the most innovative and eclectic imprints in the industry, with a reputation for publishing a wide variety of critically acclaimed and beautifully produced titles.

Recent fiction includes Hilary Mantel’s  novels, The Mirror and the Light, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Costa Novel Award winner Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor, Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom,  Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl and Orange Prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah; while recent non-fiction includes Costa Biography winner In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott, the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Leviathan by Philip Hoare, Siddharta Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies, James Gleick’s Royal Society Winton Prize-winning The Information, Ben Goldacre’s bestselling Bad Pharm, Hadley Freeman’s House of Glass,  Andre Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches and Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles, Greenfeast.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Assistant/Assistant Editor to take on a key role within a celebrated, successful imprint. This role is responsible for the following:

  • Project manage Publishing Director’s titles from outsourcing copy edit through to finished books including illustrated books

  • Providing editorial support to the Publishing Director

  • Reading submissions

  • Work closely with the production team, Publishing Operations Director and marketing

  • Liaising with authors, illustrators and managing freelance copyeditors and proof-readers, ensuring plants costs are in line with budget for each project

  • Helping to brief jackets and liaising with designers, seeing covers through from start to finish

  • Copywriting and checking sales/marketing material, e.g. catalogues, sales presenters etc.

  • Managing relevant editorial listings (AIs, Plan G Acquisitions) to ensure accurate and up-to-date title/list information is available internally and externally

  • Liaise with rights team over cover rights clearance for international use

Key Skills/Experience:

  • Demonstrable experience of working within the publishing industry

  • Knowledge of the end to end publishing processes

  • Excellent publishing market knowledge

  • The ability to build strong author and agent relationships

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Able to take initiative and problem solve

  • Creative 

  • Extremely organised

  • A keen eye for detail

  • Interpersonal and diplomacy skills

Please note that earlier applications may be prioritised.

Overview of HarperCollins

HarperCollins UK is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 17 countries, and was named Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards 2018. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 unique imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishers approximately 10,000 new books every year, in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalogue of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins UK has offices in London, Glasgow and Honley, and can be found online at www.harpercollins.co.uk.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Mon 28th Sep 2020

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Mon 28th Sep 2020