A key member of the editorial team, this role provides editorial and administrative support to the colour publishing team. The position offers a rare opportunity for an accurate, organised, efficient and creative team-player to step into an entry level editorial role in children’s publishing with a dynamic team producing exceptional picture books and brand publishing.

 Key tasks and accountabilities:

• Supporting the editorial team across the list in maintaining due process and keeping to schedules.

• Desk editorial responsibilities – proofreading, some copyediting, copywriting – for a range of  titles, including digital formats.

• Responsibility for upkeep of correction files, attending the reprint meetings, marking up and checking reprints in progress, including corrections, updating end matter, etc.  Ensuring all books that reprint do so with all relevant corrections made and checked, all in good time for the reprint schedule.

• Responsibility for briefing all ebook versions and checking ebook files according to schedules

• Market research as required by the senior editorial team including Bookscan, retailer visits, picture and competitor research in order to provide supporting materials for strategic planning and acquisitions.

• Managing relevant editorial listings (AIS, BIC, Acquisitions forms, P&Ls) to ensure accurate and up-to-date title/list information is available internally and externally. Ensure that editorial Plan G listings, including AIS, are complete, accurate and in line with best practises for online visibility and SEO

• Coordinating editorial content for bookfair catalogues, and proofreading and inputting corrections, ensuring efficient and timely coordination of editorial content from early stages to endpoint

• Managing the distribution of advances internally and externally

• Organising pub date gifts

• Updating authors and agents with sales data

• Processing of contracts and invoicing

General admin for team such as co-ordinating big meetings and compiling of decks etc

Skills required:

• Exceptional proofreading skills and an eye for detail

• Excellent communication style and relationship management skills

• Genuine interest in children’s books and publishing generally

• Organised, efficient, self motivated

•   Good design eye

• Team player

• Solutions-focused

Benefits

• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

• 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

• 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

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers

• Gym membership discount

• Onsite physiotherapy (London only)

• Charitable donation matching and 2 volunteering days

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company

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

• Subsidised canteen and retail discounts

• Onsite prayer room 

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking internships or entry level positions. For more information visit  https://www.btbs.org/

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to recruitment@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.