Editorial Assistant

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Bonnier Books Full time

**Job title: Editorial Assistant**

**Reports to: Melissa Cox, Zaffre Publishing Director**

**Department: Zaffre, Zaffre Publishing Group**

**Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London**

**Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 per annum (depending on experience)**

**General Summary**

The Zaffre Publishing Group - Bonnier Books UK's largest adult publishing division - is looking for an editorial assistant to join its flagship adult fiction imprint.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a collaborative publishing team, where you’ll find out first-hand how the book-making process works and have the opportunity to work with a variety of authors from brands to debuts in all genres.

Key responsibilities are to support the fiction team with administrative, research and file-maintenance tasks, with special responsibility for scheduling, minute-taking, reprints, and maintaining Biblio data.

**Key responsibilities**
- Oversee the scheduling and editorial critical paths of Zaffre titles to ensure publication runs to schedule
- Manage freelance copy editors and proof-readers, taking in corrections and working with editorial team to manage changes and update manuscripts
- Assist with setting titles up in Biblio - our publishing database system - and ensuring all metadata is complete at key milestones and updated regularly
- Report on submissions and contribute to discussions about potential new title acquisitions
- Minuting team meetings and divisional meetings
- Attend editorial and wider divisional meetings
- Invoice processing
- Implement and utilise all relevant editorial checklists.
- Acting as the main point of contact for author queries, resolving problems and answering questions promptly and accurately.
- Liaising with other members of the fiction team as well as colleagues from other departments such as production, design, marketing, and sales.
- Assist in securing endorsements for all titles
- Send out proof and finished copies to authors, agents and media contacts
- Send title information to literary festivals
- Update reviews on Biblio for titles both pre-and post-publication
- Contribute to social media updates for all imprints
- Clear permissions for images and quotes
- Writing and editing marketing and back cover copy, where appropriate.
- Assisting with the development of new book projects by conducting market research
- Liaise and help to coordinate 3rd-party contributors and freelancers
- Assist with scheduling book fair appointments
- Additional administrative duties, as required

**Qualifications and Experience**
- An ambitious and creative self-starter with a passion for books
- A proactive, energetic and enthusiastic person who is diligent and full of creative ideas.
- An interest in learning and developing editorial skills within a fast-paced and outward-looking department.
- Ability to manage jobs from inception to completion to the highest standard
- A literate communicator - both verbally and in written correspondence
- Able to work across function with the ability to pivot tasks dependent on direction and priority at any given time
- Works well under pressure
- Well versed in essential Microsoft and/or Apple office packages
- Demonstrates inclusivity and tolerance at all time
- Previous editorial publishing experience is not essential

Competitive Salary

Working with a team of passionate, talented people

Internal learning and development programmes

Career Development opportunities

Fun social events

At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.

The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

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