Editorial Assistant, Audio

We have an exciting opportunity to join our innovative and ground-breaking Audio team as an Editorial Assistant.

**About the Audio team**

At Penguin Random House Audio, the UK’s leading audiobook publisher, we are dedicated to making the very best audiobooks. Working with exceptional acting talent, producers and studios, we publish award-winning and bestselling audiobooks such as Richard Osman’s _The Thursday Murder Club _series, Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker-winning _Girl, Woman, Other_, Stephen Fry’s _Troy _and Dr Julie Smith’s _Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? _Our team also includes BBC Audio, where we commercialise curated collections of BBC Radio’s spoken word content. In addition to its extensive backlist catalogue, BBC Audio publishes a wide range of entertainment, with comedy series including _Just a Minute_ and _I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue_; sci-fi and fantasy programmes such as _Doctor Who _and_ The Lord of the Rings_, and radio drama based on the works of writers including Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Alan Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle.

We have an opportunity for an Editorial Assistant to join us, working across our Penguin Random House Audio and BBC Audio publishing. You’ll play a key role in the running of our editorial teams, as well as working with the wider audio department and external partners to contribute to the efficient delivery of our publishing programmes.

**The opportunity**

Your day-to-day work will be varied. You’ll be working closely with all our editorial teams, supporting Editors by ensuring the smooth running of our editorial workflows.

You can expect to be:

- Supporting the editorial teams administratively: processing invoices, arranging meetings and taking and circulating minutes, sending out author and agent copies, and running reports on Biblio (our system for storing key data around books)
- Liaising with our in-house studio team and preparing manuscripts for recordings.
- Booking travel for talent
- Working with US Publishers to share information and schedules for global publications
- Writing audio-specific metadata for BBC audiobooks, and proofing BBC library artwork
- Managing the flow of information to support our commissioning process, such as compiling and sharing details of newly scheduled releases with our Finance, Bibliographic and Operations teams
- Working with our Managing Editor and Operations departments to ensure our audio releases provide a seamless listening experience
- Actioning monthly piracy checks on new publications and collating reviews
- Building strong relationships with key internal colleagues across the audio team, and within the publishing houses and production teams.

**What you’ll bring**

If you’re a keen audiobook listener and have a real interest in stories and ideas for the audio format, we want to hear from you.

You will have exceptional organisation and time management skills, with an ability to multi-task and handle competing priorities. We’ll need you to be a strong team player with great attention to detail and be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.

**How to apply**

As part of your cover letter, please answer the following question (in no more than 200 words): _Tell us about a recent audiobook you listened to, and why you thought it was fantastic._

**What you can expect from us**:
**Salary**: You‘ll start on £26,500. Expect a £1,000 increase on your first anniversary in this role to reflect your growing contribution.

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

- 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
- Medical cover
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Generous pension scheme
- Summer working hours (role dependent)
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mentoring programme
- Extended gender neutral parental leave
- Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
- Each site has trained mental health first aiders
- We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

**Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.**

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

**Company**: The Random House Group Limited

**Country**: United Kingdom

**State/Region**: London

**City**:London

**Postal Code**: SW11

**Job ID**: 260004