Salary £29,500 - £31,500 (GBP) Depending on skills and experience
Team HQ Non-Fiction
Seniority Mid-level
* Closing:11:55pm, 28th May 2025 BST
Perks and benefits
Work from home option
Wellness programs
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Mentoring/coaching
Cycle to work scheme
Candidate happiness
8.66 (29684)
Job Description
The Assistant Editor will provide broad editorial support for the Publishing Directors and team on the HQ Non-Fiction list. They will have a wide range of responsibilities, which will also include some administrative tasks. They will have direct contact with authors and agents, creative input on jackets and copy, will carry out some structural and line editing and work with stakeholders across the HQ team, including Sales, Marketing and Publicity. The authors the Assistant Editor will be working with include big brand authors and cover the full spectrum of the list.
To be successful in this role you will demonstrate strong desk editing skills, enjoy working on your own initiative, have the ability to juggle competing priorities and anticipate the needs of the Publishing Directors in delivering best-in-class publishing, publishing comms and author care. You will be an excellent communicator, who combines creative flair with an eye for detail, and can work co-operatively within the HQ team.
Core Responsibilities:
Editorial
Working closely with the Publishing Directors and Non-Fiction team on key authors
Training and working with the Editorial Assistant in the team
Writing cover and catalogue copy
Managing all aspects of production on key authors and seeing them through the process
Creating Advance Information sheets as requested, monitoring, and updating them
Checking and collating proofs
ebook editorial checks and creating briefs
Structural and line edits
Organising proofreads and indexing, and collating corrections
Monitoring and inputting metadata across all relevant titles
Monitoring Amazon to ensure copy and jackets are optimised
Proof-reading and checking sales and marketing material, e.g., catalogues, rights sheets, presenters
Proof-reading cover runouts, author presentations, short stories, and other texts
Helping manage reprints: responsibilities include organizing the re-branding of covers, updating prelims
Preparing cover and launch briefs
Organising and creating back ads
Creating author questionnaires, reading group questions and other extra content
Working cross-functionally across Sales, Marketing and Publicity teams
Administration
Liaison on Publishing Director’s behalf with authors, agents, other departments
Provide advance/sample materials to other departments
Tracking materials to/from designers and editors
Organising purchase orders and processing invoices
Looking up TCM figures
Ordering Publication Day presents for authors
Taking minutes, when necessary, at in-house meetings
Any other ad-hoc tasks as instructed
Skills Required
Demonstrable experience of working in a publishing house or editorial
Excellent attention to detail
Proven ability to assess commercial non-fiction projects
An effective multi-tasker, with the ability to cope in a pressurised environment
Organised and able to juggle multiple tasks
Excellent command of the English language
Effective communicator at all levels
Customer focused – ensuring the highest level of author care
Advanced MS Word and Intermediate Excel and Outlook
Experience in InDesign would be a bonus
Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)
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
Onsite physiotherapy (London only)
Charitable donation matching and2 volunteering days
Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books
Subsidised canteen and retail discounts
Onsite prayer room
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.
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