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Reporting to the Fleet Editorial Director you’ll be helping with the administration and project editing on the Fleet and Virago lists, as well as supporting the smooth running of the imprints. Alongside the Fleet Editorial Director, you’ll be working with the Fleet Publisher, Virago Publisher, Virago Publishing Director and Virago Modern Classics Editorial Director.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working with editors to keep information up to date and schedules on track
• Using processes and systems through the whole lifecycle of a book, including contractual paperwork, using effective metadata, supporting with mailings
• Project managing certain titles through production stages
• Writing cover copy, reading submissions and contributing to internal meetings

We’re looking for someone who’s excited to start their publishing career. Strong attention to detail, a willingness to learn and excellent communications skills are essential. You’ll need to be good at balancing priorities, proactively managing schedules and taking ownership of your role in helping to run the Fleet and Virago lists.

We’d like you to be a wide reader, willing to tackle a broad range of books, from novels about witches to bestselling memoirs, exposés from leading journalists to experimental fiction, and we’d love to hear your ideas for how to shape the future of publishing.

Alongside working closely with editors, we’re looking for someone who is excited to work with authors, is able think creatively about publications and is always looking for opportunities to get books into the hands of readers.

Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 28 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 community days per year, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!

The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

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 junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

Fleet and Virago are two of Little, Brown Book Group’s literary imprints, and both are known for publishing bestselling, important, conversation-starting fiction and non-fiction.

Virago is a feminist publishing company, founded in 1973. The list is committed to championing women writers and writers of under-represented genders, and our publishing ranges across literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, graphic novels and classics. Virago’s authors include Monica Ali, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Deborah Frances-White, Caroline O'Donoghue and Sarah Waters.

Fleet is a much younger list, having been founded in 2016. Since its inception, Fleet has been publisher of award-winning and influential fiction and non-fiction, with titles from Colson Whitehead, Claire Messud, Ronan Farrow, Kathleen Stock, Hollie McNish and Imogen West-Knights.