Editorial Assistant, Audio London, England
Job description
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
So, if you’d like to help to shape the future of audiobooks, the fastest-growing area of publishing, please apply to us with a CV and cover letter by the end of the day on Sunday 14th May.
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.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.
We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at http://[email protected]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: http://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability
We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: https://btbs.org/grants
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
