Publicity Assistant (6 month FTC) HQ, Mills & Boon and Pavilion London, England
Job description
Team: HQ, Mills & Boon, and Pavilion
Salary: £26,250
Location: London, UK - Hybrid
Closing: 11:59pm, 23rd Feb 2023 GMT
Perks and benefits
Introduction to the role
HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic Publicity Assistant to join the team at HQ and Mills & Boon on a 6 month FTC. Reporting to the Acting Publicity Director for HQ, Mills & Boon and Pavilion, you will be responsible for the day-to-day administrative running of the department, as well as providing administrative support for the Publicity team, which may require travelling to and attending author and industry events.
Specialising in commercial fiction, non-fiction and innovative digital publishing, HQ is a young, ambitious, and award-winning imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. HQ prides itself on publishing books that are bold, brave, inclusive, and always with a compelling story to tell.
HQ Fiction is proud to publish The Sunday Times bestselling authors such as Adele Parks, Linwood Barclay, Sarah Morgan, Erica James and Carrie Hope Fletcher. Debut novels published by HQ, The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain and This Lovely City by Louise Hare, were shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2021 respectively.
HQ Non-Fiction publishes The Sunday Times bestselling BOSH!, The Batch Lady and The Prison Doctor books, as well as June Sarpong’s award-winning books on Diversity and Inclusion, and Caroline Hirons’ record-breaking and industry-leading book Skincare. In 2022, HQ published Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter’s Menopausing which has been a bestseller for 15 weeks.
Sweeping women off their feet for over 100 years, Mills & Boon is the UK’s #1 publisher of romantic fiction and won the RNA Industry Award for Publisher of the Year 2020. In the UK, a Mills & Boon novel is sold once every ten seconds. It has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time. Mills & Boon publishes Georgia Toffolo’s Sunday Times bestselling novels and historical romance by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Pavilion Books authors include Ravneet Gill, Oz Clarke, Gennaro Contaldo and Joe Swash and specialise in illustrated non-fiction.
Pavilion publish the very best, forward-thinking books on food and drink, art and craft, design, gardening and nature, travel, wellbeing, self-development, gift, and nostalgia.
Core Responsibilities:
- Circulating monthly press releases to journalists
- Creating and sending HQ and HQ Digital’s monthly blogger newsletters
- Logging and circulating media coverage
- Processing invoices and onboarding suppliers for the Publicity department
- Collating group pitches to journalists and festival/event programmers
- Inputting spends on the departmental budget
- Minuting team meetings and circulating notes
- Monitor blogger email inboxes for HQ, HQ Digital, Mills & Boon and Pavilion
Booking and arranging travel and accommodation for author tours and events
- Management of weekly departmental publicity processes
- Serving as the publicity contact for the public and media, via phone and email so that all communication with external stakeholders is efficient and given in a timely manner
Experience required:
• A keen interest in working in working in Publicity • Experience or knowledge of the workings within a publishing house
- Awareness of different media opportunities across print, broadcast and online
- A genuine passion for commercial fiction and non-fiction books
Benefits
Hybrid working model (2+ days in the office)
26 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days)
Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Private healthcare cover and life assurance
Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal
Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme
Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work and Pride at HC
Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes
Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers
Gym membership discount
Onsite physiotherapy (London only)
Charitable donation matching and volunteering day
We're a certified Carbon Neutral company
Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books
Subsidised canteen and retail discounts
Onsite prayer room
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 internships or entry level positions. For more information visit https://www.btbs.org/
