Assistant editor

Closing date: 17th February 2025

Salary: £29,000-£32,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)

Location: 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.

Are you creative and proactive with strong proofreading skills? Do you love creating ideas for new content and working as part of a close team?

Hachette Children's Group of the UK's largest children's publishers, our mission is to make it easy for children and young people everywhere to access books and see themselves reflected. We aim to maximise our readers' life chances by inspiring a lifelong love of reading, publishing books for every stage of their journey to adulthood from Enid Blyton to Alice Oseman's Heartstopper.

Hachette Children's Group is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

Hachette Children’s Books is looking for an Assistant Editor to join their preschool and picture book team. 

What you'll be doing

• You will play an important role, providing editorial and administrative support across the lists, as well as taking the editorial lead on a number of designated titles - working closely with your design colleagues at every stage. 
• You’ll draft copy for sales sheets and book fair guides, as well as developing storylines and coming up with new format ideas. 
• You’ll read and review submissions and present titles in meetings, as well as supporting the senior editorial team on their titles.
  
  This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning, best-selling preschool and picture book list, and expand your skill set in a wide-ranging and varied role.

Who we are looking for

• We are looking for a highly organised person with strong communication abilities, and a can-do attitude. 
• You will have excellent proof-reading and copy-writing skills, and be a real team-player, happy to turn your hand to a variety of projects. 
• You’ll have a passion for preschool and picture books, and be efficient and self-motivated. 
• A working knowledge of Biblio would be helpful.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

Our commitment

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.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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