Campaigns assistant

Closing date for applications: 25 September 2025

Salary: £25,000

Working hours: 9.30am - 5.30pm, Monday to Friday

Location: London, hybrid - minimum of two days per week in the office

Interview dates: 6 and 7 October 2025

Start date: October 2025

Are you a skilled communicator with a passion for books and media? From author events to press coverage, gain hands-on experience supporting standout publicity and marketing campaigns behind a diverse and exciting publishing list.

Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house founded in 2000. We have since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes literary and commercial fiction, history, politics, memoir, current affairs, health, and personal development. Atlantic Books is a founding member of The Independent Alliance, a global alliance of UK publishers and their international partners. It was formed in 2005 and is now the fourth largest publishing group in the UK, allowing Atlantic to reach the widest possible market for its authors. At Atlantic, we strive to make our publishing as reflective of society as possible. That speaks to both the books we help put out into the world, but also our staff and network of contacts we speak to on a daily basis: from copyeditors to designers, animators to reviewers.

The campaigns assistant role provides administrative and campaign support to the publicity and marketing teams. They are responsible for key regular communications between the publicity team and the media, oversee the creation of key internal documents such as meeting forms and notes, and are responsible for the timely submission of prize applications and other promotional materials.


Key activities

• Acting as first point of contact for general media inquiries and providing assistance where needed e.g. mailing review copies, emailing cover images
• Managing media clippings: logging electronic clippings daily and circulating weekly round-ups to all stakeholders
• Assisting with event organisation: includes liaising with bookshops/festivals, compiling author schedules, liaising with the sales team, designing invitations and showcards, coordinating guest lists, ordering catering, scheduling social media assets
• Attending and assisting at company and author events (mostly out of office hours): this can include set up and take down, serving drinks, taking photos and videos for social media, selling books, accompanying authors to book signings
• Mailing materials (books, proofs, POS, catalogues) to media contacts and booksellers
• Managing prize submissions: logging prize information on the database, maintaining prize folders and sending materials via post and email
• Compiling and mailing information and material for The Bookseller on a monthly basis: new fiction titles, new non-fiction titles, paperbacks, category spotlights, Booksellers Choice
• Creating and sending the monthly Press Dates email to media contacts
• Collating material for The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide
• Management of the bi-annual Atlantic Books new titles catalogue
• Undertaking ad-hoc campaign research tasks to assist the publicity and marketing teams
• Assisting in maintenance of the bound proof process including managing quantities
• Helping maintain company social media accounts, with a focus on Instagram
• Maintaining contacts databases
• Booking travel and accommodation for authors
• Processing expenses and invoices for both publicity and marketing
• Minute-taking and form ownership for lead titles and campaigns meetings
• Compiling data for quarterly campaign review meeting
• Monitoring and responding to generic department email inboxes
• Ordering stationery

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrable knowledge of and genuine interest in publicity and traditional print/online/broadcast media and events as it relates to book promotion
• Demonstrable knowledge of and genuine interest in social media and content creation
• Facility with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)
• Exceptional communication, organisation, prioritisation and time management skills
• Outstanding attention to detail in all tasks
• Adaptability and ability to problem solve and show initiative
• Ability to anticipate team support needs and respond dynamically
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

To apply

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• Upload your CV and cover letter as one document (applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted)
• Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully
• Do not contact the company directly
• Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, people with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.

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