Contracts assistant

Closing date: 30th October 2025

Starting salary: £27,000

Contract details: This is a full-time position and is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near to London Bridge.

Nosy Crow is looking to recruit an organised and enthusiastic individual to join our busy team as a contracts assistant.

Nosy Crow is a multi-award winning, independent children’s publishing company with operations in both the UK and the USA. We make child-focused, parent-friendly children’s books for ages 0-12.

The contracts department handles approximately 1,500 contractual paperwork requests per annum which includes author and illustrator contracts, subsidiary rights agreements, licensing agreements, permission requests and other ad-hoc legal queries.

The role of contracts assistant is to assist the contracts team and the rights team with administrative tasks related to contracts management, rights management and renewal processes. This role would suit a recent publishing graduate or someone who is keen to kickstart their career in publishing or looking for in-house contracts and rights experience.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities and tasks will range from:

• Working closely with the rest of the contracts team in implementing a strong contracts management system across the company
• General contractual admin support
• Assisting the rights team with contracts and renewals
• Assisting the contracts team with all contractual matters relating to our subsidiary company, Nosy Crow Inc
• Creating and maintaining head contracts, foreign rights and permissions logs,
• Adding all new requests and keeping logs up-to-date
• Helping with permissions enquiries both inbound and outbound
• Entering data for head contracts and foreign rights contracts onto the Biblio database
• Digitising and archiving physical contracts
• Processing contracts for signature using DocuSign and sending out invoices
• Assisting ad-hoc editorial, rights, design, sales, publicity & marketing with queries relating to previous contractual terms

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Interest in rights and contracts
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Fine attention to detail (essential)
• Organised, with the ability to prioritise effectively
• Previous work experience demonstrating reliability, team work, computer literacy and attention to detail, not necessarily in publishing
• A team player with a willingness to be fully involved in the business
• Interest in Copyright and Contract law (desirable)
• Opportunity to learn to draft contracts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is essential, including Excel
• No prior publishing experience is necessary in order to apply for the role

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Christmas closure
• Summer hours
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Income Protection
• Critical Illness cover
• Group Life Assurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Up to 80% off RRP for Nosy Crow book purchases
• Emergency loans
• Free fruit and snacks in the office
• Moving day leave
• Charitable/socially beneficial leave
• Remote working anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks per year

To apply

• Please email your CV, accompanied by a covering letter of no more than 500 words outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting opportunity, to Rhianna Sandford via the 'Apply' button with the subject heading Contracts Assistant role, telling us where you heard about the job.

Additional information

The successful candidate will have the right to live and work in the UK.

The closing date for applications is the 30th October at midnight (UK time).

Nosy Crow is a member of the Living Wage foundation.

Nosy Crow is an Disability Confident, committed equal opportunities employer. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is an important factor in success and make recruiting decisions based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership.

Please let us know if you are comfortable doing so, whether or not there are any reasonable adjustments that we should consider that would help during the recruitment process.

Applications are treated with due confidentiality.

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