Editorial assistant

Closing date: 19th September 2024

Salary: £27,000 based in London; £24,840 based in Sheffield (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role can be based at our London or Sheffield office with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Are you a resourceful and proactive team player with a keen eye for the latest TV drama or wellness trends?

Orion is seeking a detail-oriented and enthusiastic Editorial Assistant to join our award-winning and dynamic non-fiction publishing team.

At Orion, we believe every story matters. Open, agile, passionate and innovative, our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Ambitious to continually raise the bar, we believe good stories can come from anywhere and so encourage and value contributions from everybody here.

Orion is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

Orion commercial non-fiction is comprised of four distinct imprints: Seven Dials, our central home for commercial non-fiction, Orion Spring, our health and wellbeing imprint, Trapeze, our conversation-starting list publishing across non-fiction and fiction, and our new currently unnamed smart-thinking imprint. We are a dynamic team of six senior commissioners and three supporting editors and assistants who are passionate about maintaining our reputation as an exciting home for talent publishing across genres.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will report to the Editorial Director of Orion Spring, and will also support the Editorial Director of Seven Dials and Executive Publisher of Commercial Non-Fiction. You will also provide essential support to our wider Orion non-fiction team, alongside another Editorial Assistant.

As an Editorial Assistant, your key responsibilities will include:

• Administrative support: Handle general office tasks, manage internal systems, organise meetings, take minutes, generate reports, track publishing timelines, update Biblio, process invoices, submit books for awards, manage book proof mailouts, and assist the team of commissioners and editors.
• Editorial tasks: Proofread covers, write copy, prepare paperback editions for production, address author and agent queries, and handle reprint corrections.

You will also collaborate with various departments, including editorial, design, production, sales, marketing, and publicity.

Join us and help keep our publishing operations running smoothly while contributing to a vibrant and successful team.

Who we're looking for

The ideal candidate will be:

• Passionate, adaptable, and positive
• Excited by the most commercial non-fiction publishing i.e. memoir, cookery, true crime, self-help, parenting and gift
• Strong general knowledge across various topics
• Exceptional organisational skills with a keen eye for detail
• Proficient at multitasking and prioritising tasks effectively
• Confident communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
• Experienced in administration with knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Proven office experience is essential. Some publishing experience would be an advantage.

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