Editorial assistant, Bloomsbury Digital Resources

Closing date for applications: 3 October 2025

Salary: £27,000

Kickstart your publishing career at Bloomsbury! Gain hands-on experience supporting the development of digital resources that are shaping learning across humanities, social sciences and the arts.

We’re offering an exciting opportunity to play a key role in content acquisition and product development within Bloomsbury Digital Resources (BDR). As an editorial assistant in our digital department, you’ll provide essential administrative and editorial support to help drive the growth of our digital portfolio across both the humanities and social sciences (HSS) and visual and performing arts (V&PA) teams.

This role requires a highly organised, proactive individual with excellent time management and prioritisation skills. You’ll need to be adaptable, collaborative, and confident in communicating with internal stakeholders and external partners. While primarily administrative, this position is vital to the success of BDR and offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with digital publishing products and business models.


Responsibilities

• Support product development: support editorial acquisition teams across portfolios to commission and develop digital products, conduct market research, and compile title lists and metadata
• Manage rights and contracts: oversee contracts, rights clearance, and royalty administration, ensuring accurate data entry and compliance with licensing requirements
• Support initiatives: assist with projects led by senior leadership and act as a product champion to promote engagement and enthusiasm internally and externally
• Coordinate editorial systems: maintain editorial records and serve as the departmental lead for workflow systems such as Biblio, BDR Wiki, and AI Taskforce

Knowledge, skills & experience

• Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to multitask, prioritise, and remain calm under pressure
• Experience managing small to medium-sized projects
• Detail-oriented with a solutions-focused mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for both internal and external interactions
• Proactive, positive attitude with a willingness to learn
• Interest in digital publishing; experience in academic publishing is a plus
• Ability to self-manage workload and collaborate effectively within a team
• Solid administrative experience is desirable

Additional information

The role is a full-time, permanent position. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are: Wednesday and Thursday.

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

Please apply with a CV and answer the application form questions via our website detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Friday 3rd of October 2025. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.


Bloomsbury benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday and 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see our careers page

The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.

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