Editorial operations assistant

Closing date for applications: Thursday 19th March 2026 23:59

Salary: £27,000

Location: London

Kick-start your publishing career at Bloomsbury, supporting the Adult Editorial team with the systems, reporting and coordination behind a leading trade list.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.

Our mission is to be a creative, entrepreneurial, independent publisher of books, audiobooks and digital content of excellence and originality and to bring these works to a worldwide audience. Our purpose is to inform, educate, entertain and inspire readers of all ages and backgrounds. We champion a life-long love of reading and learning and seek to help build a reading culture with all the benefits which that brings society.

We are looking for an Editorial Operations Assistant to join the Adult Editorial team at Bloomsbury Publishing, the home of authors such as Samantha Shannon, William Dalrymple, Kiley Reid, Stuart Turton, Georgina Hayden and Poppy O’Toole. This is a wonderful opportunity to join the British Book Awards’ current Publisher of the Year in an entry-level role. You’ll be an enthusiastic, efficient person and you’ll assist the entire department with day-to-day administrative and editorial support. Your work will bring you into contact with all members of the department, and there will be opportunities to learn about the whole publishing process. The team sits within the Consumer division, and reports to the Head of Editorial Operations.

The role
Your work will mainly involve the following, with other departmental admin tasks as required:

Administrative and editorial support:

• Assisting with day-to-day administration in order to centralise the management of the running of the department and support the editorial team
• Responsibility for freelancer onboarding
• Biblio maintenance: keeping the source of all our data for our titles as up-to-date and smoothly running as possible
• Contact for multi-region editions (MREs) originating from Bloomsbury USA
• Checking epubs and reprint covers and approving for press

Assistant to Head of Editorial Operations:

• Arranging and minuting meetings, running and circulating reports
• Acting as the team contact for queries from other departments
• Processing expenses

Assistant to Editor-in-Chief:

• Managing diary, expenses and travel
• Running reports and schedules from Biblio and other data sources
• Assisting with departmental meetings

Other admin tasks:

• Handling prize deadlines and submissions for the department
• Organising couriers
• Ordering in copies of books as needed
• Printing/scanning/photocopying/binding manuscripts
• Assisting with arrangements for events
  
  

Knowledge, skills and experience

We are looking for someone organised, confident and eager to learn, with:

• excellent communication and time-management skills
• impeccable spelling, grammar and punctuation
• office experience
• excellent organisational skills
• attention to detail
• a demonstrable interest in trade fiction and non-fiction, and an awareness of the book market

Some relevant experience would be an advantage

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 two days office-based/three days home-based (or fully office-based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

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 two years.

Please apply with your CV (Word or PDF format only) and by completing the application questions, via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button before 23:59, 19th March 2026.

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Bloomsbury reserves the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

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

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: two days office-based/three days home-based (or fully office-based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days’ holiday
• 3.5 days’ Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

• 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

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

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

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

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.