Publicity executive

Closing date for applications: midnight on 29th April 2025

Salary: The starting salary for this role is £30,000

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, organised and creative individual to join our team as a Publicity Executive on a full-time basis.

This role is ideal for a Publicity Assistant or someone with experience in a publicity department eager to progress their career in a fast-growing company with many high profile and award-winning authors, illustrators and brands. 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.

This is a full-time position. This is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near to London Bridge. The successful candidate will have the right to live and work in the UK.

The Publicity Executive will work independently on their own campaigns alongside assisting the PR team in promoting Nosy Crow’s incredible list of authors and illustrators, titles and award-winning brands, ensuring excellent author care.

The Publicity Executive is managed by the Publicity Manager, and works closely with the Senior Publicity Executive and Senior Publicity Manager within a wider, dedicated, bright and vibrant Sales and Marketing Department.

We are a close team and we value the experience and creative input that we can each provide to help shape our books and campaigns to be the best they can be.

Key responsibilities

• To independently devise and deliver your own imaginative, tailored, wide-reaching and well-executed publicity campaigns.
• To act as a dedicated point of contact for your assigned authors and illustrators, delivering stand-out author care.
• Work with the Publicity team to organise and coordinate a Nosy Crow presence at festivals and librarian conferences as well as launches, book tours, school visits and bookshop signings. This entails occasional evening/weekend work.
• Developing and maintaining lasting relationships with contacts in all aspects of the media, and within the librarian, bookseller and influencer community.
• Providing general administration support where required, including drafting PR materials like press releases and pitch presentations, sending out regular mailings, and managing award submissions.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• A keen interest in children’s books and lots of enthusiasm! Previous experience working in children’s books is beneficial but not essential.
• Previous experience working in publicity, plus a range of press contacts and/or experience organising festivals, events, conferences and book tours is beneficial, but not essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a keen eye for detail and creative flair.
• Confidence in building and maintaining relationships with authors, illustrators and key contacts as well as an eagerness to collaborate with the wider Nosy Crow team.
• Strong organisation and time management skills, and the ability to constantly prioritise in a busy and sometimes pressurised environment.
• Basic design skills using InDesign and Photoshop desirable but not essential.

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

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

If you would like to apply for this role, please email your CV, accompanied by not more than 500 words outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting new opportunity to Rhianna. We really look forward to reading your application.

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.

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. Applications are treated with due confidentiality.

Nosy Crow is a member of the Living Wage foundation.

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