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Closing date for applications: 18th July at 12 noon
Term: Full-time, 12-month fixed term contract
Start date: Monday 12 September
Salary: £30,000-£34,000 dependent on experience
 
As the Book Festival develops an exciting new chapter in its story, help take our corporate fundraising to a new level.
As our Sponsorship &amp; Partnerships Manager (Maternity Cover) you will be part of our creative and high-performing Development Team. You will be responsible for excellent management and stewardship of a portfolio of key major sponsors, and for the prospecting and acquisition of new organisations to approach. Quickly building strong relationships will be key. The role presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to make a significant impact on the work of the Book Festival.
 
Responsibilities
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<li>Manage a portfolio of book festival sponsor relationships and partnerships, with particular focus on high-value partnerships, maintaining a close, communicative and highly responsive relationship and aiming where possible to secure and grow their participation in future years</li>
<li>Support the Sponsorship &amp; Partnerships Officer to manage sponsor relationships on behalf of the Book Festival</li>
<li>Lead on negotiations with corporate partnerships in the portfolio</li>
<li>Creatively identify strategic sponsorship opportunities and new partnerships which are aligned with the values, ethos and ambitions of the book festival, and which also meet the sponsor's objectives</li>
<li>Write innovative, attractive, well-researched and appealing proposals and overview documents for prospective sponsors</li>
<li>Work closely with other teams - including the Programming, Marketing and Site and Productions teams - to ensure that sponsor requirements are met effectively</li>
<li>Line manage the sponsorship &amp; partnerships officer, including internal communications, staff development and appraisals</li>
<li>Coordinate and plan research into new sponsor prospects, and lead regular meetings with the Head of Development and Sponsorship &amp; Partnerships Officer to identify how best to progress new relationships</li>
<li>Alongside the Head of Development, devise, develop and implement a corporate fundraising strategy, maximising income from corporate partnerships and other related income streams</li>
<li>Meet annual income targets set in conjunction with the Head of Development</li>
<li>Oversee the delivery of benefits for all Book Festival sponsors, including those managed by the Head of Development and Sponsorship &amp; Partnerships Officer, including hospitality, tickets and branding</li>
<li>Manage the recruitment process for the temporary Festival position and device and manager the staff rota for the development team over the festival period</li>
<li>Organise and host cultivation events, which are fundamental in gaining new sponsors and securing returning sponsors</li>
<li>Utilise Book Festival databases and resources to their fullest potential to develop relationships and maximise income</li>
<li>Responsible for ensuring outstanding customer care and stewardship from initial contact through to the debrief meeting post-festival</li>
</ul>
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>A proven track record in corporate fundraising and sales, in particular negotiation skills</li>
<li>Excellent attention to detail</li>
<li>Outstanding written and verbal communication and presentation skills</li>
<li>An ability to form positive working relationships and build rapport quickly with sponsors and colleagues</li>
<li>Ability to motivate others and inspire commitment to the Book Festival </li>
<li>Excellent customer service skills</li>
<li>Strong computer literacy and administration skills, including experience in using a database</li>
<li>Ability to work flexibly, independently, cooperatively and as an effective team member</li>
<li>Good numeracy and planning skills, with the ability to prioritise a busy workload and work to deadlines</li>
<li>An understanding of the legal and VAT implications of sponsorship and an understanding of sponsorship contracts</li>
<li>An enthusiastic and conscientious personality with a flexible can-do attitude and a willingness to carry out physical duties during the festival</li>
<li>A commitment to embedding equality, diversity and inclusion across all aspects of development and delivery</li>
</ul>
 
We encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. If you have any specific access requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to meet your needs.
Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

Sponsorship & partnerships manager (maternity cover)

Closing date for applications: 5th July 2022
Salary: £24,000 based in London, £22,000 based outside of London (+bonus +benefits)
 
Are you keen to join a collaborative and supportive editorial team that will give you the opportunity to work across the full breadth of commercial fiction? 
Orion Fiction is a commercial fiction powerhouse and the publishing home of Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Joanne Harris, Libby Page, Veronica Henry, Cathy Bramley, Winnie Li, Sharon Bolton, Kitty Neale and Kirsty Capes. We are an imprint that celebrates its history of brand publishing and uses expertise to build new brands for future generations. We pride ourselves on putting the reader at the heart of everything we do.
 
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>A wide range of administrative tasks including general office administration</li>
<li>Organising meetings</li>
<li>Keeping minutes</li>
<li>Overseeing our publishing critical path</li>
<li>Organising copy-edits and proofreading</li>
<li>Updating Biblio</li>
<li>Processing invoices</li>
<li>Organising book proof mailouts</li>
<li>Supporting the busy Orion Fiction team with a variety of ad hoc tasks</li>
</ul>
 
Who we are looking for
<ul>
<li>You will be supremely well organised with a meticulous eye for detail, good writing skills and impeccable grammar and spelling</li>
<li>You will have the ability to multi-task, prioritise and stay calm under pressure</li>
<li>You will also be a good communicator, a team player, a passionate reader of commercial fiction and have a keen awareness of trends</li>
<li>You will be a confident user of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook</li>
</ul>
Please note, we're currently recruiting for this role in one of the following Hachette UK office locations; London, Sheffield, Newcastle, or Edinburgh.
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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.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Editorial assistant

Closing date for applications: 27th June at 11.59pm
Salary: £33,000 - £40,000, dependent on experience and location
 
Are you passionate about publishing LGBTQIA+ voices? Do you have enthusiasm, fresh ideas, and the drive to innovate?
JKP is an award-winning, global publisher committed to publishing products that celebrate diversity and encourage social change. In 2017, JKP became part of John Murray Press, a fast-growing division of Hachette UK and in 2022, JKP won the Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards. Our Gender Diversity and Sexuality list publishes some of the UK’s leading writers and activists from the LGBTQIA+ community, including Owl and Fox Fisher, Juno Roche, Charlie Craggs, Meg-John Barker, Rhyannon Styles, Jamie Windust, Sabah Choudrey and Ben Pechey.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers are looking to hire a talented and ambitious Assistant Editor or Commissioning Editor (depending on experience) for our market-leading Gender Diversity and Sexuality publishing.
You will be responsible for seeking out new talent, building relationships with authors and commissioning and developing commercially focussed books and resources. The role will involve working across a range of formats, including self-help, memoir, practical guides, children’s books, books for teens, graphic non-fiction as well as online resources.
 
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Proactively approach potential authors with original publishing ideas</li>
<li>Demonstrate your strong understanding of LGBTQIA+ issues and topics</li>
<li>Establish and maintain relationships with authors</li>
<li>Actively solicit, acquire, evaluate, and develop proposals and book concepts</li>
<li>Negotiate contracts with authors and agents</li>
<li>Champion books through the publishing process</li>
<li>Maintain an effective relationship with editorial, marketing, sales production, and other departments</li>
<li>Develop and maintain market awareness in order to identify publishing opportunities</li>
<li>Oversee the preparation of marketing, jacket, and catalogue copy; and review marketing and publicity materials</li>
</ul>
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
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You will be passionate about LGBTQIA+ rights and be able to demonstrate that you have your finger on the pulse of trends and understand what our readers want
</li>
<li>
You will also have strong connections to the LGBTQIA+ community and know who is going to be the next rising star or influencer
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The successful candidate will be brimming with ideas for original and exciting resources that will push our publishing in new directions and make a difference to people’s lives
</li>
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This is the perfect opportunity for someone in publishing looking to take the next step in their editorial career and if you are creative, insightful and a self-starter then we would love to hear from you
</li>
</ul>
 
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.
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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Commissioning editor

Salary: £24,000
Closing date for applications: 27th June at 11.59pm
 
This is a fantastic role for anyone in the early stages of their publishing career, providing you with an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience of publishing as an active member of our energetic, friendly acquisitions team.
Singing Dragon is an imprint of JKP, an award-winning, global publisher committed to publishing products that celebrate diversity and encourage social change. In 2017 JKP became part of John Murray Press, a fast-growing division of Hachette UK and in 2022, JKP won the Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards. Singing Dragon publishes market-leading professional resources in complementary and integrative medicine and bodywork and we strive to give a platform to our communities’ conversations around wellness. Our products range from print, e and audio books, to video, webinars and conferences, and we are constantly innovating in our publishing to create the right products for our specialist audiences.
Working primarily within our Singing Dragon and Handspring team, you will provide administrative support across a diverse range of titles on topics including bodywork, movement and yoga therapy. You’ll liaise closely with authors and editors on manuscripts and oversee all essential tasks, from contract to publication.
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
We’d love to hear from you if you:
<ul>
<li>Thrive in a team environment where you are encouraged to share ideas</li>
<li>Are comfortable managing your workload, balancing priorities and anticipating regular deadlines</li>
<li>Are a stickler for detail - ensuring our databases are kept up to date and accurate</li>
<li>Are a natural communicator - at ease building strong working relationships with colleagues and authors</li>
<li>Are a talented copywriter, able to write compelling marketing and sales copy to promote our books and resources</li>
<li>Love the challenge of finding solutions to problems</li>
<li>Have a curiosity for learning and an eagerness to try new things</li>
</ul>
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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.
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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Closing date for applications: 1st July at 11.59pm
Salary: £10 per hour
Duration: 31st July until 28th August (daily hours vary)
 
Love comedy and looking to experience the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the month of August? 
Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. As a leading promoter of live comedy, Avalon represents over 100 acts including Russell Howard, Rose Matafeo, Phil Wang, Ed Gamble, Flo and Joan, Lou Saunders and many more.
As part of our dedicated Edinburgh street-team, you will attend show previews in London, meet the acts and permanent Avalon team before hitting the festival to promote this year’s exciting new shows. This is a great opportunity to get noticed and considered for future roles within the company.
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>A keen interest in comedy &amp; entertainment </li>
<li>A confident and upbeat manner</li>
<li>Stamina, enthusiasm and determination</li>
<li>Hard working and a team player</li>
</ul>
 
To apply
To apply please email your CV with a brief covering letter to Clare via the apply button, explaining why you want this position and what you can bring to the role. 
 
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.

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