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Closing date for applications: 5 October 2025Salary: £27,000 in London; £24,840 in Sheffield (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and home working (2 days) per week Are you a fiction lover looking to take your first steps in publishing? Join a collaborative team where your organisational skills will help shape standout stories.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.&nbsp;Orion is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds. As the publishing home of Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Santa Montefiore, Joanne Harris, Lorraine Kelly, Chris Whitaker, MJ Arlidge, Jessa Hastings, Samuel Burr and Kirsty Capes, Orion Fiction is a commercial fiction powerhouse. We are an imprint that celebrates its history of brand publishing and uses our award-winning expertise to build new blockbuster brands for future generations. We pride ourselves on putting the reader at the heart of everything we do. What you'll be doingReporting to the editorial director, you will work across the list and facilitate the smooth running of the fiction department, working with colleagues in different departments across the division. Responsibilities will include:<ul><li>Proofreading, checking permissions </li><li>Reading and reporting on manuscripts/proposals </li><li>Working on advance sales materials, creating keywords, writing copy</li><li>Taking minutes at meetings, including editorial meetings </li><li>Writing cover briefs and completing title information sheets (TIs) (under supervision) </li><li>Generating costings </li><li>Collating proofs, checking copy edits </li><li>Ensuring accurate and timely database records </li><li>Drafting author and agent correspondence </li><li>Organising meetings and travel</li><li>Liaising with internal/external contacts to ensure adherence to critical path</li><li>Researching sales and statistics, looking for new opportunities </li><li>Being the first point of contact for queries </li><li>Creating, sending and tracking author and freelance contracts where appropriate </li><li>Managing purchase orders and payments </li><li>Maintaining file libraries </li><li>Processing reversions and remainders </li><li>Sending out advance copies</li></ul> Who we are looking forThis role is ideally suited to a highly organised and detail-oriented person with a love for commercial fiction across genres. Strong communication and time-management skills are vital, as well as the ability to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks efficiently. We're looking for a voracious reader with some awareness of trends within the current commercial fiction landscape, as well as genuine enthusiasm for the Orion Fiction list. Previous publishing experience is not required. What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>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)</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe 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&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> 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.

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Editorial assistant (12 month FTC)

Closing date for applications:&nbsp; 6 October 2025Salary:&nbsp; £25,200 - £30,200 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.Location: Salford, GBR, M50 2QHContract type: Fixed-term contract/attachment, full-time (12 months)&nbsp;Department: BBC Audio North (Dock House, MediaCityUK, Salford - this is on office-based role)Job band: BInterviews: Held on Teams on Friday 17th October 2025 Are you organised, enthusiastic, and passionate about radio and podcasts? Join a creative audio production team and play a key role in keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes.BBC Audio North is the single biggest supplier of BBC radio programmes and podcasts made outside of London. We love audio and make lots of it – a rich mix of content spanning multiple genres including consumer, investigations, documentaries, religion and arts for national BBC Radio, the World Service and Sounds.BBC Audio is looking for a dynamic and engaged production management assistant (PMA) to support the production management community - covering a variety of tasks: including responsibility for the smooth running of production offices and being a key point of contact for the head of audio north, production managers and support to the production coordinators.&nbsp; Responsibilities<ul><li>You will manage studio, workshop, and meeting room bookings, along with IT and phone assets, laptop and locker allocation, car parking, staff rotas, annual leave requests, sickness absence logging, and general database and IT support</li><li>Organise ID passes, greet visitors to the department, and coordinate hospitality for large meetings and events</li><li>Assist production coordinators with travel and accommodation bookings, event accreditation, visa requests, and production paperwork including music reporting in Proteus (or similar)</li><li>Liaise with facilities management, order office supplies, allocate production equipment, and act as the first point of contact for team queries</li><li>Maintain accurate records and reporting using BBC systems such as Proteus (or similar), ensuring compliance with internal processes and standards</li><li>Support and implement practical actions to reduce environmental impact throughout production activities</li></ul> Knowledge, skills &amp; experience<ul><li>Enthusiasm for radio and podcasts - a genuine interest in audio content, with a proactive attitude and a passion for supporting creative teams</li><li>Demonstrable experience of dealing with a wide range of administrative skills such as managing facilities bookings and accreditation, with the ability to prioritise effectively</li><li>Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a team in a professional broadcast/production environment, as well as the ability to work independently</li><li>Well-developed written and verbal communication abilities, with confidence to liaise with a wide range of stakeholders across teams and departments</li><li>Experience using Microsoft Office 365, or a proven ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, with a solid working knowledge of Excel (this will be assessed as part of the interview process)</li></ul> This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis. We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please get in contact. The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place. If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent | Careers at the BBC

Production management assistant, BBC Audio North - EXTEND

Closing date for applications: 5 October 2025Salary: £33,500 - £36,500 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London, Sheffield, or Edinburgh office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week Help bring bold ideas to life and make your mark in illustrated publishing, managing beautiful books from concept to completion.Laurence King is one of the world’s leading publishers of books, gifts and games on the creative arts and popular culture. We work with some of the world’s best illustrators, designers, artists and photographers to create beautifully produced products that are acclaimed for their inventiveness, beautiful design and authoritative texts. Our dynamic and friendly books team produces a wide range of illustrated titles on art, design, nature and lifestyle. We are passionate about the creative arts and love illustration, photography and design. What you'll be doingThis is a chance to join the team making some of the most beautifully packaged, creative and innovative illustrated books on the market. You will be managing book projects from initial concept stage to finished product, bringing passion and attention to detail to each title and ensuring that they are delivered on time and on budget. You’ll need to work independently to project manage around 12 titles per year. This role will involve managing freelance picture researchers, copy-editors and proofreaders; making corrections in InDesign; checking proofs and plotters; managing budgets; working with authors to ensure a consistent vision between concept and finished book; reviewing manuscripts; working with in-house graphic designers and other stakeholders; preparing illustration briefs; checking artworks; organising and attending photo shoots; championing your books with internal and external stakeholders. You will also be required to update internal systems and create sales materials, writing copy and creating metadata where necessary. It is a flexible role with a strong project management focus, as well as wide scope for creativity in shaping books through their development. Who we are looking forAs a leading creative arts and lifestyle publisher, we are looking for someone with a strong visual sensibility, lots of creativity and solid experience of illustrated publishing to project manage a varied publishing programme. Key attributes:<ul><li>Meticulous copy-editing and proofreading skills</li><li>Proven editorial experience in illustrated publishing</li><li>Excellent organizational and project management abilities</li><li>Experience of working in Adobe InDesign</li><li>Strong communicator</li><li>Highly visual and passionate about illustrated publishing</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>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)</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe 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&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> 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.

Illustrated project editor (12 month FTC)

Closing date for applications: 5 October 2025Salary: £50,000+ dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. Use your negotiation skills to shape the deals behind bestselling books while leading the contracts teams of two dynamic publishing divisions.Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. We're made up of 11 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.Hachette Children's Group is of the UK's largest children's publishers. Our mission is to make it easy for children and young people everywhere to access books and see themselves reflected. We aim to maximise our readers' life chances by inspiring a lifelong love of reading, publishing books for every stage of their journey to adulthood from Enid Blyton to Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Octopus publishes books for everyone. We love to enlighten, nourish, entertain and most of all inspire readers and listeners everywhere. Octopus is a leader in illustrated publishing, across all categories but especially in food &amp; drink. We have a truly international business, selling directly into every territory in both English language and Foreign co-editions.The contracts &amp; business affairs department powers the creative success of Hachette UK’s publishing divisions through technical expertise and sound commercial partnership. We engage with authors, editors, agents, and marketing teams at all stages of a book’s lifecycle, from pre-acquisition through to production, promotion, publication and beyond. The department comprises a team of 21 who handle approximately 3,500 contractual paperwork requests per annum, which include a wide variety of contracts. We are looking for a senior manager, contracts &amp; business affairs, to lead the Hachette Children's Group (HCG) and Octopus Publishing Group (OPG) contracts teams as a parental leave cover.&nbsp; What you'll be doingPart of the HUK contracts senior team and reporting to the director for contracts &amp; business affairs, the successful candidate will work closely with the HCG and OPG publishing teams as well as with colleagues in the contracts &amp; business affairs department to:<ul><li>Ensure contracts are drafted and negotiated to high standards working within company policy and KPIs</li><li>Advise editorial and publishing teams on contractual elements of acquisitions</li><li>Draft and review contracts including brand licensing agreements, and negotiate amendments as needed</li><li>Draft, check and amend other contractual paperwork, including addenda, novations, reversions and cancellations</li><li>Handle internal and external contract queries</li><li>Take part in IP creation projects in an advisory role</li><li>Line manage line report(s) and train and develop members of the teams as appropriate</li><li>Build and maintain successful working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the contracts &amp; business affairs department, HCG, OPG and other relevant HUK teams</li><li>Use initiative, within the parameters of company and group policies, to find creative solutions to unusual problems arising from complex negotiations</li><li>Deliver training to editors and others at HCG and OPG on contracts &amp; business affairs department processes and guidelines</li><li>Lead the HCG and OPG contracts teams and be the team's first point of contact with the Orion leadership team</li></ul> Who we are looking for<ul><li>Proven experience in contracts (or business affairs/legal) in the publishing, media or entertainment sectors</li><li>Advanced drafting skills</li><li>Ability to conduct effective negotiations</li><li>Ability to lead a team that thrives</li><li>Thorough understanding of copyright and contract law, relevant knowledge of other intellectual property law e.g. trademarks</li><li>Knowledge of, or aptitude for, relevant applications/systems</li><li>Commercial awareness and financial literacy</li><li>Ability to communicate and build positive working relationships with contacts at all levels</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>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)</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and Religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe 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&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> 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.

Senior contracts manager (13 month FTC cover)

Closing date for applications: 30 September 2025Salary: £30,000 per annumContract: 12-month fixed term contract Step into a leadership role at the heart of a diverse visitor team. Shape unforgettable visitor experiences while managing the events, activities and daily operations of an exciting cultural venue.The venue duty manager is a key role with our visitor team – it provides day-to-day duty management of the venue, events, and activities, contributes to creating an outstanding and inclusive visitor experience at Aviva Studios, and leads a diverse team on the ground that includes supervisors, hosts and volunteers. You’ll coordinate with a range of other teams including our food and drink, security and cleaning partners – as well as internal teams like ticketing, event management and producing. The duty management team are the operational leads in the venue – you’ll be proactive in ensuring visitor safety, responding to incidents and escalating issues as needed. Working across a rota – you’ll cover both building duty management shifts, as well as shifts managing the visitor-facing aspects of specific events and functions.In a venue like Aviva Studios, no two events are the same, so our duty manager team also plays a role in planning for flexible and adaptable visitor experience. Behind the scenes you’ll also contribute to our management, rota-ing and communications with our host team. Responsibilities<ul><li>Fulfil the role of duty manager in the operational structure of Aviva Studios, working with supervisors, and other teams in the day-to-day delivery of outstanding and inclusive customer service to all visitors</li><li>Play a leading delivery and decision-making role in the day-to-day operation of Aviva Studios, this may include leading evacuations, completing risk assessments, managing crowd-flow, responding to first aid incidents, monitoring and maintaining the safety of visitors, colleagues and artworks, as well as incident response and management</li><li>Oversee complex visitor operations – often including multiple events of scale taking place simultaneously</li><li>Manage the visitor-facing teams at Aviva Studios. Depending on the day and type of event this may include directly briefing and managing hosts and volunteers, or leading a team who in turn manage hosts and volunteers</li><li>Oversight and on the day management of key visitor-facing functions such as: retail, reception, security, cloakroom, ticket scanning, etc</li><li>Work with producers and event managers to scope and plan operational needs for commercial and creative programming and events</li><li>Work with the wider duty management team to embed a positive and proactive team culture</li><li>Play a key role in developing, training and equipping supervisors, hosts and volunteers to contribute to the visitor experience offer at Aviva Studios</li><li>Contribute to our management, rotas and communications with our host team</li><li>Champion Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, ensuring Aviva Studios provides a consistent experience to all visitors</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Ability to motivate and lead teams of people in the delivery of outstanding experiences/services</li><li>Effective communication skills with the ability to communicate with a broad range of people from different backgrounds</li><li>Demonstrable experience of taking a collaborative approach to their work</li><li>Ability to remain calm under pressure, always retaining an open and approachable manner</li><li>Familiarity with Health &amp; Safety legislation and practical implementation of policies and procedures</li><li>First Aid Qualification or willingness to undertake a First Aid Qualification</li><li>Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively</li><li>Commitment to championing representation and inclusion at every level of the organisation with a proven ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds</li><li>Willing to undertake relevant statutory checks e.g. DBS (Factory International can support with processing and payment)</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Previous experience of working within an arts/cultural venue or a customer focused organisation</li><li>Understanding/knowledge of access needs and previous experience of working with access customers</li><li>Previous experience of leading teams of people</li><li>Good IT skills, including proficiency with Microsoft office programs and the ability to pick up systems quickly</li><li>Enthusiasm for training, mentoring and support of emerging talent</li></ul> Factory International is committed to equality for everyone and we encourage you to apply no matter what your age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We are particularly committed to supporting applications from individuals with backgrounds or social groups that are currently underrepresented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Factory International

Venue duty manager

Closing date for applications: 6 October 2025Salary: £36,000 - £38,000 per annum (dependent on experience)Contract: 18-month fixed term contract Do you have experience of project management or producing and love art and culture? Work closely with diverse artists and communities to deliver ambitious and innovative projects.The producing department delivers work across all our programmes at Factory International (FI) – both the year-round programme at Aviva Studios and Manchester International Festival (MIF) that takes place every two years at various venues in Greater Manchester. We are a department of producers, event managers, producing administrators, as well as the artist liaison and scheduling teams. We come from a wide range of backgrounds and we think we get to produce some of the most exciting projects made today – working actively with artists and communities across Greater Manchester on ambitious and ground-breaking new work.The producer is a central role in the team and the organisation, acting as the lead line producer for commissions and events for MIF/Factory International from their initial development through to their realisation and presentation to the public. You could be delivering a flagship project in and around Aviva Studios, in the digital realm, across the city, or internationally.If you have experience of project management or producing, if you love art and culture and if you like the kind of work we have produced, then we want to hear from you! You will be supported by an experienced executive producer to deliver the work and we are committed to putting training plans in place to support people to work in art forms that may be new to them. Responsibilities<ul><li>Leading and line producing a number of assigned projects of scale. Responsibility for working closely with artists/creative teams from diverse backgrounds to develop projects from end to end. Recruiting artistic collaborators, undertaking research and development (R&amp;D) of ideas and drawing up schedules, managing logistics in order to deliver projects to the highest possible standards</li><li>Working with the artistic director, creative director, and executive producers to develop and nurture creative relationships with key artists, partners and other organisations to build solid working practices</li><li>Preparing and managing project budgets in consultation with the executive producer using our budget systems and templates. This will include the timely and accurate coding and authorising of purchase requests and invoices, budget forecasting, running and reconciliation, as well as regular updating of budget projections and cashflows, together with the provision of other financial information as required</li><li>Negotiating artist and project team fees and contracts within FI’s contracting system and templates, including commission contracts and underlying rights agreements</li><li>Working closely with external contractors and internal colleagues across technical, artist liaison, audiences, digital and finance to provide them with requisite detailed project information so that they can blend their work into each project</li><li>Working closely with the audiences, visitor experience, ticketing and scheduling teams to coordinate the ticketing set up, announcement, communications strategies and sales targets for projects</li><li>Chairing internal and external meetings for projects as required</li><li>Working closely with the International team to manage co-commission and co-production relationships, providing touring information, feeding into the contractual process and hosting partners as required</li><li>Working with the executive producer to create working models for partner relationships and contracting across a number of organisations</li><li>Working with the producing administrators to ensure that information is shared on event management systems (including Artifax) and ensuring that information is continuously kept up to date on these systems</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Experience of managing multiple projects with a flexible approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities</li><li>Budget management experience and financial literacy</li><li>Strong negotiation skills and experience of negotiating and drafting contracts</li><li>Experience working with a diverse range of communities and/or artists</li><li>Ability to engage with and use IT systems appropriate to the organisation</li><li>The ability to both work on own initiative and to lead a project team with a solution focused attitude</li><li>Excitement and enthusiasm in supporting artists to develop their work from the early stages of an idea through to delivery of the production</li><li>Commitment to championing representation and inclusion at every level of the organisation with a proven ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Experience of producing visual arts projects and exhibitions</li><li>Experience of producing digital arts projects</li><li>Experience of working in a wide range of venues/sites</li><li>Enthusiasm for training, mentoring and support of emerging talent</li></ul> Factory International is committed to equality for everyone and we encourage you to apply no matter what your age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We are particularly committed to supporting applications from individuals with backgrounds or social groups that are currently underrepresented in the creative industriesPlease state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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