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Closing date: Sunday 28th April at 11.59pmSalary: £32,000 - £36,000 If you have community engagement experience and are looking for a new challenge, this could be the role for you! Do you have experience in engaging communities in the world of children’s media? Do you have a passion for the role brands can play in the lives of families? Do you believe in the power of community to drive brand affinity?We have an exciting opportunity for a Puffin Community Manager to join the Penguin Random House Children’s Marketing team. Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we strive for our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated. We want to work with a wide range of talent as we find new ways to tell our stories. That is where you come in. You don’t have to come from a publishing background or have a degree to be considered - we want to hear from different voices and see fresh perspectives. Puffin is one of the strongest global brands in the publishing world, creating stories that spark imaginations. Publishing stories for children aged 0-12, Puffin is home to famous authors, illustrators, and children’s brands, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Tom Fletcher and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Stories for every child, everywhere.  Key areas of responsibility include: <ul><li>Building engaged audiences through strong community management </li><li>Identify and engage with influencers and micro influencers, building and driving relationships with like-minded individuals  </li><li>Maximising opportunities created by the wider Brand, PR and Marketing team to generate and repurpose engaging content for our social channels </li><li>Gauging consumers’ views of Puffin and plotting this sentiment over time, utilising reporting tools and feeding back to the rest of the Brand, Marketing, and PR team </li><li>Social Customer Service: responding to consumer queries in a manner in line with the Puffin brand tone of voice and characteristics </li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Proven audience-engagement experience through community management, or equivalent. </li><li>Excellent communication and relationship building skills. </li><li>Experience of managing multiple stakeholders and communicating strategies.  </li><li>Effective time and project management skills, including working across multiple projects </li><li>An effective decision maker with a proactive approach and ability to lead by example.  </li><li>A strong understanding of how to engage family audiences. </li><li>Broad market awareness within children’s media, brand and within marketing. </li></ul> To applyPlease submit your CV and a Cover Letter telling us why you are the right person for the role by midnight on Sunday 28th April.  First round interviews will take place week beginning 6th May, with an interview task.   We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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Puffin community manager, Penguin Random House Children's

Application deadline: 5pm on Monday April 29th, 2024 Salary: London Living Wage and competitive benefits package (financial support for those travelling from afar available upon request) Location: Hybrid working between home and our London offices (roughly 2 days per week, to be discussed with the hiring manager)   Have you got plans for the summer? Make your mark by spending 8 weeks from July 1st – August 30th working at one of the largest publishers in the world. You’ll work on a paid independent project made especially for the internship programme - making decisions for yourself and contributing to our shared mission. With us you’ll find stability and support. Whatever project you’re placed on, you'll gain universally applicable skills that will equip you for wherever you go next. We’ll teach you about publishing and Penguin, just start here.  Read about the 2024 projects on our <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/your-career/internships/" target="_blank">careers site</a>.  Eligibility criteria Our books create belonging, embrace difference, and champion different perspectives. To achieve our mission to make books for everyone because a book can change anyone, we are seeking out new voices. If you identify as coming from a lower socio-economic background, this internship is for you. You’ll either have been eligible for free school meals, or at age 14 your highest-earning parent/guardian was not self-employed or in senior management, and was employed in one of the following categories: <ul><li>Technical and craft occupations such as: motor mechanic, fitter, inspector, plumber, printer, tool maker, electrician, gardener, train driver </li><li>Semi-routine manual and service occupations such as: postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, receptionist, sales assistant </li><li>Routine manual and service occupations such as: HGV driver, van driver, cleaner, porter, packer, sewing machinist, messenger, labourer, waiter/waitress, bar staff </li><li>Unemployed but seeking work </li></ul>We recognise these are broad categories that generalise from the many hundreds of jobs out there, and they may not exactly fit your family situation. Please use your judgement when self-identifying. It’s not a requirement to have completed any formal work experience in or outside of the publishing industry or have a degree qualification.   Our application process We’re using the inclusive hiring platform Applied to ask three questions about the universal skills we call ‘qualities’. You’ll answer three questions on the platform.  If you’re successful you’ll submit a HireVue video to help us understand your project preferences and attend our online learning and selection day in May.  If you’re one of the shortlisted candidates, you’ll attend a Learning &amp; Selection Day with one interview on 22nd May and one group task on the 23rd May with your matched project team. You’ll be assessed on the rest of the qualities, get to know some of your potential colleagues, and come away with some helpful resources for the future. The successful candidates will start the onboarding process, ready for the 1st of July! We will provide reasonable adjustments to those with a disability at all stages of the recruitment process and encourage any requests that will make the process more comfortable for you.  For further information and the application link, please click the Apply button at the top right of the page.Please include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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Closing date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024 at 11.59pmSalary: £27,500 Are you driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world – from history and politics to science and culture – constantly seeking out the latest ideas, debates and innovations? Are you fascinated to know more about the latest in non-fiction publishing? Are you fastidiously organised, a great team-player and meticulously attentive to detail?Penguin General/Viking is looking for an Editorial Assistant to work on our non-fiction publishing, for 12 months. The successful candidate will report to Viking Non-Fiction’s Editorial Director and provide support to this editor and two others.Penguin General is one of the eight publishing divisions that make up Penguin Random House UK. There are six imprints at Penguin General, of which Viking is the largest.At Viking we love publishing books that combine brilliant writing with popular appeal, that hit the bestseller lists, win prizes and shed light on the world around us. In non-fiction, our authors range from world leaders to sporting legends, from cutting-edge scientists to prize-winning historians, and from distinguished journalists to eminent philosophers. Authors you’ll be working with closely include Diane Abbott, Will Buxton, Charlotte Fox Weber, Adam Higginbotham, Simon Jenkins, Erling Kagge, Jonathan Liew, Sinclair McKay, Mark Miodownik, John Preston, Vaclav Smil, Paris Spies-Gans, Devi Sridhar and Leor Zmigrod.Penguin General is made up of extremely talented colleagues, who set a high bar in terms of quality of output, and who take pride in their work and strive for both individual and collective success. We advocate a ‘learning mindset’ by which we mean being curious and humble.We strive to create a working culture that is progressive, energizing and fun, where colleagues are treated with respect, stretched to learn and grow, and can turn up to work as their authentic professional selves. ResponsibilitiesThe role will involve a wide array of editorial and administrative tasks, including:<ul><li>Providing general office administration e.g. booking meeting rooms, arranging couriers, minuting meetings, processing expenses, processing invoices, sending out proof mailings, arranging for author advanced copies</li><li>Managing book and prize submissions</li><li>Maintaining internal systems</li><li>Proofreading book covers</li><li>Preparing editorial material for the sales, communications and rights teams</li><li>Researching book ideas</li><li>Offering feedback on book proposals and manuscripts</li></ul> What you’ll bringThe role will be particularly suitable to someone who:<ul><li>Has an insatiable curiosity for new ideas, wherever they come from, and ideally is a voracious non-fiction reader.</li><li>Is a team player, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a knack for working closely with a diverse team (whether colleagues, authors or freelancers).</li><li>Is highly efficient, organised and proactive, with the ability to prioritise a demanding workload.</li><li>Has a meticulous eye for detail and for spotting (and solving) problems before they arise.</li></ul>You don’t need previous publishing experience. You do need an interest in books, a willingness and ability to learn, and passion for our mission – to make books for everyone, because a book can change anyone. How to apply If this sounds like you, please apply with a CV and cover letter (800 words at most) by 11:59pm on Tuesday 23rd April. As part of your cover letter, tell us about:<ul><li>Why you think you would be a superb Editorial Assistant at Viking Non-Fiction, focusing on how you have displayed the above attributes (no more than 500 words).</li><li>A recently published non-fiction book you would recommend and why (no more than 300 words).</li></ul>We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Editorial assistant, Viking Non-Fiction (12-month fixed term contract)

Closing date: Sunday 28th April at 11.59pmSalary: Up to £35,000 Do you have a passion for non-fiction? Can you create impactful, sales-driving publicity campaigns that capture people’s attention and interest? We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Publicity Manager to join the Transworld publicity team, focusing primarily on our non-fiction titles but also working across some of our fiction titles too. Transworld is one of PRH’s ten publishing houses, with three distinctive imprints: Bantam, Doubleday and Torva. Our non-fiction publishing spans general non-fiction, history, sport, science, self-development, business, celebrity, politics, smart-thinking and nature-writing, and includes authors like James Holland, Jason Fox, Guenther Steiner, Dawn Butler MP, Hallie Rubenhold and Chris Broad. On the fiction side, we publish in the literary, commercial, crime and thriller, romance, book club and SFF spaces, and our numerous authors include Lee Child, Frank Gardner, Shari Lapena, Jo Thomas and John Boyne. Reporting into the Head of Publicity – Non-Fiction, and joining a team of 9, this is an opportunity to create publicity campaigns for a mixture of established and new authors. It might suit a publicity manager with one to two years’ experience or an experienced press officer looking to make their next career move. In return for your hard work, you’ll get to work with some of the most creative publishing colleagues in the business, in a friendly and inclusive environment that values individuality, champions creativity, and celebrates individual and team successes. You’ll be involved throughout every stage of the publishing process, from acquisition to cover design, devising and executing campaign plans, brand strategy meetings, author events and much more.   Knowledge, skills and experienceYou’ll have a proven track record of independently producing standout publicity campaigns either in trade publishing or a related creative field. You’ll also: <ul><li>Have established media contacts and be knowledgeable on all forms of media including broadcast, print and online </li><li>Be highly organised with excellent time management to juggle concurrent campaigns </li><li>Have great communication skills to be able to pitch ideas, report back to authors and agents and produce materials both internally and externally </li><li>Demonstrate analytical ability and financial awareness for your campaigns </li><li>Think outside the box to find new and creative ways to build the buzz behind our books </li><li> </li><li>Importantly, you’ll also be passionate about books and want to tell everyone about the exciting titles and authors we publish.  </li></ul>  To applyIf this sounds like you, please apply with your CV and a covering letter by midnight on Sunday 28th April.  As part of your covering letter, we’d like you to tell us about a recent publicity campaign (this doesn’t have to be book related) that you were impressed by and why (within 200 words).  First interviews (which will be virtual) will take place shortly after the closing date.   As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing <a href="mailto:PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk" target="_blank">PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk</a>. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request. Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Publicity manager, Transworld

Closing date: Wednesday 24th April at 11.59pmSalary: £27,500, plus bonus and benefits Are you organised with meticulous attention to detail? Are you eager to join our fast moving and entrepreneurial International Sales team? We’re looking for an International Sales Assistant to provide administrative and sales support to the Regional Sales Director and the wider team looking after Asia.Penguin Random House has the strongest international presence of any trade publisher, with close to twenty offices all over the world, and with ambitious plans for growth in international markets. We work across the full range of PRH adult titles including the business, fiction, classics and smart thinking sectors alongside our award-winning children’s and educational lists. As an International Sales Assistant, you’ll play an important role in assisting with the smooth running of the International Sales team.  Responsibilities<ul><li>Dealing with day-to-day customer sales queries, including price and availability queries, book title information and order processing/management</li><li>Supporting the Sales Managers in a range of tasks including preparing sales material, delivering sales reports and managing monthly meetings</li><li>Working closely with the Sales team, our Operations team and with Customer Services to help deliver excellent sales, logistics and marketing support to our customers in order to grow sales</li><li>Scheduling and preparing sales manager trips and book fairs, including providing follow up material and information</li><li>Providing other relevant administrative support for customers and the team on an ad hoc basis.</li></ul> What you’ll bring<ul><li>As International Sales Assistant, you’ll have an interest in how we sell our books to international markets, bringing to the role excellent numeracy and administrative skills and the ability to pick up new systems quickly, as you’ll be working with systems which include Biblio, SAP and Excel</li><li>A sound knowledge of Microsoft Office is required</li><li>This is a varied and busy support role; no two days will be the same and you’ll need to be able to think quickly on your feet</li><li>The job includes liaising with customers and dealing promptly with their queries, so you’ll need to be flexible in your approach and have excellent written and interpersonal communication skills</li><li>You’ll be able to prioritise a busy workload effectively while still maintaining a keen eye for detail and delivering to deadlines</li><li>This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking for a step in their career which offers autonomy, independence, and responsibility.</li></ul>In your cover letter, please tell us why your skills are a great fit for this role.We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

International sales assistant

Closing date: Sunday 21st AprilSalary: £27,500, plus bonus and benefits Would you like to be part of the world’s biggest publisher, working to promote our brands and authors to customers and consumers across the world?We have an exciting opportunity to join the international communications team as an International Communications Assistant on a full-time, permanent basis.We are looking for a creative and proactive team player with excellent time management and organisation skills to join our team and work across Penguin Random House UK’s outstanding list of titles. Your work will help keep our small, but very busy, team running by providing administrative support to all members.You will be responsible for planning and delivering our online communications to retail customers and consumers worldwide, showcasing our very best new titles across PRH UK. You will manage and create many of the department’s key selling materials, including our regular International Highlights catalogues and presentations for important sales periods, like the London and Frankfurt book fairs. You will also be responsible for updating and maintaining the International Trade Portal, our bespoke business website where international retailers can find out more about our books, as well as managing both physical and digital early reading copies of our titles for our customers. What you’ll bring<ul><li>With a keen love of books, you will enjoy writing copy and thinking creatively. </li><li>You will be an excellent communicator with great attention to detail, and someone who thrives in a fast-moving, ever-changing environment.</li><li>You’ll have efficient time management skills and be able to juggle multiple priorities at once. </li><li>Previous experience in using Adobe design software is desirable, as well as an interest in book publishing and marketing around the world.</li></ul> How to applyPlease apply with your CV &amp; Cover Letter by 23:59 on Sunday 21st of April. In your cover letter, please tell us why you are interested in this role and what relevant skills you could bring to this role.Please note, interviews for this position will be held on Friday the 26th of April via MS Teams.As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

International communciation assistant

Closing date for applications: Monday 13th May at 11.59pmSalary: £3,361.50 (reflecting London Living Wage) Working hours: 9.30am - 5.30pm, Monday - FridayDuration: 6 weeksStart date: 16th September 2024 This entry-level springboard into publishing offers a hands-on introduction to the idea of rights and agenting, in partnership with some of the industry's leading publishers and literary agencies. The <a href="https://www.deborahrogersfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Deborah Rogers Foundation</a>'s David Miller internship programme offers an entry-level introduction to rights and agenting in publishing companies and literary agencies, aiming to give candidates a full understanding of the roles of rights professionals within the wider industry. This is achieved through first-hand experience and intensive training, providing participants with a significant stepping stone in their search for future employment. In 2023 the companies who provided placements and training include Aitken Alexander Associates, David Higham Associates, ILA, Penguin Random House, Faber, Profile Books, PEW Literary, Greyhound Literary and Eccles Fisher Associates. The two interns are given mentoring and guidance throughout their placements. At the end of the six weeks, they will have spent time with several publishing companies and agencies. The culmination of their experience is a joint presentation about the world of publishing rights and agenting.Accommodation will be provided if required. What you will learn <ul><li>The concepts underpinning intellectual property and copyright</li><li>How publishing licenses work</li><li>How authors and agents work together</li><li>The role of the publisher both domestically and in international markets</li><li>The ways in which translation rights are sold</li><li>The role of literary scouts</li><li>How publishers exploit the rights they have acquired</li><li>And insights into some translation publishing markets in a variety of countries. </li><li>The educational schedule includes a visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the key yearly rights event in October.</li></ul> Who we are looking for<ul><li>Someone with a keen interest in publishing, and in particular rights and agenting</li><li>This is a great opportunity to learn, so we are looking for someone who is inquisitive with a love of books</li><li>You don’t need to have previous publishing experience to be considered for this opportunity</li><li>Good communication and collaboration skills</li><li>Strong written communication and literacy skills</li><li>Highly organised and good at managing your time</li><li>Strong attention to detail</li></ul> To apply<ul><li>Log in to your Creative Access account or register today to apply for this opportunity</li><li>Upload your CV and cover letter as one document (applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted)</li><li>Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully</li><li>Do not contact the company directly</li><li>Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: <a href="mailto:recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk" target="_blank">recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk</a></li></ul> This opportunity is only open to individuals from a group that is under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates, disabled people, those undergoing gender reassignment / transitioning and individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more.

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