PR Assistant, Barrington Stoke (9 month FTC) at HarperCollins Publishers | City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

HarperCollins Publishers

PR Assistant, Barrington Stoke (9 month FTC)

City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own publicity operations for a children’s books program, coordinating campaigns, events, travel, and submissions to drive coverage and author visibility.

Support title campaigns, backlist promotions, and author care to secure coverage.
Organize press mailings, events logistics, travel and award submissions to ensure timely storytelling.
Track publicity activity and monitor children's publishing trends to inform strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Support the PR Manager with all new title campaigns, backlist promotion and author care
Organise Press Mailings
Support author and company events, coordinating logistics, sending materials and book stock (some weekend and evening work required)
Handle award submissions and associated tasks
Organising author travel
Assist with key publicity tracking documents
Stay in tune with children’s publishing to maintain awareness of the market

Requirements

A motivated and proactive self-starter with a can do attitude and the ability to remain calm under pressure
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Collaborative team player
Attention to details and excellent organisational skills
Have a genuine passion for children’s books and Barrington Stoke’s mission to offer high quality accessible stories to reluctant and struggling young readers

Benefits

Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)
27 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days)
Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Private healthcare cover and life assurance
Summer Hours
Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal
Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme
Relocation Rent Support Loan
Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work

HarperCollins Publishers

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HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp. The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.

New York, New York, USA

4.3K employees (2,542 in marketing)

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