PR Assistant, Barrington Stoke (9 month FTC)

City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradPart time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Support PR leadership in launching title campaigns, backlist promotions, and author-facing outreach while coordinating events, travel, and tracking publicity in children’s publishing.

  • Own author-care and campaign coordination across title launches
  • Organise press mailings, events logistics, and travel planning
  • Maintain publicity trackers and stay attuned to the children’s publishing market

Job Description

Support PR leadership in launching title campaigns, backlist promotions, and author-facing outreach while coordinating events, travel, and tracking publicity in children’s publishing.

  • 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)
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HarperCollins Publishers UK

A history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. Here at HarperCollins UK, we publish around 1,500 books a year for readers of all ages and interests.Our bestsellers include Bernard Cornwell, Adele Parks, Jonathan Franzen, David Walliams, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Memoirs of British prime ministers. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. And legendary titles by legacy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis.We’re home to the most iconic bears, Paddington, Rupert and Winnie-the-Pooh, and Judith Kerr, Rob Biddulph and Michael Morpurgo, Mr Men & Little Miss, Thomas & Friends and Minecraft for our younger readers.As the only UK publisher to release audio versions of all our new fiction, narrative non-fiction and children’s books at the same time as their print publication, we publish 700 audio books every year. In a unique partnership with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, our complete catalogue is free for their members.Collins Learning, our education division is a pioneer in reference publishing. We develop market-leading dictionaries, atlases and bibles. And our state-of-the-art online learning platforms supplement our award-winning books for primary and secondary school students.Brothers James and John Harper founded J. and J. Harper in 1817. By 1825, their small printing shop had become the biggest publisher in New York City. As Harper & Row in 1987, it was acquired by News Corporation. In 1990, we became HarperCollins after acquiring William Collins & Sons, founded in Glasgow in 1819.We have offices in London, Honley, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin. In London, we’re in The News Building with News UK companies. Keeping our historic connection to Glasgow, we’re also based in the Robroyston district where each week, our distribution centre sends 3 million books around the world.

London, England, GBR
325 employees (184 in marketing)

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
361.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.8%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
7.9%
Social
2.7%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~325

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
172 (53% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5