Communications Assistant, Publicity - Penguin General

Bertelsmann-Jobs; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 26 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Penguin General, part of Penguin Random House UK, is seeking a Communications Assistant for its Publicity team. The role is based in London with a mix of remote work and office presence, supporting book launches, press outreach and event planning.

The successful candidate will join a busy team, handling communications with journalists and authors, organising schedules and travel, and assisting with press materials in a fast-paced publishing environment.

Qualifications

• Strong personal organisation and time management with attention to detail.
• Proactive and reactive; able to multitask and manage priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication across email, phone and in person.
• Solutions minded, flexible, initiative taker and a strong team player.

Responsabilités

• Provide general administrative support to the Publicity team; organise meetings, take minutes, and handle press releases.
• Act as a point of contact for the press; communicate with journalists and authors.
• Support publicists with book launches, interviews, events, and travel arrangements.
• Some duties may require out-of-hours work to attend events and festivals.

Description du poste

Communications Assistant, Publicity - Penguin General

• Full-time
• LegalEntity: The Random House Group Limited
• Compensation: up to GBP 29,000 - yearly

Communications Assistant – Publicity (Penguin General)

Do you enjoy talking about the best new books with everyone you know? Are you organised, proactive and thrive in busy, fast paced environments? This could be the role for you. We are looking for a Communications Assistant to join our Publicity Team at Penguin General.

Penguin General is one of the eight publishing divisions that make up Penguin Random House UK. There are five adult imprints at Penguin General: Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Life, Viking and Sandycove. The latter is based in Dublin. Penguin General publish some of the very best storytellers and thinkers in the world, spanning literary fiction classics such as John le Carré and Bernardine Evaristo; non-fiction bestsellers including Ben Macintyre, Arundhati Roy and Michelle Obama; and chart-topping fiction writers such as Richard Osman, Emily Henry and Dolly Alderton.

The role

Key responsibilities:

• To provide general administrative support to thePublicityteam to facilitate the smooth running of the department. Organising meetings and taking minutes, producing and sending out press releases, coding invoices and processing expenses, sending out books
• Acting as a point of contact for the press, and regularly communicating with journalists and authors
• To provide support to publicists with theirbook launches- accompanying authors to interviews and events, organising schedules, travel and accommodation
• This role may involve out of hours work on weekends and evenings in order to attend events and festivals.

What you’ll bring

• Strong personal organisation and time management skills with excellent attention to detail
• Proactive and reactive - ability to multitask and handle competing priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of people on email, phone and in person
• Solutions focused
• Flexibility and helpfulness
• Taking initiative
• A strong team player
• The ability to work on your own – and to push yourself
• A positive mindset
• The ability to think creatively

Disability Confident

If you have opted into our disabilityconfidentscheme,the abovearethe essential criteria you must meet to be considered for our interview scheme. Please note, there may be occasions where the volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview.

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important.For this role we expect the successful candidate to work from our London-based office three days perweek andoffer the other two days to be worked remotely.

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