Publicity Assistant, Penguin Michael Joseph

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Penguin Michael Joseph is seeking a Publicity Assistant to join our busy publicity team in the UK. The role is full-time with compensation up to £29,000 per year, plus bonus and benefits.

You will provide administrative support, assist with book launches, manage press communications and coordinate travel for events. We value a proactive, organised team player who can multitask and communicate effectively with authors, journalists and internal colleagues.

Qualifications

• Strong personal organisation and time management with excellent attention to detail.
• Proactive and reactive, with the ability to multitask and handle competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to a wide range of people via email, phone and in person.

Responsibilities

• Providing general administrative support to the Publicity team to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
• Keeping on top of department processes, 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, regularly communicating with journalists and managing author enquiries.
• Providing support to publicists with their book launches, including 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.

Skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Communication skills

Initiative

Team player

Independence

Self-starter

Creativity

Job description

Publicity Assistant, Penguin Michael Joseph

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

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 Publicity Assistant to join our team at Penguin Michael Joseph.

About Penguin Michael Joseph

You will work as part of a collaborative and supportive team, curious and open to new and innovative ideas. Penguin Michael Joseph publishes some of the world’s most popular authors to commercial and bestselling success across both fiction and non-fiction and across a wide range of genres including crime and thriller, women’s fiction, book club, fantasy and romance. This role offers the opportunity to work across a range of authors. Our fiction authors include: Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty, Claire Douglas, SenLinYu, Carley Fortune, Holly Jackson and Alex Michaelides. Our non-fiction authors include Jamie Oliver, Stephen Fry, Dr Julie Smith and Judi Dench.

The role

Key responsibilities:

• Providing general administrative support to the Publicity team to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
• Keeping on top of department processes, 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, regularly communicating with journalists and managing author enquiries.
• Providing support to publicists with their book launches, including 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, with the ability to multitask and handle competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate effectively to a wide range of people on email, phone and in person.
• Solutions focused and positive mindset with great initiative.
• Flexible and helpful, a strong team player.
• Able to work independently, and with the determination to achieve your objectives.
• A self-starter, with the resilience to keep things moving when challenges arise.
• The ability to think creatively and try new ways of working.

AI

Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity. When you apply for a position, we want to encourage you to showcase your unique voice. Throughout our recruitment process, please share your own thoughts, experiences, and skills. This helps us get a true sense of who you are and what you might bring to our team.
We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself! While we recognise AI tools can be helpful, we recommend using them thoughtfully to ensure your responses reflect you.

Disability Confident

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. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. 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 [e-mail]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, for us to support your request.

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£29,000 plus bonus and benefits.