Publicity & Communications Assistant — Hybrid (London)

Penguin Random House Uk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

London office

Job summary

Penguin Random House UK is seeking a Communications Assistant to join the Publicity Team at Penguin General. The role involves providing administrative support, handling press briefings, organising meetings, and helping with book launches in a busy, dynamic environment.

Based in London with hybrid working, the successful candidate will spend three days in the London office and two days remote, engaging with journalists, authors and offsite events.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• To provide general administrative support to the Publicity team 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 their book 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.

Skills

Organization

Time management

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Verbal communication

Written communication

Proactive

Team player

Independent work

Creative thinking

Job description

Penguin Random House UK is seeking a Communications Assistant to join the Publicity Team at Penguin General. The role involves providing administrative support, handling press briefings, organising meetings, and helping with book launches in a busy, dynamic environment.

Based in London with hybrid working, the successful candidate will spend three days in the London office and two days remote, engaging with journalists, authors and offsite events.