Marketing & Publicity Assistant, Special Interest, Non-Fiction

Marketing & Publicity Assistant (Special Interest Non-Fiction)

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic and meticulous Marketing and Publicity Assistant to join the creative and innovative Adult Marketing and Publicity team at Bloomsbury Publishing, working across the Special Interest non-fiction imprints. Imprints include: Continuum, Green Tree, Sport, Business, Wildlife, Nautical and Sigma. Our award-winning publishing lists include a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from current affairs to popular science, from religion to wellbeing, and from business to the outdoors, alongside with the world’s most famous sports book, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Our acclaimed list of authors includes: Maisie Hill, Martin Dorey, Jimi Famurewa, Ben Goldsmith and Alex Dowsett.

The role

• Provide support to the marketing and publicity teams across their campaigns including assisting with and organising events and accompanying authors to events and interviews
• Ownership of some marketing and publicity campaigns and involvement in development of special interest strategy and outreach
• Creation of social media campaigns and assets
• Management of administrative tasks
• Responsibility for internal communication of publicity coverage and events schedule
• Administrative support on quarterly marketing launch & review meetings
• General publicity and marketing contact for public and media, via phone and email
• Responsibility for writing e-newsletters and updating areas of the website
• Assisting with set up and manning of stands at exhibitions
• Jointly managed by Senior Head of Publicity and Head of Marketing – Special Interest

Skills, knowledge, experience

• Excellent organizational, timekeeping and multi-tasking skills
• Great attention to detail
• Passion for reading
• Awareness of different areas of the media from newspapers and magazines to TV, radio and podcasts
• Keen interest in social media
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong relationship building skills, internally and externally

Additional information

The role is a full-time permanent position with a salary of £25,000 per annum

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Tuesday

As an Assistant role, this position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by Friday 7th April.

Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits:

Two paid Personal Wellness Days

Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 45 minutes earlier in the week

Season Ticket Loan

Sharesave Scheme

In-house Doctor

Eyecare Voucher Scheme

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom (BAME), Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers), 9 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see below

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org