Editorial Assistant, Lifestyle and Tonic – Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

At Bloomsbury Lifestyle we’re in search of an Editorial Assistant to affix our crew. The profitable candidate will supply administrative help to the Lifestyle Publisher and the Editorial Director of Tonic, Bloomsbury’s wellbeing imprint, in addition to the remainder of the crew.

You might be engaged on a Lifestyle record which publishes bestselling manufacturers resembling Tom Kerridge and Dishoom, cookery expertise like Poppy Cooks and Georgina Hayden, and life-style and present titles that look wonderful and have vast enchantment. For the Tonic record you’ll help on a spread of titles throughout psychology, parenting, well being/vitamin and inspirational pondering, from authors resembling The ADHD Adults, Adam Lind and Toni Tone.

The function

This function will contain administrative and editorial help throughout the crew, diary and assembly administration, conserving on high of metadata and demanding path, in addition to inventive duties resembling writing copy, studying submissions and contributing concepts. You might want to have very robust organisational expertise together with a powerful eye for element and a capability to prioritise a various workload. You will even should be communicator and work nicely inside a crew.

• General Administrative help
• Meetings Admin
• Scheduling, Biblio, Metadata
• Proofreading and corrections
  

Knowledge, expertise and expertise 

• Great organizational expertise and time administration
• Ability to prioritize a posh workload
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Communication expertise and powerful writer care
• Strong eye for element and excessive requirements
• IT competency, notably with Word, Outlook, Excel and databases
• Proactive angle {and professional} method
• An curiosity and understanding of the life-style and wellbeing market

Additional info

The function is a full-time everlasting place

Salary Pay Point: £27,000 each year

Please notice: Interviews might be going down from 1st – 4th of August. 

The function relies at our London workplace 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working sample of two days workplace based mostly / 3 days residence based mostly (or absolutely workplace based mostly if most well-liked).  Allocated workplace days for this function are: Monday and Tuesday

This place is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To help candidates who wish to begin and to ascertain a profession in publishing, Bloomsbury affords an interest-free rental deposit to help securing someplace to reside. The rental deposit mortgage might be as much as £3,000 and might be paid again over 2 years.

Please apply with a CV and Cover Letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format solely) by way of the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing the way you meet the necessities outlined above for this function by 23:59 on Wednesday thirtieth July 2025.

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Bloomsbury reserve the precise to shut the function early if we exceed the required variety of functions. If the function is now not exhibiting on our web site as open for functions, then now we have reached the restrict. 

Bloomsbury Benefits

As nicely as a implausible alternative to affix a world award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury affords the next aggressive advantages package deal:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working sample of: 2 days workplace based mostly / 3 days residence based mostly (or absolutely workplace based mostly if most well-liked)

Holidays

• 25 days vacation
• 3.5 days Christmas firm vacation

 Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an extra 3 hours and half-hour earlier within the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight – For two weeks of any calendar 12 months. The minimal interval for Working Anywhere is one week, the utmost interval is 2 weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme

Company tradition – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders educated throughout the UK workplaces, Publishing Events and entry to free Publishing Resources

For further advantages see beneath

Bloomsbury is a spot the place anybody of any background, race, ethnicity, faith, sexuality, gender identification, age, potential, or socio-economic standing can thrive, really feel snug, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal alternatives employer and welcome functions from all sections of the group.

We are prepared to make any affordable changes all through the recruitment course of, please flag to the recruitment crew if required

Applicants should have the authorized proper to work within the UK.  

The Book Trade Charity present monetary help for individuals seeking to get into the publishing business; you will discover extra info and speak straight right here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org

The Company

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a number one unbiased publishing home, established in 1986, with authors who’ve received the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating writer and custodian of the Harry Potter collection. Bloomsbury has workplaces in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes below Bloomsbury, in addition to below a lot of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for the way it all started. 

Bloomsbury is dedicated to making a working surroundings that stimulates creativity and collaboration, is respectful of distinction, is inclusive and moral in its apply, and promotes well-being. We are decided to nurture and develop our workers to achieve their highest potential, and we all know that our success is right down to the eagerness, dedication and exhausting work of our proficient individuals. We recognise the pressing want to draw and help candidates from all backgrounds and identities to grow to be a part of the worldwide publishing business, permitting numerous voices to replicate and form our tradition and society.

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