Usborne Publishing Ltd
London
Full Time
Permanent
Closing date: 10th November 2024
Salary: £29,904 to £35,176 per annum
Role: Full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract
Location: Farringdon, London
Join this creative publicity team and lead PR campaigns that spark curiosity in young readers worldwide!
Usborne is an independent, family business, creating books which spark curiosity in children of all ages. These range from books for babies such as the bestselling THAT'S NOT MY series of touchy-feely books, to YA fiction from acclaimed authors such as Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Ravena Guron - with everything from Sticker Dolly Dressing to Philosophy for Beginners in between. Whilst the company is now a market-leader in children's publishing and one of the best-known brands in children's books globally, the company retains a friendly and familial feel. If you want to work somewhere close-knit enough for people to know your name, but which has a first-class reputation around the world, Usborne is the place for you.
UK Marketing and Publicity department is a close-working and collaborative team of 10 who create innovative and award-winning marketing and publicity campaigns. The publicity team maintain and develop the reputation of the Usborne brand, publicising and promoting Usborne books, series, sub-brands and authors, with the overall aim of increasing sales.
You will be responsible for devising and delivering creative, innovative and impactful PR campaigns for Usborne's high-profile list and multi-award-winning brands, working closely with our in-house and external authors to increase book sales and ensure excellent author care. You will be given a varied and exciting list of campaigns to work on throughout the year with the support and management of the Head of Publicity.
We are looking for a highly organised individual with excellent time management and prioritisation skills who is keen to capitalise on their existing Publicity experience in a role which, with support, will also provide them with significant opportunities to work independently and with autonomy.
Responsibilities
Knowledge, skills and experience
The nature of Publicity roles mean you will need the flexibility to travel and work out of normal office hours when necessary and stay away from home on occasion.
Additional information
We offer a 35-hour working week from our Farringdon office in London, where after a successful induction period we offer a hybrid working model of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home which we feel optimises our opportunities for collaboration and contact with our colleagues.
Benefits
In addition to our transparent salary grading structure, for this role we also offer a range of benefits including:
Recruitment process
After an anonymised shortlisting process, we anticipate first interviews taking place in person at our London office w/c 25th November, with second round interviews taking place shortly after.
Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the application and/or recruitment process.
AI notice
We kindly ask that you refrain from using any AI tools for your application.
Whilst AI is undoubtedly a useful tool in some instances, we need to see that you're able to demonstrate your ability to originate ideas and write them in a compelling manner, not just generate them using a tool.
Usborne is dedicated to building a diverse taskforce that reflects the wide range of communities that read our books globally. Decisions are made based on the individual's skills and experiences and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics in Publishing.
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role and therefore applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Please state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.
Usborne Publishing Ltd
London
Full Time
Permanent