Contracts Assistant

Job description

The role of Contracts Assistant is to assist the Contracts Team and the Rights Team with administrative tasks related to contracts management, rights management and renewal processes. This role would suit a recent publishing graduate or someone who is keen to kickstart their career in publishing or looking for in-house contracts and rights experience.

Key responsibilities and tasks will range from working closely with the rest of the Contracts Team in implementing a strong contracts management system across the company, general contractual admin support, assisting the Rights Team with contracts and renewals, assisting the Contracts Team with all contractual matters relating to our subsidiary company, Nosy Crow Inc, creating and maintaining Head Contracts, Foreign Rights and Permissions logs, adding all new requests and keeping logs up-to-date, helping with permissions enquiries both inbound and outbound, entering data for Head Contracts and Foreign Rights Contracts onto the Biblio database, digitising and archiving physical contracts, processing contracts for signature using DocuSign and sending out invoices, and assisting ad-hoc Editorial, Rights, Design, Sales, Publicity & Marketing with queries relating to previous contractual terms.

We’d love it if you had…

• Interest in rights and contracts
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Fine attention to detail (essential)
• Organised, with the ability to prioritise effectively
• Previous work experience demonstrating reliability, team work, computer literacy and attention to detail, not necessarily in publishing
• A team player with a willingness to be fully involved in the business
• Interest in Copyright and Contract law (desirable)
• Opportunity to learn to draft contracts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is essential, including Excel

No prior publishing experience is necessary in order to apply for the role.

Employer details

Nosy Crow is a multi-award winning, independent children’s publishing company with operations in both the UK and the USA. We make child-focused, parent-friendly children’s books for ages 0-12.

The Contracts Department handles approximately 1,500 contractual paperwork requests per annum which includes author and illustrator contracts, subsidiary rights agreements, licensing agreements, permission requests and other ad-hoc legal queries.