Editorial Assistant

Job description

We are seeking a proactive, efficient and creative editorial assistant to work primarily on the Souvenir Press list, while also offering some support to the Profile non-fiction list. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves books and wants to gain experience in trade publishing in a busy, friendly and stimulating environment.

Reporting to the Souvenir Press publishing director, you will support her in many parts of the editorial process, including organising and preparing materials for meetings, author liaison, permissions and picture research, endorser outreach and mailings, adding and maintaining excellent bibliodata, producing AIs and cover briefs, and copywriting. As you gain experience you will also read and report on submissions and manuscripts, and help to develop manuscripts and pitches.

The role is full-time (35 hours pw), Monday–Friday, based in Farringdon, London. We ask employees to commit to a minimum of 4 days a week attendance in the office during a three-month probationary period, and a minimum of 3 days a week when the probationary period is over.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to careers@profilebooks.com by 9am on the 20 February 2025. In your cover letter, please address the following questions (maximum 250 words):
Tell us about a book, published in the last year, that you’ve enjoyed.
What interests you particularly about working for Souvenir Press?
Tell us about some of the things you have done that show how well you match the person specification.

We’d love it if you had…

To be successful in the role, you will already have meaningful book industry experience as a bookseller, publishing intern or in an entry level publishing role. You will need to be a voracious reader and a fluent writer, interested in the business of books and able to analyse how readers respond to them. You’ll be creative, reliable, organised and meticulous, with brilliant attention to detail. You will be a confident and emotionally intelligent communicator, able to build good working relationships with both internal colleagues and authors, agents and other external collaborators, good at taking the initiative and able to keep a clear head when work gets busy. We strive to be a supportive and collegiate workplace that recognises and fosters excellence, driven by a love of readers, writers and ideas.

Employer details

Souvenir Press is the self-development and lifestyle imprint of Profile Books, one of the most successful independent publishers in the UK; on our award-winning imprints we publish internationally renowned names including Mary Beard, Julia Cameron, Nahid de Belgeonne, Ryan Holiday and G. T. Karber, author of the MURDLE puzzle books.