Rights & Publishing Services Assistant

Job description

The Rights & Publishing Services Assistant role brings together two new growth opportunities for Liverpool University Press.

Fifty percent of the time will be devoted to supporting the expansion of Liverpool Distribution Services, a boutique sales, marketing and distribution service offered by Liverpool University Press to other high quality university presses.

Duties in this half of the role, which reports to the Distributed Presses Manager, will include:
• Assisting with the onboarding of new client presses including metadata ingestion, meeting admin, website updates, and loading books to Amazon
• Sales and marketing support for the day-to-day operation of the client presses including daily/weekly data, stock, and sales checks, reviews management and liaising with key third parties

The other fifty percent of the time will be devoted to rights sales, and for this the position will report to the Digital Sales & Rights Manager. Duties will include:
• Proactively researching revenue-generating rights sales opportunities, including international translation rights sales
• Establishing a network of rights sub-agents
• The preparation and circulation of marketing materials to support rights sales
• Liaison with Editorial and Finance teams as required to negotiate or process rights opportunities

In addition to handling rights sales for LUP and some of its current partner, the role will also work with colleagues to offer a rights sales service to other university presses

We’d love it if you had…

• Demonstrable interest in scholarly publishing, evidenced through prior employment, qualification or sustained work experience
• A good honours degree. As a university press, we always welcome higher academic qualifications too
• Experience of data entry to a high degree of accuracy
• Strong organisational and communication skills and a commitment to provide excellent service
• The ability to work well independently, as well as have enthusiasm to contribute to a lively and ambitious team

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss the role with people from backgrounds under-represented in the publishing industry