Communications Assistant

Are you creative, organised, curious and a great communicator? Are you a positive team player with a passion for children’s books? We have an exciting opportunity for a conscientious Communications Assistant to join our dynamic Communications team within Macmillan Children’s Books. You will play an essential support role across all communications functions and across a wide range of titles, from pre-school to young adult and crossover.

Your team: Macmillan Children’s Books is one of the UK’s leading children’s publishers, creating and publishing absorbing and exciting stories for children of all ages for over 150 years. We are proud to publish best-selling and prize-winning authors and illustrators including Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, Rod Campbell, Chris Riddell, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Frances Hardinge, Tomi Adeyemi and many more. Our creative and experienced communications team sits at the heart of the business, collaborating closely with UK and international sales teams, the editorial and design teams, authors, agents and partners. We champion a culture of collaboration and innovation to deliver best-in-class campaigns that get all children reading.

Your role: As the Communications Assistant, you will support the Communications Director to ensure efficient operations within the MCB Communications team.

Your key responsibilities:

• Assist in organising team meetings and taking minutes.
• Facilitate the marketing creative approval process.
• Support with author and illustrator presentations.
• Support with mailings, donations, digital book proofs and office management.
• Serve as a point of contact for authors and publicists.
• Coordinate MCB book award submissions.
• Manage social media inboxes and engage with brand accounts.
• Assist in tracking budgets and processing invoices.

Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:

• Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Exceptional time management and organisational abilities.
• Experience in an office-based setting.

Desirable skills we’d love you to have:

• A passion for children’s books and/or media.
• The ability to solve problems practically and work collaboratively within a team.

What you’ll get in return: In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

Salary: £26,500

Closing date: 5 January 2025

Some of the benefits we offer:

• 28 days’ annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Discounted private medical insurance.
• Group income protection scheme.
• Enhanced family pay and leave.
• Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months).
• 2 Volunteer Days per year.
• 75% off all Pan Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates).
• Season ticket loan/advance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings.
• Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch.

This is a full time, permanent role based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week. All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.

At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at every level of our organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals, including any age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DEI are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices.

You can read our full Diversity & Inclusion Pledge here: Diversity & Inclusion Pledge.

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