PR Assistant, Barrington Stoke (9 month FTC), City of Edinburgh

As Publicity Assistant you will join Barrington Stoke’s small and friendly, highly effective and hard-working Marketing and PR team. You will be working with big name, established children’s authors and illustrators, for an innovative award-winning imprint, which specialises in publishing top quality accessible short fiction to enable every child to become a reader. This role is ideally suited to an organised and detail-focused candidate who has initiative and energy. We are looking for someone with a passion for children’s books, PR and marketing, who is looking to kick start their career in the publishing sector.

• Support the PR Manager with all new title campaigns, backlist promotion and author care
• Organise Press Mailings
• Support author and company events, coordinating logistics, sending materials and book stock (some weekend and evening work required)
• Handle award submissions and associated tasks
• Organising author travel
• Assist with key publicity tracking documents
• Stay in tune with children’s publishing to maintain awareness of the market

• A motivated and proactive self-starter with a can do attitude and the ability to remain calm under pressure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Collaborative team player
• Attention to details and excellent organisational skills
• Have a genuine passion for children’s books and Barrington Stoke’s mission to offer high quality accessible stories to reluctant and struggling young readers

• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days)
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Private healthcare cover and life assurance
• Summer Hours
• Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal
• Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme
• Relocation Rent Support Loan
• Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work
• Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes
• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers
• Charitable donation matching and 2 volunteering days
• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company
• Free e-books and audiobooks, digital newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books