Tasks will be varied but will broadly include those to assist in the smooth-running of the editorial department, including:

• Preparing, sending out and returning contracts
• Assessing book proposals and sending emails/letters of acknowledgement and rejection
• Sending out copies of published books
• Maintaining physical and electronic book files and records
• Carrying out manuscript checks ahead of handover to production
• Helping with the peer review process
• Submitting books into the print on demand programme
• Completing pro forma such as cheque requisitions and book orders
• Briefing book cover designs to the Design Team
• Commissioning marketing endorsements for key titles
• Clearing permissions
• Carrying out research into new projects
• Administrative tasks such as filing and archiving of paperwork
• Creating and maintaining online resources for key titles

To meet the requirements of the Level 4 Publishing Professional apprenticeship programme you will need to spend 6 hours a week of your time undertaking off-the-job learning, which will include:

• Formal training, including online learning and internal learning events
• 1-2-1s with your coach and line manager
• Observing and shadowing colleagues
• Writing up learning reflections for your portfolio

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.