General assistant Work, Jobs in Barking Ig11 (with Salaries)

Editor, Avon
HarperCollins UK —London
- £32,000 - £35,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Communication skills
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1h
Care Assistant
Oakley House —Thames Ditton
- £13.50 - £14.00 an hour
- Part-time
- Care experience
- In-person
- Care plans
- Free parking
- Annual leave
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1h
Student Onboarding Assistant (Part-Time)
Barking & Dagenham College —London
- £22,668 - £25,082 a year
- Part-time
- Customer service
- Administrative experience
- Organisational skills
- Free parking
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Pharmacy Medical Counter Assistant
Britannia Pharmacy —Barking
- From £12.71 an hour
- Full-time
- Medication administration
- Sales
- Customer service
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Junior Butler / Personal Assistant - Private Household (Live out) - 40hrs per week
PWAssist —London
- £30,000 a year
- Weekend availability
- Microsoft Word
- Hospitality
- Management
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Part-Time Studio & Media Production Assistant
Bizgrow Media —London
- £12.71 an hour
- Part-time
- Organisational skills
- Computer skills
- In-person
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Senior Butler / Personal Assistant - Private Household (Live out) 48hrs per week
PWAssist —London
- £38,000 a year
- Weekend availability
- Microsoft Word
- Hospitality
- Management
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School Receptionist and Admin Assistant
Sevenoaks Prep School —Sevenoaks
- £26,569 a year
- Part-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Accounting
- Free parking
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14d
Administration Assistant
Jackson Lift Services Limited —London
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
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9d
General Assistant (Enfield Area) Zero Hours Contract
The Pantry Catering —Enfield
- £12.71 an hour
- Monday to Friday
- Hospitality
- Customer service
- English
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Teaching Assistant (based in Reception)
Eastcourt Independent School —Ilford
- £19,573.40 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Free parking
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10d
Office Administrator
R S Skips Ltd —Gravesend
- From £13 an hour
- Full-time
- Microsoft Outlook
- Customer service
- Administrative experience
- Free parking
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Operative Assistant / Full time (Night shift)
Natoora Ltd —London
- From £12.80 an hour
- Weekend availability
- Heavy lifting
- Forklift
- Warehouse experience
- Employee discount
- Referral programme
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Event Staff
Monopoly Events —London
- £13 - £15 an hour
- Temporary
- Hospitality
- Customer service
- In-person
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Catering Assistants - Hertford
Accent Catering Services Ltd —Hertford
- £12.71 an hour
- Part-time
- English
- Communication skills
- School
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Bespoke home help assistants
More than just a cleaner Ltd —South Woodford
- £18 - £22 an hour
- Part-time
- Microsoft Word
- Hospitality
- Microsoft Outlook
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Cook/Chef – The Jump Zone
The Jump Zone UK —Beckton
- Up to £12.72 an hour
- Part-time
- Cooking
- In-person
- Café
- Free parking
- Store discount
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1d
Bike builder / General Assistant
Cycle King and Hawk Cycles —Chadwell Heath
- £8.00 - £12.71 an hour
- Part-time
- Serving
- In-person
- Employee discount
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General Assistant
Holroyd Howe —Bushey
- £12.71 an hour
- Overtime
- Customer service
- School
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Warehouse Operative
Olleco —Erith
- £32,572.80 a year
- Full-time
- Forklift
- Driving
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10d

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Editor, Avon

HarperCollins UK
London

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Job details

Permanent
£32,000 - £35,000 a year
1 hour ago

Qualifications

Microsoft Powerpoint
Communication skills

Full job description

Description

As Editor, you will provide editorial and desk editing support across the team, as well as managing and acquiring your own list. You will have ownership of your own stable of authors, seeing them through from acquisition to publication for both physical and digital editions. You will work on a range of titles across different genres, encompassing both women’s fiction and crime and thriller, creating strategies in conjunction with key team members to launch your books to the top of the charts. This is a role with a great amount of potential for growth, and the new Editor will be an important member of our small and dynamic team. It will suit digitally-savvy candidates who have both initiative and energy, and who are excited to think creatively about how we publish our books.

It is essential that you have a strong awareness of market dynamics, in particular a broad and keen interest in commercial fiction across a range of genres, ideally with a focus on women’s fiction and crime. You should be able to prove that you keep abreast of current publishing trends, as well as displaying intuition about future trend developments. You will have been working as an Assistant Editor or Editor already, and will be able to demonstrate experience of creative and editorial input, plus an eye for detail and quality, as well as have a thorough understanding of editorial processes. You will be a confident and articulate communicator, highly organised, be able to multi-task and have a strong and active interest in social media and digital developments within the industry. You will be creative and forward-thinking, bringing with you a can-do attitude and a desire to drive your books and authors to the top of the charts. You will have experience of desk editing and the overall publishing process, and a desire for continuous learning as your role expands. This role will suit candidates who are used to working in fast-paced and exciting environments, who can think on their feet, and are happy taking initiative where necessary.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial:

Ownership of and main point of contact for own stable of authors as agreed with the Publisher, working across both women’s fiction and crime/thriller, seeing them through from acquisition to publication for both physical and digital editions.
Work on structural and line edits of own authors.
Desk editing own books, working closely with the production team and pub ops team to keep them in line with critical path.
Supporting the team on a number of titles, taking responsibility for their desk editing.
Understanding and wider reading of UK commercial women’s fiction and crime/thriller market, ensuring strong market knowledge and market-focused publishing strategies.
Briefing jackets and liaising with designers, seeing covers through from start to finish.
Copywriting and checking sales/marketing material, e.g. catalogues, sales presenters etc.
Build and foster relationships with agents, with a view to bringing in the best new talent and commissioning new titles for the Avon list.
Creating vision documents for new acquisitions, and presenting these at acquisition meetings.
To produce timely launch documents in consultation with the Publisher, Key Account Manager and Marketing Manager.
Ownership of metadata/AIs for individual authors, ensuring this fits with emerging trends in the market, and is completed in line with critical path.
Liaising with in-house digital teams to ensure understanding of digital promotions, and securing selections for books on the list

General:

Negotiate deals for new acquisitions with agents, with support from the Publisher and Contracts team as necessary.
Ensure a strong awareness of what physical retailers are looking for.
Create content for customer presentations and other presentations where necessary.
Ensure that Sales, International Sales, Audio, Digital Sales and Rights teams have all the advance sales information that they require for own titles.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Solid experience of working within the publishing industry; experience working at Assistant Editor or Editor level (or equivalent)
Be able to demonstrate sound market knowledge of and passion for commercial fiction
Experience of desk editing processes
Experience of working directly with authors
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Takes initiative
A problem solver
Quick-thinking
Creative
Extremely organised
A keen eye for detail
Interpersonal and diplomacy skills
Technically competent, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Passionate, energetic and enthusiastic
Enjoys a challenge

About HarperCollins UK

With a history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. Here at HarperCollins UK, we publish around 1,500 books a year for readers of all ages and interests.

Our bestsellers include Bernard Cornwell, Adele Parks, Jonathan Franzen, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Memoirs of British prime ministers. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. And legendary titles by legacy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis.

We’re home to the most iconic bears, Paddington, Rupert and Winnie-the-Pooh, and Judith Kerr, Rob Biddulph and Michael Morpurgo, Mr Men & Little Miss, Thomas & Friends and Minecraft for our younger readers.

We have offices in London, Honley, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin. In London, we’re in The News Building with News UK. Keeping our historic connection to Glasgow, we’re also based in the Robroyson district where each week, our distribution centre sends up to 3 million books around the world.

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