**Closing date**: 21st May 2025
**Company**: Simon & Schuster Australia
**Location**: Melbourne
**Type**: Editorial Team
**Status**: Full time, Permanent
Description
Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, is dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the most popular and widely recognised writers including Hannah Grace, Leigh Sales, Sarah Di Lorenzo, Judith Lucy, Sam Kerr, Anita Heiss, Chloe Hooper, Nedd Brockmann and Gina Chick.
The Job Profile
This role supports all aspects of publishing by assisting senior editorial staff in the core administration of the commissioning, planning and production of books.
The Role
This role would involve close involvement in all editorial administration activities leading to publication across titles, including (but not limited to): managing departmental meetings and rights catalogues, running reports and checking sales data; developing and maintaining content on the databases; departmental diary management; organising author publication gifts; and organising schedules for events and staff travel.
**There are also other responsibilities, including**: reading submissions; awards submissions; ordering gratis copies and legal deposits, creating presentations for internal conferences, maintaining best-in-class metadata; liaising with authors and agents.
They'll be a keen team player with an ability to interact at all levels, who can understand and respond to team needs, shifting priorities, and work collaboratively to meet deadlines. This role doesn't require prior publishing experience, but someone who is passionate about books, eager to learn and excited to take the first step in their publishing career.
Simon & Schuster Australia is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). At Simon & Schuster Australia, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do. From employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources, and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Simon & Schuster Australia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world's oldest living cultures.