Today’s the last day to apply for a Rights and Contracts Assistant position at Nosy Crow

A little ago we announced that we were recruiting a Rights and Contracts Assistant at Nosy Crow – and today is the last day to apply for the position: the deadline for applications is tonight at midnight.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a hardworking, organised individual, who is probably at the start of their career in publishing, to join Nosy Crow’s rights department as a Rights and Contracts Assistant. Impressive rights sales were a key reason we won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2018 and The Bookseller International Achievement Award at the 2018 IPG Awards, and this is your chance to be part of and contribute to our success in this fast-moving, fascinating, international area of our business.

Purpose of the Job:

The role of the Rights and Contracts Assistant is to provide administrative support to the rights department to enable the sale of translation rights and co-editions of our frontlist and backlist, create contracts for all foreign rights and co-edition sales, and contribute to the smooth running of the department.

The Rights and Contracts Assistant reports to the Rights Manager (with, at least initially, a dotted line report to the Commercial Director, who is currently responsible for generating all of our contracts).

We are a very small team and we value the organisational and creative input that we can all provide to help shape our products to be the best they can be.

Key responsibilities and tasks:

Creating and amending contracts for all foreign rights sales, and coordinating their sending and return
Creating rights appointment schedules for all book fairs attended by the Nosy Crow rights-selling team
Assisting in coordinating the sending out of the follow-up material after the fairs
Assisting in organising selling material for the Bologna and Frankfurt fairs
Organising appointment schedules and sales material for foreign trips outside of the main fairs
Organising travel and accommodation arrangements for foreign trips, including fairs
Updating the rights database containing information on all submissions, rejections and licences of our books
Co-ordinating the mail-out of foreign copies to authors, illustrators and their agents
Providing general administrative support required by the rights department
Providing some general office administrative support

 

Key skills, characteristics and capabilities:

Strong organisitional skills
Excellent attention to detail
The ability to multitask and prioritise tasks
The ability to work under pressure
Great initiative and the ability to work independently
Strong numeracy skills
Perfect written and spoken English as well as competence in at least one foreign language – Chinese Mandarin, Spanish and Portuguese are particularly sought after
Excellent communication
A strong interest in children’s literature

 

The successful candidate will have the right to live and work in the UK.

To apply, please email your CV, accompanied by a covering letter, to Kate Wilson (kate@nosycrow.com) with the subject heading Rights Assistant, telling us where you heard about the job.

Nosy Crow is an equal opportunities employer.  We believe that employing a diverse workforce is an important factor in success and make recruiting decisions based on applicants’ experience and skills.  We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.