Publicity Manager, Children's Marketing and Publicity

About the Children's Division

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is one of the leading children’s publishers in the UK, dedicated to immersing children of all ages in diverse and creative reading experiences, encouraging a lifelong love of reading. Founded in 1998, it has a record of continuously strong sales, prestigious awards, and numerous high quality and bestselling titles and series. Much-loved authors and illustrators include Lauren Roberts (Powerless) A. F. Steadman (Skandar and the Unicorn Thief), Ben Miller (The Night I Met Father Christmas), Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet (Supertato), Benji Davies (The Storm Whale) and many more. Simon & Schuster Children’s Books won Children’s Publisher of the Year at the 2023 British Book Awards.

The Job Profile

Simon and Schuster Children’s Books is looking for a creative publicist to join one of the fastest growing Children’s Publishers in the UK. Managing PR campaigns for young readers of all ages this is an exciting opportunity for a well-connected and organised publicist who has a passion for children’s books and is ready for their next step in publishing.

Reporting to the Head of Publicity, Children’s the Children’s Publicity Manager will be part of a team, working across picture books and fiction as well as our newly launched platform-led Gallery Kids and YA list. They will implement their own publicity campaigns, organise and attend a variety of events and liaise with authors, agents, the media, charities and industry organisations.

The Job Role

The role’s aim is to achieve maximum PR exposure for our books through a variety of activity whilst delivering a high level of author and illustrator care. The post holder will be responsible for: setting up media coverage for their titles and authors; writing engaging copy for press releases; festival pitches and other publicity materials; managing relationships with variety of contacts including journalists; librarians and festival programmers; managing the budgets of their campaigns; and organising and attending festivals, conferences, author tours and promotional events.

The Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and highly motivated, a creative, and driven professional, preferably with experience of the publishing industry, who has previously planned and executed imaginative and creative PR campaigns.  They will have, good communication, written and social media skills, with fantastic ability to multi-task.

Please note, due to the nature of the industry the candidate maybe required to work non-office hours, including weekends, evenings and overnights, to help support at publicity events and will ideally be able to be in the office in London at least three days a week.

Apply 

Please apply by attaching your CV and cover letter telling us about yourself, in your cover letter please include a short paragraph (no more than 300 words) discussing a recent PR campaign for a book that caught your attention and explain why.