Senior Publicist

HarperCollins Publishers Australia

3.8

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Sydney NSW

Editing & Publishing (Advertising, Arts & Media)

Full time

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HarperCollins Australia is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic professional to join the HarperCollins Adult Books marcomms division in the role of Senior Publicist. This is a full-time position, based at our head office in Sydney’s CBD.

The purpose of the role is to work closely with the Publicity Manager and Head of Marketing and Communications to develop strategic, creative and innovative publicity campaigns for fiction and non-fiction titles across the local and international lists of the HarperCollins Adult Books division.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

• Plan and implement fully integrated publicity campaigns for the Adult Books division’s local and international authors

• Collaborate with the publishing, marketing and sales teams to deliver creative and stand-out publicity campaigns in line with the company strategy and campaign budget

• Pitch and secure review and feature coverage across relevant media, including newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, podcasts, online and social media

• Write media materials for internal and external use

• Plan and execute in-person author launches, events and national tours to raise author profile and generate sales

• Accompany authors to events and media bookings around the country

• Attend writers’ festivals, conferences, conventions and relevant industry meetings and act as a public face of HarperCollins Australia

• Develop and maintain relationships with key journalists, producers and booksellers

• Other duties as required

The successful candidate will possess:

• A demonstrable publicity background working in publishing, the arts, or similar

• Strong relationships across Australian media

• Excellent time management andplanning with the ability to work effectively across multiple projects withvarious deadlines

• Great attention to detail

• Strong written and verbal skills

To be effective in this role you will have experience working on fully integrated and dynamic publicity campaigns as well as experience organising and managing author tours and events, excellent interpersonal skills, and be positive and self-motivated, with a keen interest in books.

At HarperCollins ANZ we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We invite candidates of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientation and people with disability to apply for this or any other advertised role on offer.

If this sounds like you, apply now! Only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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Company profile

HarperCollins Publishers

3.8

·

5 reviews

HarperCollins occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations we are the oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century – and the most forward thinking in terms of our transition to the global digital world of today.

Through the decades, our publishing has been distinguished by a commitment to quality and creativity plus an innate understanding of what Australians and New Zealanders want to read and how. Authors and their work have always been at the heart of our company – without authors there would be no HarperCollins. Publishing is a highly collaborative business: everyone in the company contributes in some way to maximising our author’s work.

Our company has an equally long heritage globally and indeed today we are able to work more closely than ever before with colleagues around the world to ensure that our local titles are exploited internationally. The modern-day HarperCollins Publishers was founded in 1989 by the amalgamation of three proud publishing houses – Harper & Row (founded in New York in 1817), William Collins (founded in Glasgow in 1819) and Angus & Robertson (founded in Sydney in the 1880s).

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

HarperCollins occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations we are the oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century – and the most forward thinking in terms of our transition to the global digital world of today.

Through the decades, our publishing has been distinguished by a commitment to quality and creativity plus an innate understanding of what Australians and New Zealanders want to read and how. Authors and their work have always been at the heart of our company – without authors there would be no HarperCollins. Publishing is a highly collaborative business: everyone in the company contributes in some way to maximising our author’s work.

Our company has an equally long heritage globally and indeed today we are able to work more closely than ever before with colleagues around the world to ensure that our local titles are exploited internationally. The modern-day HarperCollins Publishers was founded in 1989 by the amalgamation of three proud publishing houses – Harper & Row (founded in New York in 1817), William Collins (founded in Glasgow in 1819) and Angus & Robertson (founded in Sydney in the 1880s).

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

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