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Publishing assistant, Sydney

Hachette Australia x MDA

In partnership with Media Diversity Australia, Hachette Australia has an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic, and highly organised individual to join our award-winning publishing team as a publishing assistant. Media Diversity Australia is calling for expressions of interest from anyone who has relevant industry experience, from bookselling to journalism, or who has relevant tertiary qualifications in publishing, communications, English, or creative writing.

This is a two-year, entry-level traineeship and will include full-time employment at Hachette Australia, paired with mentorship from senior Hachette staff and external mentors provided by MDA. Located at Hachette’s Sydney CBD head office, you will be working closely with all divisions and departments, ensuring that Hachette Australia’s authors and books are fully supported.

As the publishing assistant, you will be required to multitask and build effective working relationships with our wonderful authors, colleagues and external contacts, and assist with our children’s, nonfiction, literary and fiction lists with varied administrative tasks to ensure our books and authors are supported and published well. The successful applicant will have a genuine passion for reading, an interest in how books are produced, and an ambition to have a career in the publishing industry.

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you’re interested in this opportunity, please visit mediadiversityaustralia.org/opportunities/ for more details and how to apply.

Job details

Job: Publishing assistant
Company: Hachette Australia x MDA
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full-time traineeship
Closing date: 6 September 2024
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