Experienced Publicist

Maternity cover, part-time [0.8]

Line Manager: UK Publisher
Salary: £40,000-£42,000 pro rata
Location: London (hybrid)
Application deadline: 28 April, 2025

Verso Books is looking for an experienced Publicist to join the team in our London office, covering a maternity period (starting Mid July 2025 through to March 2026). The successful candidate will be responsible for securing interviews, reviews, features, op-eds, events, broadcast and online coverage for allocated titles, working across a wide range of subject areas (including politics and world history, economics and sociology, ecology and climate change, race, gender and feminism, art and culture).

Duties include:

• Responsible for publicity coverage ranging across print, online, broadcast media, and events, as allocated.
• Pre-season title strategy planning: putting together publicity planning sheets, developing and executing publicity plans and presenting these campaigns to internal and external stakeholders including editors, authors and agents.
• Meeting with key media/events contacts to discuss current and upcoming books, alongside Senior Publicist.
• Being a point of contact for Verso authors to deal with publicity queries.
• Feedback on new editorial projects including publicity potential and positioning.
• Circulating publicity company-wide including weekly updates, and keeping individual departments up-to-date about forthcoming publicity.
• Coordinating on marketing campaigns as required.
• Adhering to a publicity budget.
• Managing publicity databases and contact lists.

The applicant should have:

• At least three years experience working on national publicity campaigns.
• Proven ability to achieve mainstream publicity for non-fiction titles in print, broadcast, podcast and online.
• An exceptional network of publicity contacts in national print, broadcast and online media.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns with many authors and stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, GSuite.
• Ideally, an understanding of, and sympathy with, Verso’s intellectual project.
  
  

Perks and Benefits [pro rata]

• 30 Days Annual Leave
• Office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
• Summer Hours every Friday from start of June to end of August.
• Life Assurance and Employee Assistance Programme.
  

To apply

Please send a cv and cover letter to opportunities@verso.co.uk.