Equal opportunities
Usborne is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
On this website you can browse and buy Usborne books in English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Dutch, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.
In the UK and certain countries in Europe, you can buy directly from Usborne or from an Independent Usborne Partner. In the USA you can buy books via links to Usborne Books & More, the website of our US distributors.
Elsewhere in the world we provide links to local online retailers who will fulfil and deliver your order. Please check the retailer’s delivery destinations to make sure they deliver where you are.
In China, you can buy Usborne books in English and in Chinese (simplified characters) via online and offline retailers.
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The Company
Usborne is an independent, family business, creating books which spark curiosity in children of all ages. These range from books for babies such as the bestselling That’s not my… series of touchy-feely books, to YA fiction from acclaimed authors such as Holly Bourne and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé – with everything from Magic Painting to Politics for Beginners in between. In the last five years Usborne fiction titles have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Costa Book Award, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the National Book Awards, the Books Are My Bag Readers Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Diverse Book Award.
Whilst the company is now a market-leader in children’s publishing and one of the best-known brands in children’s books, the company retains a friendly and familial feel. If you want to work somewhere close-knit enough for people to know your name, which has a first-class reputation around the world, Usborne is the place for you.
The Role
We are looking for a motivated, highly organised and proactive individual with excellent administrative and communication skills to join our busy Foreign Rights Department for a fixed term of 9 months.
Usborne’s Foreign Rights team negotiates and sells translation licences and co-editions, essentially printing multiple language versions of our books. We sell to, and negotiate with, international customers right across the world, as well as being responsible for the sale of audio, educational and film & tv rights, and dealing with permission requests.
See here for more information on working in our Rights team
This exciting opportunity will involve supporting the Foreign Rights team in managing a wide range of administrative and operational activities including:
The successful candidate will:
Location and Benefits
We offer a 35-hour working week from our Farringdon office in London, where after a successful induction period we offer a hybrid working model of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
In addition to our transparent salary grading structure, for this role we also offer a range of benefits including:
We particularly encourage applications from Black and minority ethnic candidates who are currently under-represented within this area.
To apply please access our recruitment portal Applied
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Usborne is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Based in London, near Farringdon Station. Our marketing, PR, sales, accounts, editorial, design, production, foreign rights and foreign language departments are all based in this office.
We have additional editorial and design offices in Wolverhampton and Eynsham, near Oxford, and our direct sales division, Usborne Community Partnerships, is also based in Eynsham.
In the first of a new blog series about working at Usborne, Emma Lagarde and Irene Olivo take us behind the scenes of the Usborne Rights department…