Contracts Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join our busy team as a Contracts Assistant. Nosy Crow is a multi-award winning, independent children's publishing company based in London. We make child focused, parent-friendly children's books for ages 0-12. This role is ideal for someone eager to launch their contracts career in a fast-growing company, which produces a broad range of beautiful books. The Contracts department handles approximately 1,500 contractual paperwork requests per annum which includes author and illustrator contracts, subsidiary rights agreements, licensingagreements, permission requests and other ad-hoc legal queries. The role is a full-time position and is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near London Bridge., The role of Contracts Assistant is to assist the Contracts team and the Rights team with administrative tasks related to contracts management, rights management and renewal processes. This role would suit a recent publishing graduate or someone who is keen to kickstart their career in publishing or looking for in-house contracts and rights experience., Work closely with the rest of the Contracts team in implementing a strong contracts management system across the company. - General contractual admin support. - Assist the Rights team with contracts and renewals. - Assist the Contracts team with all contractual matters relating to our subsidiarycompany, Nosy Crow Inc. - Create and maintain the Head Contracts, Foreign Rights and Permissions logs, adding all new requests and keeping logs up-to-date. - Help with permissions enquiries, both outbound and inbound. - Enter data for head contracts and foreign rights contracts onto the Biblio database. - Digitise and archive physical contracts. - Process contracts for signature using DocuSign and sending out invoices. - Assist ad-hoc Editorial, Rights, Design, Sales, Publicity & Marketing with queries relating to previous contractual terms.

Interest in rights and contracts - Accuracy and a keen eye for detail - Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise - Previous work experience demonstrating reliability, team work, computer literacy and attention to detail, not necessarily in publishing - Flexible and adaptable - Interest in Copyright and Contract law desirable but not essential - Opportunity to learn to draft contracts - Proficiency in Microsoft Office is essential, including Excel

• Pension scheme
• Hybrid working
• 25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays
• Christmas closure
• Summer hours
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Income Protection
• Critical Illness cover
• Group Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/partner/adoption leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Up to 80% off RRP for Nosy Crow book purchases
• Emergency loans
The starting salary for this role is £27,000. To apply, please email your CV, accompanied by a cover letter of not more than 500 words outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting new opportunity to Rhianna Sandford at [email protected]. We really look forward to reading your application. Please let us know if you are comfortable doing so, whether or not there are any reasonable adjustments that we should consider that would help during the recruitment process.