Job title: Publishing Fellow
Company: Princeton University Press
Location: Remote OR Hybrid - Oxford UK office
Salary: £23,000/year
Is the role permanent? No
Is the role full-time? Yes
Contact details: [email protected]
Apply: https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=93157%26clientkey=974A67DA17E8D95AE1C19CF4D8426F23
Closing date: 29 January 2023

Job description

Princeton University Press (PUP) Publishing Fellowship, an initiative launched in January of 2021 aimed at addressing a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, is collecting applications for third year fellows. The application is open from 9 January to 29 January 2023, and the fellowship will run from 3 July 2023 to 28 June 2024. Selected applicants will be notified no later than 21 March 2023.

The Publishing Fellowship is a full-time, salaried position, which includes benefits and a relocation stipend (if applicable). Fellows will be supervised and mentored by hosts in the Press’s Oxford, UK office, and will have the option of working remotely (within the UK) or in office as PUP is a staff-choice hybrid organization. The UK fellow will collaborate with the Marketing & Sales team to support the Press’s in-house speaking agency, PUP Speaks.

The world of books and ideas can truly thrive only when there is diversity and inclusivity of voices—at every stage of the publishing process. Recent changes in the representation of industry leadership, in trade and scholarly publishing alike, are inspiring. But statistics reported by The Publishers Association (UK) and the Lee & Low The Diversity Baseline Survey make acutely clear the need for ambitious and purposeful industry transformation. As the Lee & Low Survey notes, “Until we start to care about equity, we will not make progress, and any gains the industry makes will continue to not be statistically significant.”

The Princeton University Press Fellowship, funded to run for five years, is designed for individuals with no prior publishing experience, who are from communities historically underrepresented within publishing, which Lee & Low data shows to be a majority white, straight, cis gendered, and non-disabled industry. Applicants from a diversity of educational backgrounds are encouraged to apply; in keeping with the intentions of creating opportunities with the fellowship, we are not accepting applicants with advanced degrees.

UK Fellowship Description for 3 July 2023 to 28 June 2024

PUP Speaks is the in-house speaking agency for Princeton University Press. Launched in June 2021, it supports a limited number of PUP authors in their paid speaking engagements, as well as helping up-and-coming speakers build their platforms. You can learn more about the program here. The PUP Speaks Fellow will join the Head of PUP Speaks in growing and developing this exciting new initiative, which alongside offering speaker support also seeks to advance the Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (EIB) commitments of the Press. Key responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting, pitching, negotiating, and arranging paid speaking engagements for a select group of authors signed as speakers
  • Assisting the Head of PUP Speaks in the daily running of the department
  • Managing speaker event portfolios and relationships with host contacts
  • Promoting PUP Speaks both internally (through the organization of regular newsletters and updates) and externally (through content creation and organic outreach)
  • Overseeing a project to identify underrepresented scholars with speaking potential, and bringing them into the program

The perks of being a PUP Fellow!

  • • Full-time employment with equivalent annual compensation (current salary £23,000) for a PUP entry-level role with benefits.
  • • Participation in an organization that is committed to learning, collaborating, and empowering staff, and mission driven impact.
  • • An immersive training in nonfiction publishing — trade, textbook, scholarly, digital, and audio, inclusive of publishing processes and systems.
  • • Empowerment of fellows with meaningful employment and industry education to successfully pursue careers in publishing.
  • • Opportunities to learn from a variety of departments and meet with staff throughout the Press’s global teams (US, Europe, China)
  • • Professional development workshops to support the acquisition of skills useful to pursuing future careers in publishing, scholarly communications, academia, or other writing-related fields.
  • • Opportunity to attend meetings to gain insight into editorial, marketing, design, and sales-related decision-making processes.
  • • Supervisors who act as mentors, providing support and advice, and who work to further the fellow’s appreciation and understanding of academic publishing.
  • • Mentoring and early career coaching, including job-search support (e.g., application material review, interview guidance).
  • • Alumni cohort opportunity post-fellowship (e.g., involvement with fellowship selection for subsequent year fellows)
  • • A relocation stipend of up to £2000 will be provided at the appropriate time to help with moving expenses for fellows who choose to be on-site.
  • • Learn more about the PUP fellowship experience, ideas, and inspiration from the inaugural and current fellows at https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-and-inspiration-from-princeton-university-presss-inaugural-fellows and https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-and-inspiration-from-princeton-university-press-fellows

Applicant Fellowship Requirements

  • No prior publishing experience.
  • Must be at least 18 years old and have current legal authorisation to work immediately in the UK. PUP will not attempt to obtain Immigration and labour sponsorship for any applicants.
  • Preference will be given to individuals who are lawfully eligible to work in the UK without employer sponsorship and have never worked in publishing. PUP strongly encourages applications from individuals who will contribute to increasing representation, and diversity of thought and experience within the publishing industry.
  • This is an entry-level position, and no specific industry experience or educational qualifications are required.
  • Basic familiarity and proficiency with Microsoft Office suite and comfort with internet research.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks.
  • Comfortable interacting with a diversity of individuals, internally and externally, and by Zoom and in person (if applicable).
  • Natural curiosity and ability to ask questions in a learning environment.
  • Excellent writing skills and strong editorial judgement, the ability to multi-task, and be detail-oriented.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills for professional email correspondence.

Application Instructions

Applications will only be accepted via PUP’s application website at: https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=93157&clientkey=974A67DA17E8D95AE1C19CF4D8426F23

To complete an application, include written responses to the following questions:

  • Tell us what you hope to learn about publishing and workplace experience in this fellowship? (replies can be as broad or specific as you’d like).
  • Share with us a story, or book, or another form of narrative that has meaning to you, and why?
  • Please tell us something you feel is important for your colleagues to know about you?

Submit written responses to the above questions via a WORD or PDF document by uploading to the application website. Note that the question responses are the only requirement to submit an application.

Please do not submit additional documents (e.g. personal statement, resume, recommendation letters).

Questions or problems with applications may be sent to [email protected]

The deadline for applications is Sunday 29 January 2023.

Selected applicants will be notified no later than 21 March 2023.

Due to application volume, only finalists will be contacted. For more information on Princeton University Press, visit http://press.princeton.edu/
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