Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.  

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.  

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge.  We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you. 

Taylor & Francis Books is currently recruiting for a part-time Prepress Coordinator for a maternity cover contract to oversee the production of new titles from receipt of the author’s uncopyedited typescript through to delivery of the final content, providing support to external project managers and ensuring new books meet our quality requirements.

This is a part time opportunity for approximately 24 hours per week (0.68 FTE).

Closing date for applications: 21st May 2024.  Applications will be shortlisted on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Commissioning, preparing material for, managing and feeding back to external project managers.
• Entering and maintaining up-to-date information on our database.
• Communicating with colleagues in other departments as necessary.
• Controlling and maintaining schedules.
• Quality control of final content.
• Controlling budgets, assessing and coding invoices for prompt supplier payment.
• Liaising with authors if required, and providing necessary support.
• Completing multiple tasks to deadlines.

Full training will be provided.

What we are ideally looking for:

• Accustomed to prioritising and working to deadlines.
• Organised and able to multi-task.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify spelling and grammatical errors.
• An understanding of the importance of maintaining information relied on by others, ideally through experience of using a database.
• A good communicator, both written and verbal, able to represent the company professionally and contribute to the team.
• Basic skills in MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Ability to problem-solve and work effectively, both on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• Experience of working within budgets.
• An aptitude and enthusiasm for working with new technology and dealing with people, and an ability to adapt well to change.

This role will be based in the UK and you must have the right to live and work in the UK. Taylor & Francis has flexible hybrid working options for how employees can work based on their role.

What We Offer In Return:

• A salary of £31,025 full time equivalent (pro rata for part time)
• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture.  
• 25 days annual leave per annum (full time equivalent) plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time)
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance as standard
• 4 paid volunteering days annually 
• Additional day off for your birthday each year
• Additional discretionary 3 days off each year to cover the holiday period in December
• Pension contributions
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development opportunities

Training And Professional Development: 

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support, and coaching that will get you where you want to be. 

Interview process: 

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.  

Taylor & Francis Group an Informa Business 

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact [email protected]  

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis 

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and contribute regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life. 

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit-based factor. 

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers 

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/