The current opportunity is available for current Manchester Met students, to apply you must be based in the UK for the duration of the role.
Saraband is seeking an organised, enthusiastic and detail-minded student assistant to support the general activities of the team across a range of duties, working remotely.
Key Responsibilities
- Proofreading and production assistance.
- Liaising with authors, bookshops and others as needed, supporting admin for events.
- Assisting at publisher book fairs, including the Northern Publishers Fair at Manchester Central Library on 25 April.
- Assisting with online platform audits, including Amazon.
- Assisting with audiobook platform audits, including Spotify.
- Research and fact-finding and/or fact-checking, as needed.
- Assisting with creation of social media assets and content (Insta, TikTok).
- As part of a small team, you will be expected to be flexible.
Details
Dates: Late February to end of May 2026
Hours: 10-15 hours per week, negotiable and flexible
Company: Saraband
Location: Remote
The Company
Saraband is an award-winning independent publisher of literary fiction and of narrative non-fiction, in nature and place writing, history, memoir and pop culture. Over the last thirty years our authors have won and been shortlisted in awards including the Booker Prize, Paul Torday Memorial Prize, Wainwright prize for nature writing and for conservation, Polari Prize, Portico Prize, Authors’ Club First Novel, Observer Best Debuts and Scotland’s National Book Awards across all categories, amongst others. Many of these prizes and nominations have been for debuts, demonstrating a strong track record for discovering and nurturing talent. Saraband is working with 404 Ink to acquire the Inklings series, and is already publishing a number of the Inklings series in the USA. Please visit our website for more information.