- Full time, permanent contract

- Salary: £27,000 per annum

- Hours: mix of 7:45am – 4pm and 10:30am - 6:45pm

- Office based, Central London
- Closing date: 27 August 2025

Thames & Hudson-thamesandhudson.com – is the leading global publisher of illustrated books on all aspects of human creativity, the visual arts, history and popular culture. As a key member of our Operations team, you’ll play an important role assisting with a variety of facilities related tasks and matters. The ideal candidate will be proactive, well-presented and, as a first point of contact, take pride in creating a positive first impression.

The Role

• Share the provision of a professional, friendly welcome on reception
• Act as point of contact for all post and logistics related matters – such as managing courier despatch, internal storage and stock, emails, in and outgoing mail, telephone and helpdesk
• Move furniture, deliveries and equipment around the office, as requested; arranging set up of meetings and communal areas for author and staff events.
• Participate as a member of the Internal Events team
• Carry out building and meeting room checks daily, ensuring any issues are dealt with promptly and efficiently and reported to the Office Manager.
• Ensure that the corridors, communal areas, and fire exits are clear of rubbish, including the front area of the building and generally help to maintain a high standard of tidiness
  around the office.
• Ensure that the reception is clean, safe presentable at all times and stocked with promotional material.
• Assist the Office Manager with administrative tasks when required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

• Experience of a similar role
• Experience in a customer facing or service role, preferably in an office environment
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Reasonable physical strength and dexterity, as you will sometimes need to lift or load heavy packages and operate trolleys.
• Organised and consistently reliable, capable of calmly sustaining your workload to a very high standard.
• Collaborative team player with a flexible, open-minded approach and the ability to adapt to changing priorities
• Highly focused, self-motivated and enthusiastic.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

 At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to our continuing success, and selection decisions are based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion or belief.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements above to Sophie Castle, recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk. The deadline for applications is 27 August 2025.

Apart from working with a highly talented and creative group of people, we offer:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for a rent deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and co-editions
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of museums and galleries, nationwide

And more!

- Full time, permanent from mid-July 2025

- Salary: £32,000–£33,000

- Hybrid working potential with 3 days in house, at the Central London office, and 2 days home working

- Closing date: 7 September 2025

Thames & Hudson – thamesandhudson.com. – is the leading global publisher of illustrated books on all aspects of human creativity, the visual arts, history and popular culture, and has developed a successful list of beautiful, fully illustrated textbooks aimed at the North American and international higher-education markets. We have a rare opportunity for an experienced and well-organized Project Editor to work for us. You will join a dynamic department, working on several projects with distinguished academic authors, and often in the vanguard of innovative digital educational media. This is a chance to gain additional specialist editorial skills with great potential application to many areas of the industry for the future.

Based in our central London office, the Project Editor will form a vital part of the editorial team at T&H Ltd and will also liaise closely with colleagues in the T&H Inc. College editorial team, who are based in New York.

The Role

Reporting directly to the Managing Editor, College, this is a key editorial role in the College team, including:

• Project-managing several large and complex illustrated books simultaneously through every stage of the book-making process, and working on a wide variety of digital media, including illustrated e-pubs, student quiz programs, videos, animations, image banks and other instructor and student resources
• Copy-editing to a sustainedly very high standard
• Assessing and checking illustrated layouts in InDesign
• Assessing images for quality
• Preparing cover-design briefs and checking cover designs and backboard copy
• Proofreading with meticulous attention to detail
• Briefing indexers and copy-editing indexes
• Briefing and supervising freelance book and e-media editors
• Preparing final text files for print and e-pubs
• Working collaboratively with colleagues, as a team player
• Working directly with authors, illustrators, institutional contacts and freelancers
• Preparing book-fair materials

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Substantial editorial experience, including project management and hands-on editing of highly illustrated non-fiction books
• Ability to work and multi-task largely on own initiative and to take full responsibility for timely delivery of several top-quality, complex projects being produced simultaneously
• Superb organizational and time-management ability
• A thorough knowledge of the book-making process from manuscript through to printed product
• Good proficiency working in Microsoft packages, specifically Word, Excel and Outlook, and experience of working in Adobe InDesign and Acrobat Pro; the ideal candidate will also be familiar with preparing e-books and addressing accessibility considerations
• Ability to problem-solve quickly and efficiently
• Experience of and a genuine commitment to higher education in the arts and humanities
• A good degree, preferably in art history, archaeology, history, Classics or English Literature
• Impeccable copy-editing and proofreading skills, with an
  excellent command of English and American spelling and grammar
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Significant visual awareness and the ability to assess layouts accurately
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence and sensitivity in liaising directly and collaborating with third parties, including academic authors and editorial freelancers
• A sensitive and proactive approach towards diversity and inclusivity
• A willingness to deal with new challenges and acquire fresh
  skills as needed, especially in the digital arena.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to our continuing success, and selection decisions are based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race,
religion or belief.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements above to Sophie Castle, recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk.  The deadline for applications is 7 September 2025. 

Apart from working with a highly talented and creative group
of people, we offer:

• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for a rent deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and co-editions
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of museums and galleries, nationwide

And more!

- Full time, maternity cover from October 2025

- Salary: £28,000–£29,000

- Hybrid working potential based in Central London

- Closing date: 7 September 2025

Thames & Hudson is the leading global publisher of illustrated books on all aspects of human creativity, the visual arts, history and popular culture.

We are seeking a motivated individual to manage our bibliographic metadata across internal systems and external-facing platforms; checking data accuracy and completeness at key points in a title’s lifecycle, handling corrections as required and communicating critical data changes to key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee title setup, ISBN allocation, data accuracy, and lifecycle updates.
• Ensure accurate metadata distribution via ONIX with the Distributed Publisher Data Executive.
• Manage customer group/account data for sales reporting.
• Maintain rights, permissions, and closed market data per team instructions.
• Uphold data entry standards, processes, and provide staff training.
• Manage initial and ongoing ONIX metadata releases, including CoreSource and website updates.
• Coordinate weekly dues releases and support quarterly title launches.
• Issue seasonal lists/schedules, review catalogues, and generate barcodes.
• Manage Edelweiss assets and assist in creating catalogues and sales tools.
• Serve as first contact for data issues; escalate bugs to IT.
• Support bibliographic system development and testing activities.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience working at a publisher or with bibliographic data
• Proficient in Microsoft Office & Excel, including the use of vlookups and pivot tables          
• Confident in manipulating large volumes of data accurately        
• Experience of bibliographic databases a plus

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. 

At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to our continuing success, and selection decisions are based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race,
religion or belief.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements above to Victoria Fishpool, recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk.  The deadline for applications is 7 September 2025. 

Apart from working with a highly talented and creative group
of people, we offer:

•  28 days holiday
  plus bank holidays
• Pastry Wednesdays
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and bought-ins
• Charity days
• Generous pension
  contributions
• And more!