**Overview**

We have an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Assistant to join the Storytide imprint of the HarperChildren’s editorial team! The Editorial Assistant will provide administrative and editorial support to an editorial director and an executive editor, as well as overall imprint support, with a focus on fiction for middle-grade and teen readers.

This role is based in New York City and will require someone in commutable distance to come into the office on a hybrid basis.

**Responsibilities**

+ Works with supervisors on the progress of book projects from acquisition to publication and beyond by managing schedules, maintaining records, and acting as the in-house liaison between Editorial, other internal departments, and authors and agents.
+ Traffics manuscripts through production and maintains intra-departmental communication to meet publishing deadlines.
+ Assists supervisors in the acquisitions process by reading and evaluating man...