Agents’ Assistant for Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency
Salary: $50,000 Plus Benefits: Health, Profit Sharing
Duration: Full Time
Location: New York, NY
This is a hybrid position that requires at least three full days a week in our New York City office, subject to change in the future.
Please email your cover letter and resume with the subject line “Agents’ Assistant” to lgrliterary@gmail.com. Review of applications will begin immediately.
Requirements: We’re seeking a highly organized individual with strong writing and reading skills to provide administrative and editorial support to three agents—Lindsay Edgecombe, Monika Verma, and Victoria Skurnick—representing nonfiction and fiction authors. This includes, but is not limited to: basic client management, routing contracts, coordinating and scheduling meetings, reading submissions and queries (including unsolicited queries), helping to prepare manuscripts and pitch letters, and scouting for new clients. In addition, the candidate will share general office duties, including: answering phones, greeting clients, event planning, updating databases, co-managing the agency’s unsolicited queries account, updating the agency’s website and social media accounts, filing, mailing, handling purchase orders, and assisting with book donations.
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated multitasker with excellent organizational and communication skills who has the ability to work as part of a team. We are looking for someone who is a creative problem-solver, a self-starter, a quick learner, and effective at time management.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office is a requirement, and tech savviness and familiarity with Adobe and BAITS are a plus.
About Our Company: This job is a terrific way to gain experience in the book publishing world and learn in a supportive and open office environment. Founded in 1989, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency works closely with its clients as creative and business partners throughout the entire publishing process. We have fourteen agents representing diverse authors across many genres of fiction and nonfiction, including Jay Shetty, Kwame Alexander, Dan Ariely, Allie Brosh, Ray Dalio, Gillian Flynn, Chuck Klosterman, Susan Elia MacNeal, Mary Louise Kelly, Jennifer Hillier, Nick Offerman, Emily and Amelia Nagoski, and Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit, among others. Our website is www.lgrliterary.com.
Levine Greenberg Rostan is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of all backgrounds to apply.
