The Book Cove is South Africa’s first exclusive, special edition book box subscription and we’re looking for a new friend to join our team as an Administrative Assistant 💜 we’re a small group who are incredibly passionate about bringing bookish joy into people’s lives.

This role is:

• Open to South African citizens (with a preference for Durban, but open to all as we find our perfect team friend 💜)
• Full-time (times to be discussed)
• Remote (with occasional office days if in Durban)

You’d be a perfect fit for this role if you:

• Are a reader who would love to help us grow our visions and expand
• Have strong organisational skills
• Have strong time management skills
• Have strong communication skills and can adapt in different contexts
• Are able to work well independently, but also within a small team
• Do not utilise generative AI for your communications, any writing or imagery and will not feed our communications, any writing or imagery into generative AI.

You would be:

• Communicating with publishers, authors, artists and suppliers
• Assisting with shipment and package cycles
• Assisting with general administrative and research tasks
• Assistance with sale set up/ management and general website updates on Shopify + our internal systems
• Ensuring project timelines and statuses are up to date
• Ensuring tasks and milestones are being met and updating accordingly
• Ensuring information is updated frequently across platforms to ensure team/customers are always aware of the different statuses of our productions

In addition, you would also need to be:

• Willing to travel with us to events such as Comic Con Africa, Comic Con Cape Town etc
• Ideally from Durban, but we’re open to applicants in all areas of South Africa as we search for our perfect team friend 💜