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About the Role
As a bilingual Proofreader (French and English), you will play a critical role in maintaining the integrity and precision of all client communications, conducting thorough linguistic quality control in both languages across diverse projects. This position requires a strong background in editing, the ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines, and a proactive approach to troubleshooting potential issues, ensuring that all content is error-free, on-brand, and effectively conveys the intended message.
Responsibilities
- Read and evaluate written text for grammatical and typographical error
- Compare layouts against original copy to identify errors or omissions
- Maintain brand-specific stylistics, aiming for internal project consistency and consistency across all projects for a specific brand
- Own an assigned brand style guide, investigating and researching stylistic questions
- Offer suggestions to content owners to ensure document structure and content are consistent, and to clarify intended meaning
- Communicate questions and corrections clearly to the intended stakeholder, opening dialogue for further discussion when necessary
- Align the intention of the writers and the art direction for a final quality check before project completion
- Collaborate to ensure work produced is consistently of the highest quality
- Liaise with writers, art directors, graphic designers, Account Service team members, and others to validate the intention of pieces are applied accurately and without error
- Open a dialogue and manage discussion for larger brand-specific stylistic questions
- Troubleshoot and investigate errors, potential issues, and other problems during the linguistic quality control step
- Manage and prioritize workload to deliver within tight deadlines
- Work with integrity on all projects and be accountable for delivering on expectations
- Be open to feedback and apply brand-specific feedback to future projects
- Use proofreading software for initial checks before performing a full read-through and stylistic check
- Engage with assigned tasks and manage workload via project management software
Requirements
- Full professional proficiency in both French and English, with demonstrated experience proofreading and editing in both languages
- 3 to 5 years of experience in linguistic quality control (proofreading, copy editing, structural editing, stylistic editing, comparative editing, web editing, medical editing, etc.)
- Scientific, medical, pharmaceutical or technical background
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry’s legal rules and guidelines is an asset
- Excellent eye for linguistic quality control
- Experience in an agency or similar fast-paced, client-driven, collaborative workplace with multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines
Skills
- Proofreading
- Editing
- Linguistic quality control
- Brand style guide management
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Project management software
- Proofreading software
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $45,000—$95,000 CAD
About the Company
- Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment.
- We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint.
- Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers.
- We operate, innovate, and create at the intersection of talent and capabilities across Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting.
- We have 131 offices in 93 countries, bringing world-class creative solutions for clients.
Equal Opportunity
- Ogilvy Health Canada employees are encouraged to bring their ideas, experiences and perspectives, gleaned from their varied backgrounds, to the workplace.
- We strive to create an environment in which all employees can feel comfortable to contribute to their fullest potential without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.