Bilingual Proofreader (French and English)

About This Role

As a bilingual Proofreader fluent in French and English, you will be crucial in maintaining the integrity and precision of all client communications. This involves conducting thorough linguistic quality control in both languages across diverse projects. The 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 all content is error-free, on-brand, and effectively conveys the intended message.

Responsibilities

• Read and evaluate written text for grammatical and typographical errors
• Compare layouts against original copy to identify errors or omissions
• Maintain brand-specific stylistics, aiming for internal project consistency as well as consistency across all projects for a specific brand
• Own an assigned brand style guide, and investigate and research stylistic questions as they arise
• Offer suggestions to owners of the content to ensure document structure and content are consistent, and to clarify intended meaning
• Communicate questions and corrections clearly to the intended stakeholder, and open dialogue for further discussion when necessary
• Align the intention of the writers and the art direction in order to provide a final quality check before the project is completed
• Collaborate to ensure that 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 the 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 various problems that may arise during the linguistic quality control step of a project
• Manage and prioritize workload in order to deliver within tight deadlines
• Work with integrity on all projects and be accountable for delivering on expectations
• Be open to feedback, and able to apply any brand-specific feedback to future projects
• Use a proofreading software within the established workflow, to run initial checks before performing a full read through and stylistic check
• Engage with assigned tasks and manage workload via a 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 some form of linguistic quality control: proofreading, copy editing, structural editing, stylistic editing, comparative editing, web editing, medical editing, etc.
• Scientific, medical, pharmaceutical or technical background