Proofreader

Ogilvy Health Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ogilvy Health Canada is seeking a bilingual proofreader fluent in French and English to ensure linguistic accuracy across diverse healthcare projects. You will conduct thorough quality control, align content with brand styles, and collaborate with writers, designers, and account teams to maintain high standards under tight deadlines.

The role requires 3–5 years in linguistic quality control, a background in scientific/medical/technical fields, and experience with proofreading software.

Qualifications

• Full professional proficiency in French and English; proven proofreading/editing in both languages.
• 3–5 years of linguistic quality control experience: proofreading, copy editing, or related.
• Scientific, medical, pharmaceutical, or technical background.

Responsibilities

• Read and evaluate written text for grammar and typographic errors.
• Ensure content aligns with brand style guides and project requirements.
• Coordinate with writers, designers and account teams to maintain consistency and accuracy.
• Manage multiple deadlines and prioritize workload under pressure.
• Use proofreading software to perform initial checks before detailed reviews.

Skills

Bilingual (French & English)

Linguistic quality control experience

Education

Scientific/medical/technical background

Tools

Proofreading software

Job description

Bilingual Proofreader (French and English)

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences' 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 across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity-operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities- Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to bring forth world-class creative solutions for our clients.

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.

What You'll Do

• Read and evaluate written text for grammatical and typographical error
• Compare layouts against original copy to identify errors or omissions
• Maintain brand-specific stylistics, and aiming for internal project consistency as well as consistency across all projects for a specific brand
• Own an assigned brand style guide, as well as investigating and researching 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 opening 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

What You'll Need

• 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
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry's legal rules and guidelines, an asset
• Excellent eye for linguistic quality control
• Experience in an agency or any other similar workplace: fast-paced, client-driven, collaborative with multiple stakeholders, with sometimes tight deadlines and turnarounds requested, etc.

How We'll Support You

Ogilvy Health celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.

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.

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.

Salary Range

$45,000 - $95,000 CAD