Proofreader - Malaysia

Integrity Asia; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Malaysia is seeking a Proofreader/Editor for their Quality Assurance department. The role involves ensuring high-quality language in documents, collaborating across departments, and providing training. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree and experience in editing. This full-time position offers opportunities for growth within a rapidly expanding company.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in editing/proofreading.
• High proficiency in English and Malay, both written and spoken.
• Minimum TOEFL iBT Score: 100; IELTS Score: 7.

Responsibilities

• Providing reviewed and edited reports (internal and external).
• Ensuring clarity, consistency, and credibility of reports.
• Conducting training and coaching for internal employees.

Skills

Integrity

Attention to Detail

Teamwork

Time Management

Deadline-oriented

Education

Bachelor's Degree in English

Bachelor's Degree in Journalism

Tools

MS Office

Google Workspace

ChatGPT

Job description

We are currently searching for a Proofreader/Editor in the Quality Assurance (QA) department.

Based in Petaling Jaya, your role will be to ensure that the highest quality of language is used in written documents issued by the company in terms of their technical, grammatical, and proper contextual accuracy. You will work across the whole company covering all departments and collaborating with colleagues at all levels. This is a full-time job with a permanent status.

Job Responsibilities

1. Providing reviewed and edited reports (internal and external)
2. Controlling the quality of reports and ensuring that they are clear, consistent, complete, and credible
3. Ensuring that the material and text are well written, grammatically correct, and contextually accurate
4. Reviewing to ensure that images and photos are correctly captioned and referred to in the right context
5. Correcting spelling, checking grammar and layout, ensuring content uses an appealing and imposing language style, and rewriting (copy-editing) when needed
6. Assessing external and internal reporting capabilities and the progress of employees
7. Coordinating with management to upgrade reporting capabilities
8. Checking that media searches are comprehensive
9. Translating documents from Malay to English, and vice versa
10. Providing and reviewing modules and procedures related to English report-writing skills and English conversation
11. Conducting training and coaching for internal employees

Job Requirements:

• High level of integrity and professionalism
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in English, Journalism, or other related fields
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role (editing/proofreading)
• High proficiency in English and Malay, both written and spoken
• Proficiency in the usage of MS Office and the Google Workspace
• Minimum TOEFL iBT Score: 100; TOEFL PBT Score: 550; IELTS Score: 7
• High level of attention to detail with excellent spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills
• Excellent team worker and time management
• Deadline-oriented
• Willing and able to extend working hours if needed
• Familiarity with ChatGPT and/or other proofreading/editing tools
• Preferably has experience in the fields of (academic or non-academic) research, content/report writing (media or publication), translation (provide portfolio of work if available)

If you meet these requirements and you are looking for a new, exciting opportunity within a successful, growing company, then this role is for you!

Integrity Malaysia is an equal-opportunity employer.

Integrity Malaysia (Jasa Integritas Malaysia Sdn Bhd) is a foreign investment company that has a proud history in Malaysia. Our business is to provide services related to the prevention, detection, and mitigation of fraud.

Our services include employment background screening, business research, compliance, whistleblowing systems, mystery shopping services, due diligence, process serving, research & market intelligence, asset tracing, skip tracing, claims research, brand protection, anti-counterfeiting, trademark research, and market surveys.

As a rapidly expanding company with a robust and diverse portfolio of services, Integrity Malaysia is in search of self-motivated and result-oriented individuals with high integrity and strong qualifications — people who enjoy the challenge to grow and succeed.

For more information, please see our website: www.integrity-asia.com