Proofreader
Fortune 500 Retail/Health company
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid; 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Duration: 2-month contract (potential for extension)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Pay rate: $30-$35/hr
Summary:
Responsible for proofreading (spelling, grammar, punctuation) all creative assets (advertising/promotion/instore): Print, Digital, Email, Video.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for checking all marketing materials of spelling, grammar, punctuation, point size, text style, accuracy, spacing and formatting are correct and consistent.
- Ensures style and branding guidelines are adhered to.
- Proactively researches all copy, questioning the slightest detail that could potentially be misunderstood by the consumer audience.
- Ensures all necessary information and legal disclaimers are present and correct.
- Demonstrates concern for the clients’ ad content and seeks to understand the message behind the verbiage. Questions anything that may not be clear or apparent to the intended consumer.
- Works within our creative management system(s) (Workfront).
- Conducts proofreading with online, digital and video assests and annotates proofreading comments.
- Utilizes approval’s system (formerly ProofHQ) for reading and annotating work when appropriate.
Requirements:
- Experience communicating both verbally (on phone, one-on-one, to groups) and in writing (emails, letters, reports, presentations) to various audiences (work group, team, company management, prospective acquisitions, external clients).
- Advanced level skill in Adobe software (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Experience speaking, reading and writing fluently in English.
- Advanced knowledge of language rules in English.
- Tolerant of both people and process keeping broader business goals in mind.
- Experience producing accurate and detail-oriented work.
- Able to handle pressure due to tight deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
- Minimum of 6+ years of experience in advertising/marketing proofreading.
- Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
- Experience translating from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English in marketing for a variety of marketing vehicles.
- Experience translating from English to Spanish and Spanish to English in print, broadcast, direct mail, Web and presentations.
- Able to independently interpret nuances of the English copy in order to write Spanish copy that captures the essence of the messaging and our company's tone of voice in a culturally appropriate manner for a variety of audiences.
- Experience speaking, reading and writing fluently in Spanish.
- Advanced knowledge of language rules in Spanish.