Medical Proof Reader

SUMMARY:
Well established marketing / advertising agency within the medical industry requires a Medical Proof reader / Medical Liaison.

POSITION INFO:
Matric is essential
Minimum of 3 years proof reading experience is essential
Medical Diploma / Degree is preferred
Veeva experience is highly beneficial
Medical understanding and knowledge would secure

The ability to read and understand clinical trials is a must
Attend client meetings and brainstorms when needed to understand the clients brief better
Prepare documents for studio prior to brainstorms, when instructed to do so, to assist studio in medical / disease entity explanations to give then a better understanding of the brief
Proof reading all agency materials from first layout to print proof to ensure style, consistency, clarity and readability, trademarks, registration information, referencing style and branding information are adhered to
Review all materials and checks for grammatical, spelling, typographical, capitalisation, syntax, layout and compositional and formatting errors
Check the layout matches the text and flow of supplied medical copy
Ensures illustrations and graphs are correctly captioned and referenced accordingly
Check all copy according to references / clinical trail supplied and ensure correct
Marks design layout with standard proofreading marks to notify Designers of necessary changes / type up changes that are copy intensive
Review changes from regulatory department (Clients RA department)
Liaise directly with Medical RA departments when changes are unclear in the best manner, to ensure that we are able to get changes in and out and loaded back to veeva / sent back to client for RA approval
Produces or works to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of citations and style of referencing
Proof reads against client’s regulatory requirements / checklists
If another proof reader is off / on leave, you need to fill this role and ensure that all jobs are checked timeously according to the traffic lists / manage your time with your own daily tasks
The artwork and the relevant clinical trials need to be loaded to our clients portal, so that their RA / compliance people can then check the artwork and approve the artwork
So you would need to ensure that all  reference numbers and copy is correct according to annotations on the clinical trials before loading work to veeva
Load artwork and references to veeva
Follow-up work on veeva and check for updates on artwork and send to client service to do briefs
Attention to detail is key

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