Location: Moline, Illinois
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $30 - 35 per hour
We are seeking a highly organized and meticulous Creative Proofreader to join our dynamic marketing team. In this role, you will be the guardian of our brand's quality standards, collaborating closely with writers, designers, and content leads to produce flawless digital, video, and print advertising.
Your primary responsibility will be to manage our robust, multi-round proofing process from start to finish. This includes meticulously proofreading materials for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, while ensuring all stakeholder feedback is accurately implemented. As a central coordinator, you will liaise between the creative team and stakeholders, communicating statuses, facilitating changes, and ensuring deadlines are met in a fast-paced environment that handles a high volume of projects.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates closely with creative and content leads, writers, and designers to ensure high-quality digital, video, and print advertising that supports marketing objectives.
- Proofreads marketing and advertising materials according to the Style Guide to ensure the quality of written content.
- Identifies and corrects errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, as well as verifies that stakeholder-requested changes have been completed accurately.
- Coordinates our robust four-round proofing process (two rounds of internal review + two rounds of stakeholder review).
- Sends proofs to stakeholders for review and approval.
- Facilitates simple stakeholder-requested changes and coordinates with creative and content leads on more complex changes.
- Monitors the statuses of proofs and communicates what actions are ready to be taken by the creative team.
- Follows up with stakeholders on proofs to ensure projects stay on track.
- Completes quality reviews on time and with attention to detail.
- Serves as the point of contact for onboarding new people into the creative team and coaches existing team members on quality standards.
Top Must Haves:
- Attention to detail, including comparing proof versions to ensure copy changes have been made accurately.
- Ability to stay organized and focused on deadlines in a fast-paced environment. As a point of reference, we sent 1,700 creative proofs for review in the last 12 months, and they contained over 6,000 comments from stakeholders that had to be facilitated.
- Be a self-starter who can take direction and stay motivated to execute under minimal supervision.
- Make sound decisions based on a variety of data points.
- Solid communication skills with the ability to coordinate with teammates and stakeholders to resolve impediments and seek out missing information.
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Experience using project management software to manage work.
- Speak the language of the various applications of production, including print and digital advertising, marketing, photography, illustration, and video production.
Qualifications:
- 7-10 years of copyediting or proofreading experience in communications, marketing or advertising.
- Speak the language of the various applications of production, including print and digital advertising, marketing, photography, illustration, and video production.
- Solid communication skills. You'll need to coordinate with teammates and stakeholders to resolve impediments and seek out missing information.
- Multitask. You'll need to actively manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. We use project management software, but there's no substitute for personal responsibility.
- Be a quick learner. Get up to speed quickly on the industry, our solutions and products, and various software tools for online project management, team communication, etc.
- Work well as part of a team yet remain focused on individual responsibilities.
JOBID: JN -102025-113202
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At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.