French Editor

Overview

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French Editor
Full Time Permanent
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hybrid role
1 vacancy

As the French Editor, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the quality and integrity of MCC’s French-language examination content and communications. Reporting to the Team Leader, Communications, you’ll edit and coordinate the development of French exam materials, supporting documentation, and training resources to meet established standards, while keeping quality, consistency, and timelines front of mind. You’ll serve as the central point of contact for French editorial activities, working closely with internal teams to support the creation of clear, accurate, and high-quality content. You’ll provide expert linguistic review, translation, and editorial guidance, ensuring strong alignment between English and French materials through careful comparative editing. In addition to exam-related content, you’ll contribute to broader communications initiatives, helping ensure MCC’s French-language communications are polished, consistent, and effective.

What You’ll Do

• Act as one of the central intake and coordination points for editorial and translation requests.
• Assess scope, complexity, priorities, and deadlines.
• Maintain and update editorial production schedules.
• Participate in team, editorial, assessment, and departmental meetings, as well as projects undertaken by or impacting ER&C and other exam-related activities.
• Play an active role in production scheduling discussions, advising on feasibility, risks, and timelines.
• Perform comparative edits of exam content, related documents and training materials by comparing the English source to the French version.
• Identify inconsistencies, omissions and inaccuracies, and ensure alignment with approved style, terminology, and intent.
• Provide stylistic and structural edits of materials in French to improve clarity, coherence, flow, and precision.
• Correct grammatical, punctuation, spelling, and usage errors while ensuring consistency across exam and communications materials.
• Translate selected exam content and related documentation from English to French, based on operational needs, complexity, or risk level.
• Review and validate externally translated materials to ensure compliance with editorial standards.
• Proofread materials in French.
• Compare final draft with version in layout to identify inconsistencies.

Experience

• 3-5 years’ experience with comparative editing, copy editing and proofreading a variety of documentation in French, preferably in exam-based, regulated, or high-stakes content environments.
• Experience evaluating the quality of translations or revisions to provide recommendations and maintain standards.
• Experience revising the work of external service providers to maintain standards (e.g., freelance editors and translators).
• Experience providing writing and editing advice to colleagues, senior staff members and management.
• Experience coordinating editorial workflows or advising clients without formal supervisory authority.
• Experience with revising and translating medical or health texts or other complex scientific or technical documents translated from English to French is preferred.

Technical Skills

• Excellent knowledge of the recognized principles and practices in translation and editing, including appropriate usages of recently introduced artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
• In-depth knowledge of the rules of both English and French languages, standards of style and grammar.
• Knowledge of terminological research and experience using a variety of language reference materials and tools.
• Experience working with project management, content management, and editorial tracking platforms (e.g., Teamwork, WordPress, risr/ or similar systems).
• Strong computer skills and skills working in Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for tracking, reporting, and managing editorial workflows.
• Experience with editorial workflows, version control, and tracking tools in multi-interested party environments.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new tools and platforms in a complex production environment.
• Knowledge of medical terminology or medical editing is an asset.

Competencies

• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, negotiate and meet deadlines while multi-tasking and managing shifting priorities.
• Demonstrated awareness of equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations and their impact on high-stakes assessment content.
• Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development inclusive language and bias-aware editorial practices.
• Experience working in a team environment, with demonstrated collaboration and personal leadership skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree specializing in translation (English to French) or a related field, such as French literature or linguistics
• Degree, diploma or an equivalent specializing in education or health professions
• A certified editor or a certified comparative editor from Editors Canada would be considered an asset.

Language

• Fully bilingual (English/French) with the ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively in both languages.

The perks

• A defined benefit pension plan.
• A complete benefit package your first day on the job.
• Three weeks' vacation right off the bat.
• A company paid holiday closure in December - our gift to you!
• A 35-hour work week.
• Compressed and telework programs.
• Free onsite parking - any day, any time.
• Free virtual Mobility and Strength & Conditioning classes.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

The MCC is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace at all levels of its organization. Our team fosters belonging by welcoming and valuing people with diverse backgrounds and incorporating their experiences and perspectives into our work.

AI-based tools from third-party platforms may be used to support application screening and candidate matching. Human recruiters review all applications and make final hiring decisions.

Accommodations can be provided at all stages of the hiring process; we ask applicants to make their needs known in advance.

Please note that only those invited for an interview will be contacted.