Translations Clinical Quality Auditor - Japan
Date: Aug 13, 2025
Location: Tokyo, JP, 107-0052
Company: International SOS
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Perform Auditing (aka Language Quality Assurance) of translations completed by translation vendors. This involves reviewing samples of translated medical reports for accuracy and completeness with focus on Clinical Quality, completing the LQA template with detailed feedback, identifying error categories, scoring the sample translations, and providing the feedback to the translation vendor.
• As part of the Translations Quality Assurance and Quality Monitoring program, Proofread and Edit select completed translations of medical documents delivered by the translation vendors.
• Monitor translation vendor’s quality performance and trends and collaborate with the Translations Vendor Manager to ensure that the translation vendors meet or exceed quality targets. Work with translation vendor partners to drive root-cause analysis when needed, improvement action plans, and continuous quality improvement. Identify and recommend improvements in process to minimize or remove errors.
• Work with the Quality Management team as needed to assist with investigating potential quality incident reported by the client for the translation deliverables.
• Manage glossaries of medical terminology from Japanese into US English. Share translated glossaries with translation vendors and ensure consistent utilization of translated glossary by the translation vendor via the Auditing and Review processes.
• Manage Linguistic Style Guides for translation vendor to follow. Ensure compliance with style guide instructions via the Auditing and Reviewing processes.
• Translate medical documents from Japan to US English
Requirements:
- Native Fluency in both Japanese and English languages to enable translations from one language to another. .
- Expertise in medical translations (mostly translation of medical records in all medical specialties)
- Familiarity with CAT tools such as Trados and OCR (a plus)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
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