Job Title
Medical Data Annotation Specialist (Healthcare AI & Strategic Operations)

Job Summary
We are seeking a high-performing Medical Data Annotation Specialist for a full-time, one-year contract to support healthcare AI initiatives. In addition to delivering accurate medical annotations, this role requires the ability to adapt to evolving project needs, contribute process-level insights, and gradually take on strategic responsibilities such as quality improvement, workflow optimization, and subject-matter support. The role directly supports operational efficiency, scalability, and revenue growth.

Mode of Work: Full-time | 1-year contract

Shift: Night shift (8:00 PM 4:00 AM)

Location: Office-based (Kolkata)

Required Qualifications

- Degree in Nursing, Pharmacy, Medicine, or Social Work.
- Preferred 1 year of clinical experience.
- Strong ability to understand patient medical histories and clinical narratives.
- Excellent English reading comprehension and written communication skills.
- Strong computer literacy and comfort with annotation tools.
- Willingness to work night shifts (7:00 PM 3:00 AM).
- Comfortable working from the office in Night shift

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in medical billing, coding, or clinical documentation.
- Background in medical transcription.
- Exposure to clinical NLP, medical annotation, or AI-driven healthcare projects.
- Familiarity with EHR systems and structured clinical documentation.

Key Responsibilities
Core Annotation Responsibilities

- Annotate and label medical terms and clinical concepts from clinical notes, encounter summaries, and other healthcare documents.
- Extract and structure key patient information including diagnoses, medications, procedures, lab results, and medical history.
- Map medical concepts to standardized ontologies such as ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC, and RxNorm.
- Maintain high accuracy, consistency,



and productivity while meeting defined SLAs.

Strategic & Adaptive Responsibilities

- Identify recurring annotation challenges, ambiguities, or inefficiencies and proactively suggest improvements.
- Support quality audits, peer reviews, or pilot tasks when required.
- Adapt quickly to new annotation frameworks, tools, and client-specific requirements.
- Contribute to process documentation, guideline clarifications, and best practices.
- Collaborate closely with QA, team leads, and project managers to support scaling and delivery excellence.
- Demonstrate readiness to take on SME, quality, or workflow-support roles based on performance.

Core Skills & Competencies
Operational & Technical

- High attention to detail and analytical thinking
- Ability to balance speed, accuracy, and consistency
- Strong understanding of clinical terminology

Social & Strategic

- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder communication skills
- Ability to receive, interpret, and apply feedback effectively
- Problem-solving mindset with a process-improvement orientation
- Willingness to step beyond assigned tasks when needed
- Accountability, ownership, and adaptability

Strategic Growth Path (Internal)
High-performing candidates may progress into:

- Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Quality Analyst / Auditor
- Process Improvement or Training Support
- Client-specific strategic roles

Business Impact of the Role
This role supports:

- Reduced rework and higher dataset quality
- Improved delivery timelines
- Operational scalability
- Client satisfaction and revenue growth

Perks & Perks

- Exposure to innovative healthcare and AI companies
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, real-world healthcare datasets
- Clear growth pathway into strategic and quality-driven roles

If interested please fill up this google form and we will reach out to you as soon as possible:

- Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLN1STLYPNskJGfejaCsHUvcCsnxl6Yyk_bhpysoh2hi7FmA/viewform

📌 Medical Data Annotation Specialist (Healthcare AI Operations) (Kolkata)
🏢 iMerit
📍 Kolkata