[Hiring] Child & Adolescent Mental Health AI Safety Advisor @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for US-based child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and mental health researchers with expertise in youth mental health, suicide prevention, self-harm assessment, digital mental health, or evidence-based therapy. This role supports an AI safety research initiative focused on evaluating how companion chatbots respond to adolescents experiencing mental health challenges. Selected professionals will:

• Develop clinically realistic case scenarios
• Help establish evaluation standards
• Review AI-generated conversations
• Provide expert guidance across suicide risk, therapeutic boundaries, emotional dependency, and developmentally appropriate support

Key Responsibilities

• Adolescent Mental Health Scenario Development
  • Author fictionalised case scenarios informed by real-world child and adolescent mental health practice
  • Develop scenarios involving suicide risk, self-harm, emotional distress, therapeutic guidance, and dependency concerns
  • Ensure cases reflect realistic developmental, family, social, and clinical contexts
  • Define relevant risk indicators, safeguarding considerations, and expected response principles
• Clinical & Developmental Review
  • Review scenarios for clinical realism, developmental appropriateness, and ethical quality
  • Assess whether adolescent language, behaviour, symptoms, and circumstances are represented accurately
  • Identify missing risk factors, unrealistic assumptions, and potentially misleading clinical framing
  • Apply child and adolescent mental health expertise across complex and sensitive cases
• AI Conversation Evaluation
  • Review selected AI-generated conversations involving fictional adolescent users
  • Assess risk recognition, response quality, emotional tone, escalation, and crisis-referral decisions
  • Evaluate whether chatbot responses maintain appropriate therapeutic and relational boundaries
  • Identify responses that may reinforce emotional dependency, discourage trusted relationships, or overstate the system's capabilities
  • Provide structured clinical judgments that support evaluation-system calibration
• Rubric Development & Safety Guidance
  • Help develop and refine clinician-informed scoring rubrics for chatbot responses
  • Define evaluation criteria covering safety, empathy, developmental appropriateness, clinical accuracy, and escalation
  • Advise on best practices for assessing suicide and self-harm responses, therapeutic impersonation, and parasocial attachment
  • Collaborate with researchers to maintain consistent standards across scenarios and evaluation workflows

Qualifications

• Substantial clinical or research experience focused on children and adolescents
• Expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical child psychology, suicide prevention, self-harm assessment, or digital mental health
• Experience with evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy or dialectical behaviour therapy
• Strong understanding of risk recognition, safety planning, crisis referral, and safeguarding
• Excellent written communication and the ability to provide structured clinical feedback
• Comfort reviewing fictional clinical cases and AI-generated mental health conversations
• Availability to contribute approximately 10–15 hours per week
• Current residence in the United States

Educational Background

• An MD, DO, PhD, PsyD, or equivalent advanced qualification in psychiatry, psychology, or a related mental health field is required
• Specialist training in child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical child psychology, suicidology, or digital mental health is highly relevant
• Advanced research experience in youth mental health, crisis intervention, or therapeutic technologies may also be considered
• Active clinical, academic, research, or advisory experience may strengthen an application

Nice to Have

• Experience conducting suicide-risk assessments or crisis interventions
• Published or academic research in adolescent mental health, suicide prevention, digital therapeutics, or conversational technologies
• Experience developing clinical guidelines, assessment frameworks, educational materials, or quality standards
• Prior work involving AI, digital health platforms, mental health products, or chatbot evaluation
• Experience supervising trainees or participating in multidisciplinary clinical teams
• Familiarity with clinical benchmarking, structured review, safety evaluation, or automated assessment systems

Why This Opportunity

• Apply specialist mental health expertise to an important AI safety initiative
• Help establish clinically grounded standards for AI systems used by adolescents
• Influence how conversational technologies respond to suicide risk, emotional distress, and dependency concerns
• Collaborate with researchers developing rigorous evaluation methods for AI companion chatbots
• Participate in flexible remote work with highly competitive hourly compensation

Contract Details

• Independent contractor role
• Fully remote with flexible scheduling
• Available to professionals based in the United States
• Expected commitment of approximately 10–15 hours per week
• Competitive rates between $75–$145 per hour depending on qualifications, expertise, and project scope
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
• Work may include scenario development, clinical review, rubric design, conversation evaluation, and calibration activities
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or adjusted depending on scope and performance
• Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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