[Hiring] Child & Youth Abuse Trauma Specialist @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced mental health professionals with deep expertise in child and youth abuse, trauma-informed care, clinical assessment, and ethical decision-making to contribute to an advanced AI training project focused on supporting vulnerable young populations. Selected professionals will apply specialist clinical expertise to case-based scenarios, model-generated mental health guidance, and trauma-informed content related to young abuse survivors. The work focuses on ensuring that AI-generated outputs reflect current clinical standards, ethical principles, appropriate sensitivity, and nuanced understanding of the needs of vulnerable youth. No prior experience in AI is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Trauma-Informed Case Analysis
  • Analyse and contribute to case-based scenarios reflecting the complexities of child and youth abuse victimisation.
  • Apply trauma-informed clinical frameworks when reviewing sensitive mental health scenarios.
  • Assess the psychological, behavioural, and contextual factors relevant to young abuse survivors.
  • Identify important clinical nuances, risks, and safeguarding considerations within case materials.
  • Ensure scenarios appropriately reflect real-world complexity and vulnerability.
• AI-Generated Mental Health Evaluation
  • Review and assess model-generated mental health guidance related to youth abuse cases.
  • Identify clinical inaccuracies, ethical concerns, oversimplifications, or inappropriate recommendations.
  • Evaluate whether generated responses reflect appropriate trauma-informed principles.
  • Provide expert feedback on content accuracy, safety, sensitivity, and relevance.
  • Help distinguish clinically responsible guidance from content that may be incomplete or unsuitable.
• Trauma-Informed Content Development
  • Develop and curate content outlining best practices for supporting young abuse survivors.
  • Contribute clinical guidance reflecting current trauma-informed approaches and standards of care.
  • Help structure high-quality examples and reference materials for AI training workflows.
  • Document recommendations designed to improve system sensitivity and clinical usefulness.
  • Support development of content that reflects appropriate ethical and safeguarding considerations.
• Clinical Quality & Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
  • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure project deliverables reflect current mental health standards.
  • Participate in iterative review cycles to refine training data and improve content quality.
  • Provide detailed recommendations grounded in specialist clinical experience.
  • Help identify recurring gaps or weaknesses across AI-generated responses.
  • Maintain rigorous standards around privacy, confidentiality, ethics, and professional judgement.

Qualifications

• Completed M.D., Ph.D. in Psychology, or Ph.D. in Social Work.
• Extensive clinical experience working with children or young people who are survivors of abuse.
• Primary or substantial professional focus on youth abuse, trauma, or closely related clinical work.
• Demonstrated expertise in trauma-informed care and interventions for young survivors.
• Strong clinical assessment and case-analysis skills.
• Active engagement in clinical work involving vulnerable youth or abuse-related cases.
• Strong understanding of ethical decision-making, safeguarding, privacy, and confidentiality.
• Ability to identify subtle clinical inaccuracies, risks, and inappropriate guidance.
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to provide precise, constructive feedback.
• Comfortable collaborating across clinical, research, technical, or interdisciplinary teams.
• No prior experience in AI research or model training is required.

Engagement Details

• Part-time independent contractor engagement.
• Fully remote.
• Compensation: $100–$200/hour.
• Work will involve trauma-informed case analysis, AI-generated mental health content review, clinical feedback, content development, and iterative quality evaluation.
• Deep professional experience working with young abuse survivors is important for this engagement.
• No prior experience in AI is required.
• Project scope, workload, timing, and duration may evolve depending on project requirements.
• Work must be completed in accordance with appropriate ethical, privacy, confidentiality, and safeguarding standards.