Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialist

$45–95/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Medical

micro1 is recruiting child protection clinicians to review adolescent case scenarios and write defensible safeguarding guidance that will be used to train and evaluate AI systems on sexual safety and exploitation risk. Work is remote, contractor-based, and paid in an observed band of $45–95/hr, with first tasks typically expected within 24–48 hours of onboarding.

What the work involves

You will be handed adolescent case vignettes — often deliberately ambiguous — and asked to do what you already do in practice: identify indicators of grooming, coercion, and exploitation, weigh developmental stage, capacity and consent, and state what should happen next and how fast. The deliverable is written: a clear, defensible safeguarding assessment that a non-specialist could act on, with the framework you applied and the escalation or mandatory-reporting threshold made explicit. Some tasks ask you to grade or correct model-generated guidance rather than write from scratch, flagging where an answer is confidently wrong, under-escalates, or misses a CSE/CSA indicator buried in the detail.

Because the material concerns sexual harm to minors, expect content that is clinically explicit in the way case files are. There is no direct contact with children or families and no live casework — everything is scenario-based — but the subject matter is sustained and heavy, and pacing your own volume matters.

What the platform screens for

Recency and caseload. Current or recent (within roughly two years) adolescent safeguarding practice, and an active clinical licence or registration in good standing.
Framework fluency under follow-up. Naming a risk-assessment tool is not enough; screeners probe how you applied it, where it fails, and how you handled disagreement with a multi-agency partner.
Written register. Guidance must read as research-grade English — native fluency or IELTS 7.5+/writing 7.0, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2 or equivalent — and must be legible to a non-specialist without losing clinical precision.
Calibration. Willingness to say "insufficient information to escalate" and to defend a judgment against peer standards, rather than reflexively maximising or minimising risk.

Logistics

Remote, asynchronous, contractor engagement. No prior AI or annotation experience is required — the domain knowledge is the point. Roles are typically filled within 48 hours and selected experts are expected to begin tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding, so applying while genuinely available matters more than it would on a slower board. Hours are flexible and project-dependent; the $45–95/hr range reflects rates observed on this listing, varying with specialty, jurisdictional expertise, and task complexity, and is not a guarantee.

What they look for

Post-qualification experience in child safeguarding, child protection, or adolescent clinical practice (3–5+ years)
CSE/CSA risk assessment using recognised safeguarding frameworks
Active clinical licence or professional registration in good standing
Mandatory-reporting and escalation-pathway knowledge for your jurisdiction
Trauma-informed assessment and clinical documentation
Research-grade written English (native or IELTS 7.5+ / TOEFL 100+ / Cambridge C1–C2)

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you hold an active clinical licence or professional registration in good standing?
Clinical licence · required
Do you have three or more years of post-qualification experience in child safeguarding, adolescent protection, or a related clinical role?
Safeguarding experience · required
Have you held an adolescent caseload or active safeguarding practice within the last two years?
Recent caseload · preferred
Have you personally conducted CSE or CSA risk assessments and made or recommended mandatory-reporting decisions?
CSE/CSA assessment · required
Are you a native English writer or do you hold IELTS 7.5+ (writing 7.0+), TOEFL 100+, or Cambridge C1–C2 or equivalent?
Written English · required
Can you begin your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding?
Immediate availability · preferred

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Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether your safeguarding practice is genuinely recent and whether you personally held decision authority rather than contributing to someone else's assessment.
A strong answer: Name the setting and period, give an approximate case volume, and be explicit about what you decided versus advised on — e.g. authoring strategy-meeting recommendations, chairing, or signing off referrals.
Where people lose it: Describing a team's work in the first-person plural so the screener cannot tell whether you assessed cases or attended meetings about them; recency vagueness like 'I've worked in this area for years' also reads as a gap being papered over.

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