What the work involves

You work in the artifacts that public-sector jobs actually run on — Word documents, Excel workbooks, and slide decks — rather than chat transcripts. A typical task gives you a realistic agency scenario (a deputy administrator needs a two-page decision memo before a Thursday principals meeting; a grants office needs a compliance package narrative tied to 2 CFR 200; a budget shop needs an appropriations request narrative that survives passback) and asks you either to produce the reference artifact yourself or to judge a model's attempt against it. Evaluation work means marking where the output goes wrong and saying why in terms a non-specialist reviewer can act on: the memo buries the recommendation, the comment-response summary collapses distinct commenter positions that the agency is legally obliged to address separately, the spreadsheet hardcodes a figure that should be a formula.

What the platform screens for

Ethos runs an AI voice screen. It is looking for evidence you personally owned these documents rather than reviewed them from a distance — which office you sat in, who the audience was, what the clearance chain looked like, what got sent back and why. Expect follow-ups that go one level deeper than your first answer: if you say you handled rulemaking comments, expect a question about how you categorized near-duplicate comments or what a substantive comment obliges the agency to do. Generic familiarity with "government writing" reads clearly and screens out. Craft matters too — the lab cares whether you can build a clean workbook and a slide that carries one idea, not just whether you can write prose.

Logistics

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; you pick your hours.
  • Flexible commitment, typically 5–20 hours per week, with room for more.
  • Pay observed at $70/hour for this listing; rates are set by the platform and can vary by task type and batch, and are not guaranteed.
  • Work is delivered through the platform's task interface; tasks are batched, so volume fluctuates week to week.

Unclassified, non-sensitive work only — you are writing realistic artifacts from professional knowledge, not reproducing anything from a former employer's systems.