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24-Mag•New York, NY

1d•Remote

About The Position

This is a fully remote, independent contractor consulting opportunity for experienced child and adolescent safeguarding professionals contributing to an advanced AI training and clinical evaluation project. The specialist will review complex adolescent scenarios involving sexual safety and exploitation risk, prepare structured safeguarding assessments, identify indicators of grooming or coercion, and recommend proportionate protective actions and escalation pathways. The role requires substantial child-protection experience, strong professional judgement, and the ability to explain nuanced safeguarding decisions clearly to non-specialist audiences. Prior experience in AI is not required. Work includes adolescent safeguarding assessment, exploitation-risk detection, severity staging, escalation judgement, consent and developmental analysis, and structured written guidance. Project scope, workload, case complexity, and evaluation standards may evolve with project requirements. Selected professionals should be prepared to begin their first tasks within approximately 24–48 hours of completing onboarding. Work must not use confidential or proprietary information belonging to an employer, client, institution, healthcare organisation, patient, or other third party. The opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC, which connects experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

Requirements

3–5+ years of post-qualification experience in child safeguarding, adolescent protection, or a closely related clinical role.
Specialist background in child protection, forensic child or adolescent psychiatry or psychology, paediatric medicine with a safeguarding remit, or a comparable discipline.
Active clinical licence or professional registration in good standing.
Current or recent safeguarding practice or adolescent caseload within approximately the past two years.
Demonstrated expertise in CSE and CSA risk assessment.
Strong understanding of mandatory-reporting requirements.
Advanced skills in trauma-informed practice and safeguarding documentation.
Strong ability to assess consent, developmental capacity, coercion, and exploitation risk.
Exceptional written English and ability to communicate complex safeguarding reasoning clearly.
Strong recent experience in child or adolescent safeguarding.
Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to an employer, client, institution, healthcare organisation, patient, or other third party.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a designated safeguarding role or expert-witness capacity.
Familiarity with ACEs and trauma frameworks.

Responsibilities

Review complex adolescent cases involving sexual safety and exploitation concerns.
Assess potential child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child sexual abuse (CSA) risks.
Identify indicators of grooming, coercion, exploitation, manipulation, or unsafe power dynamics.
Distinguish lower-level concerns and emerging risks from situations requiring urgent intervention.
Produce structured and defensible written safeguarding assessments.
Apply recognised safeguarding and risk-assessment frameworks to determine urgency and severity.
Recommend appropriate protective actions and escalation pathways.
Identify circumstances in which mandatory reporting or formal safeguarding intervention may be required.
Balance immediate safety concerns with broader contextual and developmental considerations.
Explain escalation decisions clearly and proportionately.
Evaluate consent, developmental capacity, vulnerability, and contextual factors within adolescent scenarios.
Consider age, maturity, coercion, dependency, and power imbalance when assessing risk.
Apply developmentally appropriate judgement to complex or ambiguous situations.
Distinguish apparent consent from situations involving exploitation, manipulation, or compromised capacity.
Integrate consent and developmental factors into safeguarding recommendations.
Apply trauma-informed principles when reviewing case material and developing recommendations.
Consider adverse childhood experiences, trauma history, and safeguarding context where relevant.
Provide clear guidance that avoids stigmatising or overly simplistic interpretations.
Document reasoning to support practical action by non-specialist users while maintaining sensitivity and clinical and safeguarding precision.
Benchmark safeguarding judgements against established protocols and peer standards.
Review recommendations for consistency, defensibility, and alignment with recognised safeguarding practice.
Identify gaps, ambiguities, or missing information that materially affect risk interpretation.
Incorporate feedback and evolving project standards into subsequent assessments.
Maintain high standards of written accuracy and professional documentation.