Remote | Pediatric Mental Health & AI Safety Consultant — $75–$145/hour

24-Mag • New York, NY

16h • Remote

About The Position

This is a specialized part-time consulting opportunity for child and adolescent mental health professionals experienced in clinical scenario development, suicide and self-harm assessment, digital mental health, therapeutic safety, and structured evaluation of conversational AI systems. This role supports a remote consulting project focused on developing clinically grounded benchmarks for evaluating how AI companion systems respond to adolescents experiencing mental health challenges. Selected professionals will apply their clinical or research expertise to create realistic fictional scenarios, assess AI-generated conversations, refine evaluation standards, and provide structured guidance across sensitive safety domains.

Requirements

• Substantial clinical or research expertise in child and adolescent mental health.
• An MD, DO, PhD, PsyD, or equivalent qualification in psychiatry, psychology, or a related mental health discipline.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, families, or youth-focused clinical populations.
• Expertise in suicide prevention, self-harm assessment, child psychiatry, clinical child psychology, or digital mental health.
• Familiarity with evidence-based approaches such as CBT, DBT, crisis intervention, or structured risk assessment.
• Strong written communication and the ability to provide clear, organised clinical feedback.
• Comfort reviewing fictional clinical material and AI-generated conversations.
• Availability to contribute approximately 10–15 hours per week.
• Current location in the United States.
• Advanced clinical or research training in psychiatry, psychology, counselling, behavioural health, public health, or a related discipline is highly relevant.
• Formal specialisation in child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical child psychology, or youth mental health is especially valuable.
• Postdoctoral, fellowship, residency, or supervised clinical training may support alignment with the project.
• Equivalent senior research expertise in adolescent mental health, suicide prevention, or digital therapeutics may also be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Experience conducting suicide risk assessments, safety planning, or crisis intervention.
• Published or academic research in adolescent mental health, self-harm, suicide prevention, or digital therapeutics.
• Experience developing clinical guidelines, assessment frameworks, training materials, or educational resources.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled mental health tools, digital health products, or conversational systems.
• Experience evaluating behavioural health products, clinical technologies, or patient-facing digital interventions.
• Background supervising trainees or contributing to multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Knowledge of ethical standards related to youth safety, confidentiality, dependency, and professional boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Author fictionalised adolescent mental health scenarios informed by real-world clinical or research experience.
• Develop cases involving suicide risk, self-harm, emotional distress, therapeutic guidance, dependency, and help-seeking behaviour.
• Ensure scenarios reflect appropriate developmental, cultural, ethical, and clinical considerations.
• Calibrate case complexity and expected responses against realistic child and adolescent mental health settings.
• Review scenarios for clinical accuracy, developmental appropriateness, and ethical quality.
• Identify unrealistic assumptions, unsafe framing, missing contextual factors, or inappropriate intervention pathways.
• Assess whether scenarios accurately reflect risk recognition, escalation, and referral considerations.
• Provide clear recommendations for improving clinical and safety relevance.
• Help develop and refine clinician-informed rubrics for assessing AI-generated responses.
• Define standards covering empathy, risk recognition, safety planning, crisis referral, and professional-care guidance.
• Evaluate criteria related to therapeutic impersonation, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and discouragement of clinical support.
• Assess risks involving anthropomorphism, emotional dependency, exclusivity, and disruption of trusted relationships.
• Review selected AI-generated conversations and provide structured expert judgments.
• Evaluate responses for clinical safety, developmental appropriateness, boundary management, and escalation quality.
• Identify subtle failures that may place vulnerable adolescent users at greater risk.
• Support calibration of automated evaluation systems through consistent clinical reasoning and documented feedback.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly compensation ($75–$145/hour depending on expertise).
• Flexible, remote work schedule.
• Opportunity to apply specialist clinical expertise to adolescent digital safety.
• Contribute to establishing rigorous standards for AI companion behavior evaluation.
• Collaborate with professionals developing evaluation and benchmarking systems.
• Weekly payments.
• Potential for project extension.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree