Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialist

About The Role

We are seeking Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialists to contribute to a project focused on assessing sexual safety and exploitation risk in adolescent scenarios. In this role, you will apply your clinical and safeguarding expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will contribute high-quality, real-world professional judgment that helps models learn, reason, and perform more effectively. No prior AI experience is required. Your domain expertise is what matters.

What You'll Do

• Review complex adolescent cases and assess sexual safety, child sexual exploitation (CSE), and child sexual abuse (CSA) risks.
• Produce clear, defensible written safeguarding guidance suitable for non-specialists.
• Apply recognised risk-assessment and safeguarding frameworks to evaluate urgency and appropriate interventions.
• Identify indicators of grooming, coercion, and exploitation within nuanced case details.
• Recommend protective actions and appropriate escalation pathways, including when mandatory reporting is warranted.
• Apply a trauma-informed approach, considering developmental factors, capacity, and consent in each assessment.
• Benchmark clinical judgments against peer standards and established protocols to support accurate and reliable guidance.

Required Skills

• Clinical reasoning
• Clinical risk assessment
• Severity staging
• Intervention judgment
• Adolescent/child safeguarding
• Exploitation risk detection
• Safeguarding escalation
• Consent & developmental judgment

Preferred Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of post-qualification experience in child safeguarding, adolescent protection, or relevant clinical roles.
• Specialty background in child protection, forensic child/adolescent psychiatry or psychology, or paediatric medicine with a safeguarding remit.
• Active clinical license or registration in good standing.
• Current or recent adolescent caseload or safeguarding practice within the last two years.
• Demonstrated expertise in CSE/CSA risk assessment and mandatory-reporting requirements.
• Strong skills in trauma-informed practice and documentation.
• Exceptional written communication in research-grade English: native English, IELTS 7.5+ with writing 7.0+, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2, or equivalent.
• Experience in a designated safeguarding or expert-witness capacity, and familiarity with ACEs and trauma frameworks, is a plus.

Start Timeline & Availability

Roles are typically filled within 48 hours. Selected experts should be ready to begin their first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.