Higher Education Expert

Role Overview

• Mercor is seeking senior higher education professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large university and higher education institution contexts.

• The workflows are calibrated to the academic complexity, stakeholder diversity, and institutional stakes of large research universities and higher education systems.

• Contributors design higher education scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior faculty and university administrators think.

Key Responsibilities

• Construct higher education scenarios spanning curriculum and program design, multi-stakeholder faculty senate or accreditation review, and complex institutional budget or enrollment planning cycles.

• Build education tasks across academic program development, student affairs and retention, research administration and grant compliance, faculty governance, and institutional advancement/fundraising.

• Develop higher-ed operations scenarios involving tools such as Banner/Workday Student, Canvas/Blackboard, CRM platforms for admissions and advancement, and research administration systems (Cayuse, InfoEd).

• Apply higher education frameworks (accreditation standards, shared governance models, learning outcomes assessment, enrollment management strategy) and produce reference academic plans, accreditation documentation, and administrator/board-level communications.

• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic higher education judgment from generic academic or policy-manual recall.

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years working as faculty, an academic administrator, or in a senior operational role at a college, university, or higher education system.

• Direct ownership of academic programs, enrollment/retention initiatives, research administration, or institutional strategic priorities.

• Fluency in higher education tooling and frameworks, plus understanding of how university budgets, accreditation compliance, and shared governance actually work.

• Prior rubric, curriculum-design, or faculty-training content authorship is a plus.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.