Adolescent Safeguarding Risk Specialist

OpenTrain AI; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 62,000 - 131,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contractor opportunity

Part-time workload 20+ hours/week

English-language work

Job summary

OpenTrain AI is seeking an Adolescent Safeguarding and Exploitation Risk Specialist for AI training work. This remote, part-time contractor role focuses on Child Safeguarding Risk Assessment with 20+ hours weekly and an hourly pay range of $45-$95.

Apply your safeguarding expertise to review cases and provide clear assessments for diverse audiences. You will work with real-world safeguarding knowledge, apply recognised frameworks, and ensure documentation is defensible and trauma-informed.

Qualifications

• CSE/CSA risk assessment expertise required and post-qualification safeguarding experience.
• Active clinical license or professional registration in good standing.
• Experience applying safeguarding frameworks and trauma-informed judgment.
• Strong written English with defensible documentation.

Responsibilities

• Review adolescent cases involving sexual safety and exploitation risks with careful reasoning.
• Benchmark assessments against peer standards and established protocols.
• Explain when mandatory reporting may be warranted and select protective actions.
• Produce clear, defensible guidance for non-specialists grounded in safeguarding practice.

Skills

CSE/CSA risk-assessment

Grooming indicators recognition

Trauma-informed practice

Strong written English

Education

Active clinical license or professional registration

Job description

About OpenTrain

OpenTrain is the #1 platform for finding and building careers in AI training and data labeling. We connect skilled professionals with projects where human expertise helps improve how artificial intelligence understands, evaluates, and responds to complex information.

As an OpenTrain contractor, you can build a credible AI training portfolio while applying your professional knowledge to cutting-edge systems. Creating an OpenTrain account is free, and candidates can apply in minutes.

About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building modern artificial intelligence. Specialists review examples, assess model outputs, and provide structured written feedback so AI systems can learn from accurate, careful, and context-aware human judgment.

This project applies safeguarding expertise to written case assessment. Your work can help AI systems handle sensitive adolescent protection scenarios with greater clarity, consistency, and awareness of risk.

The Role

OpenTrain is seeking an Adolescent Safeguarding and Exploitation Risk Specialist for AI training work focused on Child Safeguarding Risk Assessment. You will use real-world safeguarding knowledge, written risk-assessment guidance, and recognised professional frameworks to produce clear, defensible assessments for non-specialist audiences.

This is a remote, part-time contractor opportunity requiring 20 or more hours per week. The listed compensation range is $45 to $95 USD per hour, with workload, scheduling, and final project terms determined by the engagement.

• Remote contractor opportunity
• Part-time workload of 20+ hours per week
• Compensation range of $45-$95 USD per hour
• English-language work
• Prior AI training experience is not required

What You'll Do

You will review complex adolescent cases involving sexual safety, child sexual exploitation, and abuse risks. Your written work must be carefully reasoned, research-grade, and grounded in applicable safeguarding practice.

You will also benchmark assessments against peer standards and established protocols while applying trauma-informed judgment to adolescent development, capacity, and consent.

• Assess urgency, intervention options, escalation pathways, and protective actions.
• Identify indicators of grooming, coercion, child sexual exploitation, and abuse.
• Explain when mandatory reporting may be warranted.
• Apply recognised safeguarding and risk-assessment frameworks consistently.
• Write clear, defensible guidance that non-specialists can understand.
• Evaluate cases using trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate judgment.
• Benchmark assessments against peer standards and established protocols.

Requirements

Relevant professional, academic, or clinical expertise in Child Safeguarding Risk Assessment is required. Candidates should have 3 to 5 or more years of post-qualification experience in child safeguarding, adolescent protection, or a relevant clinical role, together with current or recent adolescent caseload or safeguarding practice.

An active clinical license or professional registration in good standing is required. Strong written English, careful attention to detail, defensible documentation, and the ability to follow detailed project guidelines are essential.

• CSE and CSA risk-assessment expertise.
• Ability to recognise grooming, coercion, and exploitation indicators.
• Experience applying frameworks to urgency, intervention, escalation, and reporting decisions.
• Trauma-informed understanding of adolescent development, capacity, and consent.
• Active clinical license or professional registration in good standing.
• Current or recent adolescent safeguarding practice or caseload.
• Strong written English and research-grade documentation skills.
• Ability to apply detailed project guidelines consistently.

Relevant Backgrounds and Preferred Experience

Relevant backgrounds may include child protection, forensic child or adolescent psychiatry or psychology, and paediatric medicine with a safeguarding remit. Experience in a designated safeguarding or expert-witness capacity is valuable, as is familiarity with ACEs and trauma frameworks.

The role is marked entry level within the project structure, but it requires substantial post-qualification safeguarding or clinical expertise. AI training experience is not a prerequisite.

• Child protection
• Forensic child or adolescent psychiatry
• Forensic child or adolescent psychology
• Paediatric medicine with a safeguarding remit
• Designated safeguarding experience
• Expert-witness experience
• Familiarity with ACEs and trauma frameworks