Higher Education Expert - Curriculum Design

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking senior higher education professionals to design evaluation tasks for AI systems within large university contexts. The role emphasizes academic complexity, stakeholder diversity, and institutional stakes, with rubrics capturing expert decision making by senior faculty and administrators.

Contributors craft scenarios, reference outputs, and rubrics, guiding evaluation across curriculum design, enrollment planning, and research administration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior higher education roles or administration.
• Experience designing curricula, program design, accreditation reviews.
• Familiarity with university budgets, shared governance, and outcomes assessment.
• Prior rubric, curriculum design, or faculty training content authorship is a plus.

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.

Skills

Higher education expertise

Rubric authoring

Program design

Stakeholder management

Enrollment/retention knowledge

Education

Master's degree in Education

PhD in Education (preferred)

Tools

Banner/Workday Student

Canvas/Blackboard

CRM platforms

Cayuse/InfoEd

Job description

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.