Remote Political Science QA Lead

YO IT Consulting; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking a Political Science Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across political science AI training projects, reviewing AI-generated content and trainer work, and providing precise written feedback aligned with project rubrics.

You will monitor accuracy, bias sensitivity, and formatting, communicate updates to remote teams via Discord and collaboration tools, and support onboarding,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, Government, Political Theory, Security Studies, Law, Sociology, Economics, or a closely related social science field.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
• 3+ years of experience in political science research, teaching, policy analysis, public affairs, international relations, political writing, academic review, or related analytical workflows.
• Strong understanding of political institutions, comparative politics, international relations, public policy, political theory, electoral systems, governance, state capacity, civil society, and political behavior.
• Ability to evaluate political science content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as oversimplification, ideological bias, unsupported claims, incorrect institutional descriptions, misleading causal reasoning, or weak comparative analysis.
• Familiarity with areas such as democracy and authoritarianism, political economy, public administration, constitutional systems, electoral politics, conflict studies, international organizations, policy evaluation, or survey research is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of analysts, researchers, reviewers, educators, annotators, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
• Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, calibration tasks, and documentation.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, policy QA, academic review, fact-checking, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check political science items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and elevate recurring or critical issues.
• Political science review: Evaluate AI-generated political science explanations, comparative analyses, policy summaries, political theory discussions, institutional descriptions, and reasoning for accuracy and balance.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and political-science-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around institutions, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, international relations, bias, and rubric interpretation.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
• Documentation: Create and maintain political science project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and political-science-specific review requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply political science review guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
• Bias and risk review: Flag misleading, ideologically one-sided, unsupported, outdated, politically inflammatory, or poorly contextualized claims.
• Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for political science AI training projects.

Skills

Strong English communication

Remote team leadership

Quality assurance

Rubric-based review

Policy analysis

Academic review

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Political Science or related field

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Tracker tools

Dashboards

Project management software

Job description

YO IT Consulting is seeking a Political Science Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across political science AI training projects, reviewing AI-generated content and trainer work, and providing precise written feedback aligned with project rubrics.

You will monitor accuracy, bias sensitivity, and formatting, communicate updates to remote teams via Discord and collaboration tools, and support onboarding,