Remote | Senior DoD Staff Writing SME — $40–$80/hour

24-Mag Llc; New York (NY); Remote; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

24-MAG LLC is seeking seasoned Senior DoD Staff Writing SMEs to contribute to an advanced AI training and staff-writing evaluation project. You will develop realistic DoD writing tasks, reference materials, and model responses; evaluate AI-generated staff writing; and establish clear assessment standards for accuracy and compliance.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in DoD or federal environments, experience with WARs, SITREPs, and executive summaries, and familiarity with DoD terminology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience supporting the U.S. DoD or comparable federal environments.
• Experience producing WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, or similar reports.
• Background in military or federal staff-writing is highly valuable.
• Strong understanding of DoD terminology, procedures, and reporting workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop authentic DoD staff-writing materials across operational and administrative scenarios.
• Produce WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, and performance reports.
• Apply DoD terminology, structure, tone, and reporting conventions.
• Create materials reflecting federal communication requirements.
• Maintain high standards for clarity, accuracy, and audience suitability.
• Develop prompts and artifacts for staff-writing evaluation tasks.
• Create golden responses demonstrating expected output standards.
• Design scenarios for summarisation, reporting, and administrative communication.
• Ensure tasks reflect real work performed by federal/military personnel.
• Collaborate remotely with project leads and reviewers.

Skills

DoD staff writing

Federal documentation standards

Grading rubrics design

AI evaluation

PowerPoint proficiency

Excel proficiency

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced Senior DoD Staff Writing SMEs with strong expertise in military writing, federal documentation standards, report development, grading-rubric design, and Department of Defense procedures to contribute to an advanced AI training and staff-writing evaluation project.

Selected professionals will develop realistic DoD writing tasks, reference materials, and model responses; evaluate AI-generated staff writing; and establish clear assessment standards for accuracy, tone, structure, and compliance. No prior experience in AI is required.

Key Responsibilities

DoD Staff Writing & Documentation

• Develop authentic DoD staff-writing materials across operational and administrative scenarios
• Produce Weekly Activity Reports (WARs), Situation Reports (SITREPs), executive summaries, and performance reports
• Apply appropriate military terminology, structure, tone, and reporting conventions
• Create materials reflecting realistic federal communication requirements
• Maintain strong standards for clarity, accuracy, and audience suitability

Prompts, Artifacts & Golden Responses

• Develop structured prompts and input artifacts for staff-writing evaluation tasks
• Create high-quality golden responses demonstrating expected output standards
• Design scenarios covering summarisation, reporting, and administrative communication
• Ensure tasks accurately reflect work performed by federal and military personnel
• Adapt materials across weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting formats

Evaluation Rubrics & Grading Standards

• Create grading guidelines for evaluating AI-generated staff-writing outputs
• Define criteria covering accuracy, tone, structure, completeness, and compliance
• Translate DoD writing expectations into clear and repeatable assessment standards
• Develop scoring approaches suitable for varied report and briefing formats
• Refine rubrics as project requirements and evaluation needs evolve

AI Output Review & Quality Evaluation

• Review AI-generated reports, summaries, and other staff-writing outputs
• Identify factual, structural, stylistic, or compliance-related weaknesses
• Assess whether outputs follow DoD terminology and documentation conventions
• Provide clear written feedback explaining evaluation decisions
• Apply consistent professional judgement across repeated review tasks

Federal Reporting & Project Collaboration

• Contribute expertise from federal back-office and communication workflows
• Support evaluation of PowerPoint briefings, memos, Excel summaries, and related materials
• Collaborate remotely with project leads and reviewers
• Participate in feedback cycles to improve prompts, responses, and evaluation standards
• Communicate operational and documentation requirements clearly to multidisciplinary teams

Ideal Profile

• 3+ years of relevant experience supporting the U.S. Department of Defense or comparable federal military environments
• Experience producing WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, performance reports, or similar documentation
• Background in one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces is highly valuable
• Strong understanding of DoD terminology, procedures, and reporting workflows
• Demonstrated military or federal staff-writing expertise
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and audience-appropriate language
• Experience developing or applying grading rubrics and evaluation criteria
• Strong analytical judgement when reviewing written outputs
• Familiarity with PowerPoint briefings, memos, Excel summaries, and related back-office documentation
• Understanding of federal compliance and documentation requirements
• Experience across multiple roles, units, or operational environments is advantageous
• Comfortable collaborating remotely and providing structured feedback
• No prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience is required

Engagement Details

• Independent contractor engagement
• Remote — United States only
• Compensation: $40–$80/hour
• Work will involve DoD staff writing, report development, prompt creation, golden-response authoring, rubric design, and AI-output evaluation
• Assignments may include WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, performance reports, PowerPoint briefings, memos, and Excel-based summaries
• Strong familiarity with federal reporting standards and DoD-specific workflows is central to this engagement
• Project scope, workload, reporting formats, and evaluation standards may evolve depending on project requirements
• Work must be completed without using classified, controlled, confidential, or proprietary information belonging to any employer, government agency, client, institution, or other third party

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.