Senior Public Administration & Policy Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking senior civic and public administration professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large government and public-sector contexts. The role focuses on designing public-sector scenarios, drafting reference outputs, and writing rubrics that capture how senior government and civic leaders think, across federal, state, and municipal levels.

You will collaborate with policy, program, and data teams to ensure rigorous, scalable assessments that reflect real-world

Qualifications

• 5+ years working in a senior capacity at a federal, state, or large municipal government agency, or within a major public policy, civic tech, or intergovernmental organization.
• Direct ownership of agency programs, public policy initiatives, or constituent-facing service delivery at scale.
• Fluency in government processes and tooling, plus understanding of how public budgets, procurement, legislative review, and regulatory compliance actually work.
• Prior rubric, public-sector training curriculum, or policy documentation authorship is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Construct public-sector scenarios spanning large-scale budget appropriations, multi-agency coordination, and complex regulatory or legislative review cycles at federal, state, and municipal levels.
• Build civic tasks across public policy analysis, constituent services delivery, intergovernmental relations, public communications, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop public administration scenarios involving tools such as government ERP/case management systems, public records platforms, GIS systems, and constituent relationship management (CRM) tools used across agencies.
• Apply public administration frameworks (policy impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, administrative rulemaking, stakeholder engagement models) and produce reference policy briefs, agency strategies, and executive/legislative communications.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic public-sector judgment from generic bureaucratic or textbook recall.

Job description

Mercor is seeking senior civic and public administration professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large government and public-sector contexts. The role focuses on designing public-sector scenarios, drafting reference outputs, and writing rubrics that capture how senior government and civic leaders think, across federal, state, and municipal levels.

You will collaborate with policy, program, and data teams to ensure rigorous, scalable assessments that reflect real-world