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

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG LLC offers an independent contractor consulting opportunity focused on DoD staff writing and documentation. The role develops realistic writing tasks, reference materials, model responses, and grading standards, and evaluates AI-generated staff-writing outputs for accuracy, tone, structure, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• No prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience is required
• Background in one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces is highly valuable
• Experience across multiple roles, units, or operational environments is advantageous

Benefits

• Remote — United States only

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