Job Description
Role Overview
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Mercor is seeking senior higher education professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in large university and higher education institution contexts.
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The workflows are calibrated to the academic complexity, stakeholder diversity, and institutional stakes of large research universities and higher education systems.
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Contributors design higher education scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior faculty and university administrators think.
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Key Responsibilities
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Construct higher education scenarios spanning curriculum and program design, multi-stakeholder faculty senate or accreditation review, and complex institutional budget or enrollment planning cycles.
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Build education tasks across academic program development, student affairs and retention, research administration and grant compliance, faculty governance, and institutional
advancement/fundraising.
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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).
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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.
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Author rubrics that distinguish authentic higher education judgment from generic academic or policy-manual recall.
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Ideal Qualifications
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5+ years working as faculty, an academic administrator, or in a senior operational role at a college, university, or higher education system.
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Direct ownership of academic programs,
enrollment/retention
initiatives, research administration, or institutional strategic priorities.
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Fluency in higher education tooling and frameworks, plus understanding of how university budgets, accreditation compliance, and shared governance actually work.
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Prior rubric, curriculum-design, or faculty-training content authorship is a plus.
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📌 Higher Education Specialist - Senior Level (New South Wales)
🏢 Mercor
📍 New South Wales