Public Administration Expert - Senior Level

Role Overview

• 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 workflows are calibrated to the regulatory complexity, stakeholder scale, and public accountability stakes of federal, state, and major municipal government operations.
• Contributors design public‑sector scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior government and civic leaders think.

• 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 rule making, 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.

• 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.