TuringDomain experts
Professional Writing Human Data Collection - Academic and Education
Pay not published
About this role, in Turing's words
We are looking for experienced Academic and Education professionals to contribute to realistic professional-writing and education-domain use cases across business, academic, technical, and career-related contexts. The ideal candidate will have strong academic or education expertise, excellent written communication skills, and the ability to produce clear, structured, accurate, and well-supported content in a professional tone. Candidates should be comfortable applying U.S.-specific education practices and maintaining awareness of relevant U.S. academic standards, institutional policies, regulations, and jurisdictional considerations.
What you'll do
Key Responsibilities
- Create and evaluate realistic professional-writing and academic or education-domain scenarios.
- Develop high-quality business, technical, academic, and career-related education content.
- Apply appropriate academic terminology, tone, structure, and formatting for different audiences.
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- Use practical knowledge of teaching, curriculum, assessment, academic administration, research, and education workflows.
- Incorporate relevant U.S. education standards, institutional policies, regulations, and jurisdictional considerations.
- Review content for accuracy, clarity, consistency, inclusivity, educational relevance, and academic integrity.
- Identify inaccuracies, unsupported claims, unclear explanations, and potential compliance or academic integrity concerns.
- Provide expert feedback to improve the quality and realism of academic and education-related tasks.
- Collaborate with project teams to evaluate and refine education-related content and professional use cases.
Candidate background
Required Qualifications
- 8–10 years of professional experience in academia, education, research, or academic administration preferred.
- Strong expertise in at least one or more of the listed academic or education categories.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience creating, reviewing, teaching, researching, or managing academic or education-related content.
- Strong understanding of U.S. academic practices, education systems, institutional expectations, and relevant regulations.
- Ability to explain complex academic or subject-matter concepts clearly and accurately.
- Strong analytical, research, and critical-thinking skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as Faculty, Research,
- Student Services, Administration, Technology, Compliance, or Operations.
Preferred Qualifications
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- Master’s degree, doctorate, or equivalent advanced qualification in a relevant field.
- Experience as a professor, lecturer, teacher, researcher, academic advisor, program coordinator, instructional designer, or education administrator.
- Experience with U.S.-focused academic institutions, research organizations, vocational education, education technology, learning platforms, curriculum development, assessment, academic research, accessibility, academic integrity, or regulatory compliance.
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Turing's words
Posted by Turing, reproduced here so you can judge the role before clicking. Original posting ↗
About Turing: Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.
Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM, and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.
About the Role
We are looking for experienced Academic and Education professionals to contribute to realistic professional-writing and education-domain use cases across business, academic, technical, and career-related contexts. The ideal candidate will have strong academic or education expertise, excellent written communication skills, and the ability to produce clear, structured, accurate, and well-supported content in a professional tone. Candidates should be comfortable applying U.S.-specific education practices and maintaining awareness of relevant U.S. academic standards, institutional policies, regulations, and jurisdictional considerations.
Areas of Expertise
Experts should have hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas:Areas of Expertise
• Academic Instruction, Curriculum & Student Support: Academic instruction and teaching, academic advising, academic program review, action-learning, assessment and learning analytics, basic skills and developmental/remedial education, curriculum development and management, general education assessment, educational setting management, online learning administration, continuing education and workforce programs, and instructional design.
• Business, Communication & Social Sciences: Business, management, marketing, communication, journalism, anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, public policy, public administration, social services, history, archaeology, philosophy, religious studies, liberal arts, general studies, and humanities.
• Science, Mathematics & Technology: Biological and biomedical sciences, agriculture, animal, plant and veterinary science, computer engineering, information sciences, data science, analytics, mathematics, statistics, earth sciences, physical sciences, natural resources, conservation, and science technologies.
• Engineering, Architecture & Applied Technologies: General engineering, engineering-related technologies, architecture, military technologies, military science, leadership and operational art, transportation, and materials moving.
• Health, Family & Professional Programs: Health professions, family and consumer sciences, human sciences, culinary services, entertainment, personal services, parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, kinesiology, and residency programs.
• Languages, Arts & Specialized Studies: English language and literature, foreign language studies, language acquisition, applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, visual and performing arts, education, library science, legal professions and studies, theology, religious vocations, and multidisciplinary studies.
• Research Administration, Compliance & Academic Integrity: Research administration, grants and sponsored programs, human subjects research compliance, animal research compliance, research integrity, academic misconduct, and institutional research.
• Other Academic or Education Specializations: Any other relevant academic, education, research, or subject-matter specialization.
Experience with curriculum systems, learning management systems, academic assessment tools, education technology, research platforms, and institutional data systems is highly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
• Create and evaluate realistic professional-writing and academic or education-domain scenarios.
• Develop high-quality business, technical, academic, and career-related education content.
• Apply appropriate academic terminology, tone, structure, and formatting for different audiences.
• Use practical knowledge of teaching, curriculum, assessment, academic administration, research, and education workflows.
• Incorporate relevant U.S. education standards, institutional policies, regulations, and jurisdictional considerations.
• Review content for accuracy, clarity, consistency, inclusivity, educational relevance, and academic integrity.
• Identify inaccuracies, unsupported claims, unclear explanations, and potential compliance or academic integrity concerns.
• Provide expert feedback to improve the quality and realism of academic and education-related tasks.
• Collaborate with project teams to evaluate and refine education-related content and professional use cases.
Required Qualifications
• 8–10 years of professional experience in academia, education, research, or academic administration preferred.
• Strong expertise in at least one or more of the listed academic or education categories.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating, reviewing, teaching, researching, or managing academic or education-related content.
• Strong understanding of U.S. academic practices, education systems, institutional expectations, and relevant regulations.
• Ability to explain complex academic or subject-matter concepts clearly and accurately.
• Strong analytical, research, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as Faculty, Research,
• Student Services, Administration, Technology, Compliance, or Operations. Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree, doctorate, or equivalent advanced qualification in a relevant field.
• Experience as a professor, lecturer, teacher, researcher, academic advisor, program coordinator, instructional designer, or education administrator.
• Experience with U.S.-focused academic institutions, research organizations, vocational education, education technology, learning platforms, curriculum development, assessment, academic research, accessibility, academic integrity, or regulatory compliance.
Offer Details
• Commitment Required: 40 hours per week with 8 hours of overlap with PST
• Engagement Type: Contractor
• Engagement Length: Up to 5 weeks
• Candidates may be selected based on their specific academic specialization and relevant U.S. education-domain expertise.
Evaluation Process
• Shortlisted candidates will be sent a Job Interest Form .
• Finalized talents will go through profile review and proceed further accordingly.
Working with TuringPay, getting started and work, from Turing's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Paid monthly, around the 5th, straight to your bank account, or inside Deel on projects run through Deel. Its help articles disagree on whether that is the 5th calendar day or business day. help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding, help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec..., help.turing.com/articles/1226770947-project-offboarding
- Before your first paid task
- A short application, with tests on some roles. Turing's review article says an interview is typically required for all roles. Onboarding covers the terms, ID verification with a driver's license or passport, and tax and payment details. help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing, help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding
- How much work
- Review takes from 48 hours to 6 weeks after you finish applying, and the client makes the final choice. No reply within 6 weeks usually means you were not selected. help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing
- Contract
- Depending on the project, the engagement rests on Turing's Terms of Service and a Service Agreement, on Deel, or on a partner that provides the contract. help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 693 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 130 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery | 88 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 24 Sep 2026, and still on Turing's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- Posted by Turing
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 108647
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