The work

You receive draft survey instruments — physician screeners, patient questionnaires, or full fielded studies — and produce a written methodological review. That means checking whether the specialty screen and patient-volume qualification actually recruit the intended respondent, whether skip logic routes cleanly, whether response scales match the construct being measured, and whether a question about treatment sequencing assumes a pathway that doesn't reflect real practice. You flag leading phrasing, ambiguous stems, unrealistic recall windows, double-barrelled items, and ordering effects, then write out what should change and why. Feedback is expected to be actionable: not "this question is confusing" but the specific failure mode and a defensible rewrite.

Some tasks pair a methodologist with a therapeutic-area clinician; the most valued profiles cover both sides alone — someone who can assess whether an ulcerative colitis instrument is methodologically sound and whether its terminology, line-of-therapy framing, and clinical assumptions hold up. Pure survey methodologists without TA depth are explicitly still in scope.

What the screen looks for

The intake is AI-led and follow-up heavy. It probes for hands-on instrument work rather than oversight: which surveys you personally wrote or programmed, what audience, what sample size, what went wrong in field and what you changed. Expect to be pushed on specifics — how you screened for a treating oncologist versus a general one, why you chose a five-point over a seven-point scale, what you did when incidence rates collapsed mid-field. Vague agency-level answers ("we ran a lot of HCP trackers") tend not to survive the second follow-up. Written reasoning is weighted heavily, since the deliverable is prose.

Logistics

  • Remote, asynchronous, project-based; work arrives in batches tied to indication launches.
  • Flagged as urgent at posting, so early availability and fast turnaround matter more than usual.
  • Hours are flexible and variable — typically part-time alongside existing work, with no guaranteed volume.
  • Pay band of $140/hr is as observed on the platform, not a guarantee; rates vary with depth and whether you cover both methodology and therapeutic area.