Admin & Executive Support ✦ Dedicated & full-time

Content
Moderator

Reviewing, moderating and tagging user content to your guidelines, around the clock — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
Fully managedWe hire, you lead

What a Content Moderator does

User content needs consistent, around-the-clock judgement. A content moderator applies your guidelines fairly and fast, keeping your platform safe and on-brand.

Every StaffingSolutions.io content moderator is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Content review — text, image and video.
  • Policy enforcement — consistent calls.
  • Tagging — categorised correctly.
  • Escalations — routed appropriately.
  • Guideline upkeep — feedback loop.
  • Reporting — volumes and trends.
The actual work

A week in the role

A content moderator works a queue. Each item is user-submitted content measured against the client's written guidelines, decided one way or the other with a reason code attached, and either actioned or escalated. The hard part is consistency — the same decision on the same facts, shift after shift.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Working the review queue

Reviews queued content against the client's written guidelines in the platform's moderation console or a tool such as Hive or Sprinklr, and takes one of the agreed actions — approve, remove, age-restrict or escalate — with a reason code on every decision.

Screening content before publication

Screens content before it goes live — marketplace listings, profile photos and bios, reviews, forum posts and classifieds — checking for prohibited items, contact details smuggled into descriptions, and claims the client can't stand behind.

Handling user reports

Works the reported-content queue, reads the reporter's reason without treating it as proof, checks both the content and the reporting pattern for coordinated brigading, and closes the report with a decision the audit trail can explain later.

Escalating serious harm immediately

Routes child safety material, credible threats, self-harm indications and doxxing straight to the client's nominated safety contact under the agreed escalation path with the evidence preserved — the client decides on law enforcement and regulator referral.

Applying the enforcement ladder

Issues warnings, content removals and temporary restrictions against the client's published enforcement ladder, records the strike on the account, and refers permanent bans and account terminations to the client for the final call.

Working the appeals queue

Re-reviews appealed decisions cold, without reading the original moderator's note first, records whether the call is upheld or overturned and why, and feeds repeated overturns back as a guideline problem rather than a moderator problem.

Community and comment moderation

Moderates comments and direct messages on the brand's Facebook page, Instagram, TikTok, Discord server or private group — hiding rather than deleting where that's the policy, pinning the answer to a repeated question, and blocking persistent abusers.

Reviews and ratings monitoring

Watches Google Business Profile, Trustpilot and ProductReview.com.au for reviews that breach the platform's own rules — competitor posts, incentivised reviews, reviews naming individual staff — and prepares the removal request with evidence for the client to lodge.

Spam, scam and fraud patterns

Identifies the recurring scam shapes — off-platform payment requests, link farms, cloned profiles, crypto and investment pitches, romance approaches — then removes and clusters them so one operator's accounts get actioned together rather than one at a time.

Calibration on edge cases

Keeps a log of cases the guidelines don't clearly cover, brings them to a regular calibration session with the client's trust and safety lead, and drafts the proposed wording change for the client to adopt into policy.

Tuning filters and blocklists

Maintains the banned term lists, pattern rules and image hash lists in the automated filter, reviews what the automation is catching wrongly, and proposes threshold changes to the client instead of loosening them unilaterally.

Shift handover and trend reporting

Writes the handover note covering open cases, accounts under watch and anything still escalated, and reports emerging patterns — a new scam script, a coordinated pile-on, a spike from one source — before they turn into an incident.

Regulatory complaint routing

Logs and routes complaints referencing Australia's Online Safety Act or an eSafety Commissioner notice straight to the client's designated contact with the content preserved, and does not correspond with the regulator on the client's behalf.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does a content moderator cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the content Moderator role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of a content Moderator hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your content Moderator will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.