Instruction Compliance Tester

Blue Oak Consulting specializes in financial interrogation. We provide high-stakes advisory on pricing and capital allocation for situations where the standard corporate narrative is no longer sufficient. To maintain the accuracy of our output, we are looking for an Instruction Compliance Tester currently based in South Africa. This role is a central part of our internal quality assurance workflow, ensuring that our consulting reports and advisory notes meet our specific drafting requirements and factual standards.

About the role

This is a part-time contract engagement within our documentation team. In this role, you will review internal drafts, consulting summaries, and advisory briefings that have been partially developed through our internal drafting pipelines. The work involves a meticulous comparison between the final text and the specific instructions provided at the start of the writing process. You will report directly to our documentation lead, helping to maintain the high standard of logic and evidence that our board-level clients expect.

What you will do

• Review internal advisory drafts and consulting reports to verify that all specific formatting and logic instructions have been followed.
• Check claims within research summaries against primary source materials, including market data and interview notes.
• Identify instances where a draft fails to follow the intended structure or deviates from the provided briefing notes.
• Document recurring issues and inconsistencies in our internal quality log to help improve our drafting workflows.
• Verify factual consistency across long-form reports, ensuring that data cited in one section aligns with the summary found in another.
• Escalate unclear or unsupported statements to the senior editorial team for further investigation.
• Support our general documentation cycle by ensuring every report adheres to the Blue Oak style guide and technical standards.

What we are looking for

• A university degree or equivalent professional experience in a research, legal, or editorial field.
• Two to three years of experience in document quality assurance, proofreading, or professional business writing.
• A high level of comfort reading complex financial and commercial documentation.
• A skeptical and detail-oriented mindset: you should be able to spot logical gaps or missing citations that others might overlook.
• Excellent written English skills, specifically within a professional and analytical context.
• Current residency in South Africa: this is mandatory for our administrative and time-zone coordination, and we are not offering relocation.

Helpful background

• Experience working in management consulting support or a corporate research environment.
• Familiarity with shared document workspaces and tracked-changes workflows.
• An interest in commercial logic and financial decision-making.

What the role offers

This is a part-time, project-based contract role. As an independent contractor, you will have the flexibility to work from any location within South Africa. The expected commitment is between 15 and 20 hours per week, with schedules coordinated at the start of each monthly project cycle. We offer a competitive hourly rate, which will be disclosed during the interview process. Payments are made via bank transfer on a regular monthly schedule. For this role, you will be expected to use your own reliable computer and secure high-speed internet connection.

About Blue Oak Consulting

Blue Oak Consulting provides independent advisory on pricing, portfolio economics, capital allocation, and acquisition assumptions. We focus on commercial decisions where the financial consequences are material and the standard narrative is no longer sufficient. Our work is largely about reading numbers with skepticism to see what they might be hiding. We test whether the logic behind a commercial move actually holds under pressure or if it depends on assumptions that have not been properly stressed. We work directly with boards, management teams, and investors to identify where value is leaking and where capital is trapped. Our independence is fundamental, allowing us to be honest when the economics of a deal or strategy do not make sense. We help our clients find clarity by separating what is carrying a decision from what is merely decorative.