You can edit any role you’ve posted, whether it’s still a draft, currently open, or already filled. Edits take effect immediately; existing applicants are not automatically renotified.
Editing the role
What changes mean for existing applicants
Anastasis does not automatically email applicants when you edit a role. The trade-off:
- Small clarifications (typo fixes, sharper success criteria, adding one more tool) are fine to push without renotifying.
- Material changes to pay range or weekly hours can invalidate decisions applicants already made. The compatibility score they were ranked under is also recomputed against the new scope.
Closing or pausing a role
- Close role — the role is no longer visible to new applicants and any pending applications stay in your queue for review or rejection.
- Reopen — closed roles can be reopened. The original applicant queue is preserved.
- There is no “pause” state separate from closing; closing is the pause.
What you cannot edit after hiring
Once you hire a contractor for the role, you can still edit the public scope (it’ll only affect new applicants in the future). But the contract terms with the active contractor are governed by the engagement, not the role page — to change the contractor’s hourly rate or weekly hours, edit the engagement, not the role.
Drafts
Saving a draft puts the role in Draft state. Drafts are private to your account, never appear in the contractor job feed, and don’t accept applications. Publish when the scope is ready.