Senior AI & ML Instructor

Join to apply for the Senior AI & ML Instructor role at Decoded. We are Decoded, the pioneers of transformative technology education. We democratise cutting edge skills and help transform traditional businesses into tech companies. We give our learners the skills and confidence to embrace the future of work.

Our products and methodologies have been shaped through our collaboration with some of the largest and most technologically progressive organisations in the world. We use the intelligent, ethical and creative application of technology to lay the foundations for a more productive and promising world – one with unlimited possibilities.

As the Senior AI & ML Instructor, you will work across our AI Portfolio product workstreams, including the Apprenticeship Level 6 AI Engineer programme. Key responsibilities include teaching, providing learner support and developing content. You will contribute to ensuring high-quality learning, satisfied customers and learners. Working alongside the Portfolio Director of AI, you will develop and grow the AI product line across our upskill, reskill and apprenticeship programmes.

The core teaching window is 09:00-17:00 UK time with occasional delivery outside core hours (< 10 % of sessions) for global clients.

Accountabilities:

• Ensuring your allocated teaching sessions are delivered to a consistently high quality.
• Working with the Learner Success Coaches (LSCs) to ensure learners progress through the programme.
• Responding to and resolving learner enquiries to support them in acquiring the required skills and knowledge throughout their programme.
• Supporting content and product development across the Decoded programme curriculums.
• Design and develop learning solutions, as well as initiate new products and manage them through development to operation.
• Ensuring compliance with programme standards with respect to all procedures associated with teaching, learning and assessment.

Specific Role & Responsibilities:

• Delivering effective teaching across various formats, addressing technical challenges efficiently and ensuring timely and smooth execution with a strong grasp of curriculum and standards.
• Fostering a safe and inclusive learning environment.
• Familiarising yourself with the course structure and content, proactively filling gaps in your knowledge.
• Contributing to internal training on content and delivery methodologies.
• Achieve teaching quality scores that meet or exceed quality indicators.

Skills & Behaviours:

• Building collaborative relationships.
• Solving problems elegantly and creatively.
• Organisational skills - proactivity, process improvements.
• Excellent communication skills: adaptable, clear and consistent written, verbal, 1:1, group.
• A flexible, can do attitude and a willingness to learn.
• Striving for excellence in all areas.
• Exceptional attention to detail to deliver timely, quality results.
• A passion to learn and adapt.

Essential skills for working across our AI portfolio include:

• Demonstrable professional experience in end-to-end machine learning projects.
• Up-to-date knowledge of core ML techniques, with expertise in at least one specialty area (e.g. NLP/LLMs, computer vision or generative models).
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Proficiency with Python and source control and collaboration tools (Git, GitHub/GitLab).
• Prior teaching, mentoring or coaching experience.

Desirable:

• Formal teaching qualification or EPA assessor training.
• Experience authoring interactive labs and workshops.
• Experience with data governance, responsible AI or GenAI prompt engineering.

Your performance will be measured and driven by:

• Enabling learners to apply newly learned techniques to their professional environment.
• Delivering regular high-quality learning engagements with learners.
• Coaching through the application of techniques that are new to learners.
• Striving for excellence in everything you do.

A successful candidate will be expected to achieve the following within 3 months:

• Autonomous management of content development deadlines.
• Confidence to successfully deliver at least 60% of our Apprenticeship workshops.
• An overall Teacher KPI score of 75%.
• Autonomous management of well-informed and timely responses to all learner queries on the helpdesk.

You are:

• A passionate technologist with over 2 years of Data Science industry experience.
• Confident with live coding in Python.
• An excellent and adaptable communicator, verbally and in writing.
• Self-motivated and a problem solver who takes initiative.
• A team player who is eager to improve our programmes wherever possible.

This role can be delivered fully remote within the UK, provided the working location has consistently reliable Wifi for workshop delivery. Your working hours will be 09:00 - 17:00.

Working at Decoded means you’ll get:

• 33 days leave per year (inclusive of bank holidays).
• Flexible working, including work-from-home.
• Company pension/retirement contributions.
• Health care, including dental, medical, and vision.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Free monthly lunches.
• Laptop and virtual work equipment kit provided.

Decoded is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.