AI and Automation Instructor

We are Decoded, the pioneers of transformative technology education. We democratise cutting-edge skills. We 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.

We are looking for an AI & Automation Instructor to work full time to deliver our best-in-class Digital Innovation workshops to apprenticeship learners on our Level 4 AI & Automation programme and our Level 3 Gen AI Champion programme.

This role is dedicated to the delivery of workshops, delivered between 09:00 - 17:00 GMT. The majority of workshops will be 3.5 or 4.5 hours long (including set-up and wrap-up time) with 8 hour hackathon workshops delivered less frequently throughout the programmes.

Infrequently you may be asked to work outside core UK working hours due to the global nature of Decoded's client base, for which you may take time off in lieu.

As an AI & Automation Instructor at Decoded, you will be responsible for:

— Teaching our learning content to groups of apprenticeship learners via virtual workshops

— Honing your skills as an educator and building your knowledge of andragogy and teaching theory

— Working with the Learner Success Coaches (LSCs) to ensure learners progress through the programme. Each Learner will have the support of an LSC to support them with practical and pastoral guidance.

— Contributing to product improvement and content development

Your specific responsibilities are:

‒ Workshop preparation and knowledge of content

‒ Comprehensively understand the apprenticeship curriculums and learning objectives of our programmes

‒ Reviewing exercises and other learning materials before a workshop

‒ Learning about your learners and the businesses they work for

‒ Familiarising yourself with the course structure and content, proactively filling gaps in your knowledge

‒ Maintaining a continual learning mindset and strive to advance your knowledge in your specialist domains

‒ Timekeeping

‒ Classroom management

‒ Atmosphere: both professional and energetic, with good energy and engagement level with learners

‒ Technical issues using Zoom/Teams, Mural, Menti and other key tools

– Decode and communicate complex concepts and principles with energy, focus and patience

– Engaging and captivating the attention of a virtual room of busy professionals

– Facilitating the learning journey for your audience, and leaving no-one behind whilst also providing stimulation for advanced learners

– Enabling an inclusive, collaborative, and respectful learning environment

‒ Contributor to training programme development projects by providing SME input and peer review of content

‒ Producing materials to support learners with stretch needs, and instructions for technical content to support learning

You will report into the Portfolio Director for Digital Innovation, in the Product Department.

– Building collaborative relationships

– Solving problems elegantly and creatively: “find a way or make a way”

– 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

– Possesses practitioner-level expertise in enterprise workflow automation tools, with particular focus on Power Automate across cloud and desktop, Zapier, n8n, or Make.

– Demonstrates advanced practical knowledge of prompt engineering techniques, including few-shot prompting, chain of thought methods, and system instruction design.

– Understands and applies Lean methodology, process waste identification, value

stream mapping, and basic process notation styles.

– Helps learners map out their manual workflows visually before starting any

– technical automation.

– Coding expertise on extending low-code platform capabilities using

– artificial intelligence assistants.

– Applied practical knowledge of writing, modifying, and debugging lightweight Python

or JavaScript code.

– 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: you don’t accept mediocrity in yourself or the team around you

– Solving problems elegantly and creatively: “find a way or make a way”

– Autonomous management of learning content development deadlines

– Autonomous management of workshop delivery

– Confidence to successfully deliver at least 80% of our Apprenticeship workshops

– An overall Learner Feedback score +8/10

– An overall Teacher KPI score of 75%

You are:

– A passionate technologist with over 2 years of experience teaching AI, automation, in a school, university or higher level

– An excellent and adaptable communicator, verbally and in writing

– Self-motivated and a problem solver who takes initiative

– Passionate about technology and learning

– A team player who is eager to improve our programmes wherever possible and contributes to overall morale

– Always keen to learn, improve and stretch your own knowledge, skills and behaviours

This role can be delivered fully remote, provided the working location has consistently reliable Wifi for workshop delivery. The Decoded office in Shoreditch, London is available to all Decoded employees for non-workshop delivery work.

Your working hours will be 09:00 - 17:00.

We run a dedicated learning calendar to hone craft skills in teaching, leadership, strategy

and other relevant disciplines.

Performance reviews and feedback mechanisms for teaching will ensure you are

recognised and rewarded for the value that you bring to Decoded.