AI Mentor

CompanyCambridge Spark

LocationUnited Kingdom

Posted At1/3/2026

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IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

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Description

Department: Delivery

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Service Delivery Manager

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: Depending on experience

Role Overview

As a Mentor for the AI Champion Apprenticeship Programme, you will play a crucial role in supporting professionals to drive technological innovation across their organisation. You will help apprentices identify, implement and champion AI technologies across their business to improve efficiency and productivity.

You will have a background in driving productivity improvements and leading digital or operational change, you will empower learners to become confident, capable AI Champions.

Key responsibilities:

Support with eligibility professional discussions
Formative and summative assessments against the Knowledge, skills and behaviours of the Apprenticeship Standard
Support learners with developing and producing high quality portfolio of projects
Support learners to prepare for the Apprenticeship End Point Assessment
Provide Ad-hoc technical support and check-in sessions

Attend weekly and ad-hoc 1:1 and group mentoring sessions

Support with Line manager input and the final employer reference

Prepare the learner to enter into Gateway

Provide regular feedback and updates on learner progress to the Learner Success Team

Support the Faculty team with content development and learner support tickets

Provide general advice, guidance to all learners

Act as a support point of contact for learners with portfolio queries

To safeguard children and vulnerable adults from harm and to report concerns in accordance with the Cambridge Spark process

To develop good relationships and encourage equality of opportunity between different groups and eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation

Attend the regular team meetings and provide updates as requested on learner progress

To support with any ad-hoc duties or requests that may be reasonably required to successfully carry out the role or to support the business

Candidate Specification:

Essential

Knowledge of or practical experience with modern AI and data tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, Power BI, ChatGPT or related platforms.

Experience mentoring, teaching, or coaching professionals in a learning or organisational development context—particularly in roles related to apprenticeships or digital skills.

Experience of prioritising workload, working to strict deadlines and following governing procedures and controls

The ability to work independently and as part of a team, supporting development of other colleagues

Conscientious with excellent interpersonal skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Desirable

Experience in leading business change initiatives, improving productivity through technology, or embedding digital tools into team workflows.
Background in education or an AI - related field

Interview process:

Competency based interview + role play (brief to prepare will be shared in the interview invite) - 1 hour
Ways of Working/Meet the Team - 45 minutes

Company Benefits:

Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme

25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday

A day for volunteering

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month

Annual Summer and Xmas events

Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events

CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth

Private medical insurance and cash plan

Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)

Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.