Senior Contract AI Trainer, Part-Time, London

About the role

Demand for our training has outgrown what our in-house team can deliver, so we are building a small associate bench of senior contract AI trainers across the UK. This is an ad hoc, part-time engagement rather than an employed post: we offer you days as they come up in your territory, you accept the ones that work for you, and you invoice for the days you deliver. There is no retainer, no minimum guarantee of work, and no employee benefits attached.

This is a senior position and we mean it. It is not a development opportunity, a first step into training, or a role we can coach someone into between bookings. You will be sent to a client alone, under our name, and the first time we see you work will often be the same day the client does. We are therefore only interested in trainers who have already trained organisations other than their own employer, commercially, and who can give us client references we can actually ring.

This is also a regional post rather than a national one, and you must live in London or the surrounding South East. Bookings are often confirmed at short notice and start first thing in the morning, so we need someone already in the territory who knows how to get around it. We are not able to consider applicants who would travel in from elsewhere in the country, however willing.

One more thing that rules people out quickly: we need hands-on AI practitioners, not theorists. You should have implemented AI in real organisations yourself, with real constraints and real users, and be able to talk about what broke, what was abandoned, and what actually stuck. Delegates ask practical questions within the first ten minutes, and a trainer whose knowledge comes from reading about the field rather than working in it is found out immediately.

The work varies widely in scale. One booking may be a half-day with six people around a table at an SME; the next may be a full management team at a mid-sized firm; the next may be a presentation to a few hundred delegates at a conference or trade event. You need to be equally credible in all three settings, and to know that they are not the same job.

You will deliver Coaley Peak training programmes to client teams in your region: AI fundamentals for non-technical staff, practical business applications, prompt engineering and LLM best practice, AI governance and UK regulatory context, and platform-specific sessions on our engines. Most delivery is in person at client offices or event venues within your territory, with some remote sessions. A training day is 6 hours.

London is our densest market and the one with the widest spread of audiences. In a single month you might run a morning workshop for a twelve-person marketing agency in Shoreditch, an afternoon with a financial services compliance team in the City, and a breakout session at a trade conference. Clients here tend to arrive with some AI exposure already, often uneven across the team, and they expect a trainer who can go deeper than the introductory material when the room demands it.

You are not writing the curriculum from a blank page. We provide the materials, the workbooks, the exercises and the case studies, and we brief you properly before every engagement. What we need from you is the part that cannot be packaged: the ability to walk into a room of people who are variously excited, sceptical, quietly worried about their jobs, or convinced they already know it all, and take all of them somewhere useful by the end of the day.

The kind of person we are looking for

At Coaley Peak, the technical work is only half the job. We are looking for people who are genuinely reliable, who do what they say they will, when they said they would, without needing to be chased. People who are friendly and easy to work with, both with colleagues and with clients. People who can sit in a boardroom and explain a complex AI model in plain English, and then go back to their laptop and write clean, well-documented code. People who are hungry, hard-working, and take real pride in their output, not because someone is watching, but because that is simply how they operate.

Reliability is not a nice-to-have on this contract, it is the whole basis of it. When you accept a date, a client has blocked out a day for a team of people, booked a room, and told their staff to be there. We are not on site to cover for you. We need someone who confirms bookings promptly, arrives early, has tested the kit before the room fills up, answers their phone in the days beforehand, and has never treated a training date as provisional. If you cancel late, we cannot use you again, and we would rather say that plainly now than discover it in November.

This role also turns on emotional intelligence more than any other we hire for. AI training rooms are rarely neutral. Someone in the room is frightened that this technology will take their job, someone else has been told to attend and resents it, and someone else has been using ChatGPT quietly for a year and wants to test you. You read that quickly, you name the fear honestly rather than talking past it, and you adjust your pace and pitch for the people actually in front of you rather than the ones in the lesson plan. You are patient with the person asking the basic question in front of their colleagues, and equally comfortable telling a confident senior stakeholder that they are wrong in a way that leaves their dignity intact.

And you know your subject properly, from doing it rather than from reading about it. You have delivered real AI training to real professional audiences, more than once, and you have implemented AI inside organisations yourself: chosen the tools, hit the limits, handled the data questions, and seen what people actually do with it once the training day is over. You can talk about what large language models do and where they fail without hiding behind slides. You keep up, you use these tools yourself weekly, and you can speak about the last twelve months of change from experience rather than from headlines. When you do not know something, you say so and follow up afterwards.

What you will do

• →Deliver Coaley Peak AI training in person across London and the South East, plus remote sessions where the client prefers it
• →Deliver at every scale we are booked for: small SME workshops, full-team sessions, board briefings, and presentations to large audiences at conferences and industry events
• →Read the room and adapt delivery in real time: pace, depth, examples, and tone, based on the actual audience in front of you
• →Handle the emotional realities of AI training directly and honestly, including job security concerns, scepticism, and wide gaps in confidence within the same group
• →Run practical, hands-on exercises so that delegates leave having actually used the tools rather than having watched a demonstration
• →Prepare thoroughly for each engagement using the client brief and our materials, tailoring examples to the client's sector and workflows
• →Confirm bookings promptly, arrive ahead of time, and test the room and equipment before delegates arrive
• →Deliver AI governance, data protection, and responsible-use content accurately and without overstating what the technology can do
• →Complete post-session feedback and a short delivery report for every engagement
• →Flag content that is out of date, unclear, or landing badly so our in-house team can improve it
• →Represent Coaley Peak professionally on client premises and maintain confidentiality over everything you see and hear there

What we are looking for

Essential

• →At least five years' experience delivering corporate training to professional audiences, at a senior level. This is not a role for trainers early in their career
• →Notable, provable experience training companies other than your own employer: commercial or client-side delivery, not solely internal staff training, with at least two contactable client references
• →Notable, demonstrable experience delivering AI training specifically: multiple engagements, with references or recordings we can review
• →Based in London or the surrounding South East. This is a regional post and we cannot consider applicants travelling in from outside the territory
• →Hands-on experience implementing AI inside real organisations, not theoretical or academic knowledge of it: you have selected tools, built or embedded them into live workflows, and dealt with the practical fallout
• →A track record of complete reliability: you turn up, on time, prepared, every time, and can evidence it through client references
• →Strong working knowledge of large language models and practical AI business applications, including where these tools fail and how to work around it
• →Hands-on, current personal use of mainstream AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or similar) in real work, not just in demonstrations
• →High emotional intelligence: able to read a room, manage resistance and anxiety, and adapt delivery to the people present
• →Confident across the full range of settings, from a table of six at an SME to a stage presentation in front of a few hundred delegates
• →Available for ad hoc, part-time contract work with reasonable notice, and able to travel across your territory
• →Self-employed status or operating through your own limited company, with your own professional indemnity and public liability insurance
• →Right to work in the United Kingdom

Desirable (not essential)

• →Direct industry experience in one or more sectors well represented in this region: financial services, insurance, legal and professional services, marketing and advertising, technology, and media. This is highly preferable, and trainers who can speak a client's sector language from the inside are prioritised for bookings in those sectors
• →Experience presenting at conferences, trade shows, or industry events
• →Formal training, teaching, or facilitation qualification (CELTA, CIPD L&D, PTLLS, or equivalent)
• →Experience training regulated or sensitive audiences (healthcare, education, public sector, financial services)
• →Understanding of UK AI governance frameworks and data protection legislation (UK GDPR, DPA 2018)
• →Experience designing or contributing to training materials as well as delivering them
• →An established local network or professional profile within the region

What we offer

• →Up to £550 per day for in-person delivery and up to £350 per day for remote delivery, dependent on experience and sector background, based on a 6-hour training day
• →Paid preparation time on top of the delivery rate, agreed in advance for each engagement
• →Genuinely ad hoc and part-time: we offer the days, you accept what suits, and you keep the rest of your diary
• →Reasonable travel and accommodation costs arranged and reimbursed where agreed in advance of the engagement
• →Prepared materials, workbooks, exercises, and a full client brief for every session, so your unpaid time stays low
• →Payment within 14 days of a correctly submitted invoice
• →Access to our internal AI briefings and tooling updates so your own knowledge stays current
• →First refusal on additional days in your territory as demand grows
• →This is a contract for services: the day rate is the whole of the package, with no holiday pay, pension, sick pay, or other employee benefits

Vetting & pre-employment checks

Enhanced DBS

All Coaley Peak roles require a minimum of an Enhanced DBS check as standard. By applying you consent to these checks being conducted in the event of an offer being made. Training delivery in educational institutions, healthcare settings, or public sector organisations may require sector-specific checks. Contractors are responsible for maintaining their own professional indemnity and public liability cover, and both must be in place before the first engagement.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short covering note to careers@coaleypeak.co.uk, quoting reference CP-TRN-2026-001. Include two contactable client references from organisations you have trained commercially, outside your own employer. Tell us about two AI training sessions you have delivered, including one that did not go to plan and what you did about it in the room, and tell us which industries you have worked in yourself. If you have a recording of yourself training or presenting, send a link, it is worth more to us than another page of cover letter. We review on a rolling basis and acknowledge all applications within five working days.

Applications are accepted electronically via our online form below, or by email to careers@coaleypeak.co.uk. If you require this role information or the application form in an alternative format (including large print, audio, or plain text) please email us before applying and we will provide it promptly.

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Career progression

Disclaimer: Career progression paths shown are indicative and based on typical industry trajectories. They are not a guarantee of promotion or role availability at Coaley Peak or any other organisation. Progression depends on individual performance, business requirements, and market conditions.

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