Coaching
Coach with iO-Sphere
How coaching here works
Real problems, real data
Learners work in Prism, our simulated business built on 500 million rows of real data. You coach them through the problems a data team actually gets.
Scenarios and feedback, not slides
Sessions run on scenarios and direct feedback. You also run one-to-ones, mark work and write feedback learners can act on.
Three kinds of learner
Career changers on our Skills Bootcamps, working professionals on our apprenticeships, and employer teams on our commercial programmes.
Ways to work with us
We work with coaches in the UK and South Africa, from our London and Cape Town offices and remotely.
Day rate
Paid by the day for the sessions or programmes you deliver. Tell us your rate when you register.
Flexible
Part-time coaching that fits around your other work.
Fixed-term contract
Coach a cohort from first session to final submission, on PAYE.
Permanent
Full-time or part-time, on our team all year.
What we look for
- Hands-on experience in at least one of: data analytics, data engineering, AI, business analysis, or data protection and governance
- An engaging presenter, in the room and on a video call: you hold attention, read the group and keep people involved
- The ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical people without talking down to them
- No teaching experience required. If you haven't coached before, we'll train you
For our funded programmes
Coaching on our Skills Bootcamps and apprenticeships needs two more things: the Level 3 Award in Education and Training (we fund it, so you don't need it before you apply), and a criminal record check, which is an enhanced DBS check in the UK or an apostilled police clearance certificate in South Africa. Coaches in South Africa deliver some of our funded programmes too. Without the qualification and the check you can still coach on our commercial programmes.
Safeguarding and the checks before you start →The coaches you'd work alongside
Practitioners from data roles across industry.
Tash Joslin
Data Coach
20+ years in data strategy. Co-founded Mojo.
Jen Godlonton
Head of Curriculum
Previously Black Swan Data. Heads curriculum at iO-Sphere.
Jonas Torres
AI Engineer & Data Coach
20+ years in data & AI, from Accenture to Director at Dialpad, and a frontier-LLM trainer. Has coached hundreds into data careers.
Abdul Mafe
Data & AI Coach
Enterprise data governance at Three Network.
Martin Stanley
Data Analytics Coach
Data analytics leadership across consulting, retail and telco (BT Group).
Open coaching roles
Data & AI Coach
Permanent, full-time or part-time. London hybrid or remote across the UK.
£40,000 to £60,000 plus bonus, depending on experience
View role and apply →Data Analytics Coach, London
Four-month contract, PAYE. London hybrid.
£13,500 to £20,000 for the contract (£40k to £60k annualised), depending on experience
View role and apply →Data Analytics Coach, Oxford
Four-month contract, PAYE. Mostly remote.
£11,500 to £15,000 for the contract (£35k to £45k annualised)
View role and apply →
No role that fits right now?
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