Learning & Development Specialist

Encord
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Education & TrainingExperience: 3-6 yearsSkills: ["Facilitation","Cross-functional communication","Execution","Analytical thinking","Entrepreneurial mindset"]

Design and deliver training that turns annotation guidelines and client specifications into teachable modules for a distributed workforce. Apply learning-science principles to manage cognitive load, scaffold instruction, and use worked examples and spaced retrieval. Facilitate live sessions, build criterion-referenced assessments tied to operational readiness, coach Human Data Program Managers, and continuously measure ramp time and quality improvements.

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Learning & Development Specialist

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Job Summary

Design and deliver training that turns annotation guidelines and client specifications into teachable modules for a distributed workforce. Apply learning-science principles to manage cognitive load, scaffold instruction, and use worked examples and spaced retrieval. Facilitate live sessions, build criterion-referenced assessments tied to operational readiness, coach Human Data Program Managers, and continuously measure ramp time and quality improvements.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Education & Training
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Turn client specifications and annotation guidelines into modular, sequenced training material using worked examples, edge-case libraries, and failure-case analysis.
  • •Design instruction using learning-science principles to manage cognitive load, scaffold and fade support, and apply spaced retrieval.
  • •Run live training sessions daily during project ramps for distributed cohorts, adjusting instruction when concepts don’t land.
  • •Create criterion-referenced assessments that determine readiness and set pass thresholds with Quality Systems Lead.
  • •Coach Human Data Program Managers and partner with Product on guidance inside the platform; measure programme impact on quality and throughput.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Formal grounding in education, learning science, or instructional design (degree/postgraduate/teaching qualification or equivalent professional training).
  • •3–6 years designing and delivering training in an operational environment where training was measured against production outcomes.
  • •Demonstrable live facilitation to adult learners, remotely and at cohort scale, not just one-to-one coaching.
  • •Built curriculum and assessment from scratch, including assessments that discriminate between competent and not.
  • •Experience teaching non-specialist adults, ideally across languages, geographies, and prior education levels.
Experience:3-6 years
Skills:FacilitationCross-functional communicationExecutionAnalytical thinkingEntrepreneurial mindset
Certifications:CELTA

Company Brief

Encord
Provides a computer vision data platform for labeling, dataset management, and model evaluation, enabling teams to build, validate, and monitor ML models with collaboration and tooling for high-quality annotated data.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2019
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