For this position, we are looking for somebody to join our customer, training, and support team. A pillar of our growth and a core part of our mission is not just to provide a great product, but also to provide incredible support and service; we are growing our team to improve our efforts on that front. The ideal candidate will have prior experience collecting data in offline settings – and using SurveyCTO or Open Data Kit to do so.
Communications, capacity-building, and training experience is a plus, but not required. The same goes for experience in a start-up.
Responsibilities
- Strengthen our customer relationships and support our existing users by responding to user questions and support requests.
- Improve content for and monitor the SurveyCTO online support center and community forums.
- Lead or assist with webinars and in-person trainings for our turnkey services clients.
- Design, develop, and test SurveyCTO questionnaires for our turnkey services clients.
- Leverage knowledge of users’ experience with SurveyCTO to provide feedback to the product development team about usability bottlenecks, improvements, and feature requests.
Ideal candidate profile
- Very experienced using SurveyCTO, Open Data Kit, or similar platforms for collecting data offline, preferably in a developing-country context.
- Strong writer and communicator in English.
- Knowledge of the field research and/or international development spaces, especially monitoring and evaluation.
- Fast learner, able to independently problem-solve.
- Detail-oriented (e.g., cares that complement and compliment are different things; and notices that ‘$ {fieldname}’ has a space between the dollar sign and the curly bracket).
- Obsessive about doing high-quality work.
- Preference for working in low-structure, fast-paced start-up environment.
- Passionate about improving the world through one’s work.
- A big plus: strong writer and communicator in Hindi.
Location and hours
- Our preference is to fill this as a full-time position in our India office, based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
- However, we will consider excellent candidates elsewhere in India, for full-time telecommuting roles.
- We will also consider excellent candidates anywhere else in the world, on a contract basis. For the right candidates, we will even consider part-time arrangements.
Salary and benefits
- Dobility offers competitive salary and benefits packages. The specifics will depend on the location and the applicant’s level of prior experience.
About the organization
Dobility, the company behind SurveyCTO, was founded by Dr. Christopher Robert, an early tech entrepreneur and CTO who left technology to live overseas, train in economics and public policy, then research and teach at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His experience on the ground made him realize that the research and development sectors badly needed better technology to gather and manage data. Dobility’s mission is to help ensure that high-quality data is affordable, so that more decisions are based on good data (vs. bad data or no data).
Dobility differentiates itself in the market by providing unmatched reliability, affordability, and customer support. It is a fast-moving company with a motivated team that has spent time in the field to understand customers’ pain points first-hand.
About the product
SurveyCTO is a survey and data-collection platform designed for the specific demands of doing research in developing countries and other challenging settings. It can be used online or offline, on web, tablet, or phone. Most often it’s used by surveyors in the field to perform guided interviews with survey respondents (“Computer Assisted Personal Interviews”). It protects against fraud by recording how long surveys take, audio recording when suspicious behavior is flagged, and employing statistical algorithms to look for anomalies in the data. It’s also an extraordinarily flexible platform that allows for advanced survey logic, pre-loading existing data into survey questions, and automatically merging incoming data into back-office applications like Excel or Stata.
SurveyCTO has been used to collect millions of survey submissions in over 50 countries by organizations such as the World Bank, Save the Children, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action, and many others.
Apply
To apply, please fill out this short online form: https://use.surveycto.com/collect/surveycto_job_application
You will need to provide a resume/CV and a cover letter, and you will be asked a few short questions about your experience.
Please note that we are hiring for two positions.
