Tech company in international development seeks international person of mystery who wants to change the world through better management and use of data.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Your job will be to boost the impact of international development projects by helping them use our data management software. You’ll have opportunities to travel internationally. This will involve:
Learning our data management software inside and out
Explaining how to wrangle information to fit our platform
Learning to instruct clients (onsite and remotely) to help them sort out their metrics and workflows to track progress
Training on our software and providing ongoing support
Developing help materials
Public speaking about our work
Once you’re a badass at all that, you’ll work with our data guru and sales lackey to scale up our training and implementations. We want to be the industry standard for data management. Do we need a consulting wing? A college of data? You’ll figure it out.
We’re looking for someone with big ideas who will also sweat the small stuff – someone who is exceptionally attentive to details and prepared to work hard. You’ll initially need to be in DC, but once you are up to speed, you’ll work when and where you want.
WHO WE ARE
We make DevResults, a web-based application for data management in international development. Our software is used by nonprofits and government agencies in over 60 countries. We intend for DevResults to revolutionize the way international development programs manage their work and measure their results.
We’re all good at what we do, and we enjoy working together. You’ll have autonomy and respect from day one. No regulations or hierarchy, just a lot of interesting and challenging work to get done. We’re a small team – you will be our ninth team member – so we all wear many hats.
We’re bootstrapped, we’re profitable, and we pay well. We’ve been solidly profitable for over a decade and are now entering a rapid growth phase. We offer great benefits including profit sharing, vacation, health insurance and retirement. We believe the best way to create a company is to hire smart, hard-working people and treat them very well.
We love what we do; we take pride in our work; we enjoy having clear real-world impact. This is an exciting time to be working at the intersection of data and international development, and we’re enthusiastic about DevResults’ current and future success.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Experience with developing management policies and practices
Good: You solve organizational problems. You have professional experience communicating with clients. You run meetings like a ninja. A meeting ninja.
Big Plus: You’ve planned and implemented ideas that reduced bureaucracy. You’ve scaled up an existing initiative or helped develop a consulting service. You’ve written successful proposals. You have eaten meeting ninjas for breakfast.
You’re comfortable with spreadsheets, quantitative information, and abstract thinking
Good: Solid Excel skills. You’re the kind of person who took advanced math in high school even if you forgot it. You can think through what information really means and can tell a story with data.
Big Plus: Making awesome graphs and infographics. Some familiarity with relational data.
Expertise in Training or Teaching
Good: You’re excellent at explaining things—and you love it. You have an eye for design and experience with creating training and help materials.
Big Plus: Your background includes curriculum development, training, or developing training programs for technical subjects. You’ve worked as an educator in challenging environments.
Experience in a developing country
Good: Time spent traveling in remote and uncomfortable places. You’ll need to be able to travel anywhere in the world several times per year for 1-2 weeks at a time.
Big Plus: Professional work history with a donor (USAID, World Bank, DFID, BMGF, etc.) or on a donor-funded program. Serious M&E experience – results frameworks, indicators, data collection, analysis, reporting. Professional-level proficiency in a language besides English.
How to apply
Email us at jobs@devresults.com and convince us that (a) this is the job of your dreams and (b) you’re a great match for this job and this company. If you have an updated resume handy that’s fine, but don’t let that hold you back from getting in touch with us. We just need evidence that you’re awesome and that we were meant for each other. (For example: your LinkedIn profile, your blog, links or documents showing work you’ve done, glowing recommendations.)