Field Consultant

Good Business Lab; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance

Travel allowance

Job summary

Good Business Lab in Bengaluru seeks a Field Consultant to support the planning, coordination, and daily execution of field operations for ongoing projects. You will work with field teams, enumerators, and factories to ensure timely data collection and smooth field activities.

The role requires 1–3 years in field operations or related areas, strong organizational and communication skills, and willingness to travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in field operations, survey implementation, social impact, research, or related field.
• Experience coordinating field teams, surveyors, community members, participants, or other field stakeholders.
• Good understanding of day-to-day field operations, including planning, follow-ups, field visits, and troubleshooting.
• Strong coordination and communication skills, with the ability to work with different teams and stakeholders.
• Comfortable taking ownership of tasks and resolving operational challenges independently.
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple activities and timelines.
• Comfortable working with Google Sheets/Excel and maintaining survey trackers and dashboards.
• Experience with SurveyCTO or other digital data-collection tools is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel to both urban and rural field locations as required.
• Good spoken and written English. Knowledge of Kannada and/or Hindi is an advantage.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow field protocols and maintain data quality.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and day-to-day execution of field activities across ongoing projects.
• Coordinate with enumerators and supervisors on daily field plans, targets, appointments, follow-ups, and operational requirements.
• Monitor survey progress through dashboards and trackers and flag gaps, delays, or unusual patterns.
• Maintain and regularly update survey dashboards, field trackers, and other operational sheets.
• Conduct field visits to both urban and rural units to monitor fieldwork and provide on-ground support.
• Coordinate with factories/units, participants, and other field stakeholders to ensure smooth field operations.
• Support participant tracking, appointment scheduling, follow-ups, and other activities required to complete surveys within timelines.
• Identify field-level challenges and work with the relevant teams to troubleshoot and resolve them.
• Support the onboarding, training, and day-to-day coordination of field staff and enumerators as required.
• Monitor field teams for adherence to survey protocols, consent procedures, and other study requirements.
• Support field logistics, including tablets, SIMs, survey materials, travel, and other operational requirements.
• Maintain clear documentation of field activities, issues, decisions, and follow-ups.
• Proactively communicate field risks, delays, and operational challenges to the Field Operations Manager and relevant project teams.
• Support the implementation of interventions and other project activities as required.
• Suggest and implement practical improvements to field processes based on on-ground learning.

Skills

Field operations

Coordination

Communication

Ownership

Organisational skills

Google Sheets/Excel

SurveyCTO

Willingness to travel

English proficiency

Kannada/Hindi (adv)

Tools

SurveyCTO

Google Sheets/Excel

Job description

About Us:

Good Business Lab is an independent, non-profit labor innovation and research company. We use rigorous academic research to prove that worker well-being programs have business impacts. Additionally, we develop market-ready, scalable products capable of providing dual benefits to workers and businesses. Our goal is to disrupt the traditional notion of business and show that worker well-being can be a part of core business strategy, or in other words, a good business practice.

The founders of the GBL are Ach Adhvaryu – Professor of Economics, Director of 21st Century India Center, School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego, Anant Ahuja – Director of ESG and Sustainability at Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd. (India’s largest Ready Made Garment firm), and Anant Nyshadham – Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Role Summary:

The Field Consultant will support the planning, coordination, and day-to-day execution of field operations for ongoing projects in Bengaluru. The role will work closely with the Field Operations and Research teams to ensure that field activities are planned well, teams are coordinated effectively, and data collection is completed smoothly and on time. The role will involve regular coordination with enumerators, supervisors, participants, factories/units, and other field stakeholders. The Field Consultant will also maintain survey dashboards and trackers, monitor field progress, identify gaps or operational challenges, and support the team in resolving issues on the ground. The person should be comfortable with field-based work, travelling to both urban and rural units as required, managing multiple field activities at the same time, and taking ownership of day-to-day operational challenges while ensuring adherence to study protocols and timelines.

Location: Bengaluru

Duration of engagement: 6 Months

Start Date: ASAP (applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis)

Who are you?

Ideally, you have:

• 1–3 years of experience in field operations, survey implementation, social impact, research, or a related field.
• Experience coordinating field teams, surveyors, community members, participants, or other field stakeholders.
• Good understanding of day-to-day field operations, including planning, follow-ups, field visits, and troubleshooting.
• Strong coordination and communication skills, with the ability to work with different teams and stakeholders.
• Comfortable taking ownership of tasks and resolving operational challenges independently.
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple activities and timelines.
• Comfortable working with Google Sheets/Excel and maintaining survey trackers and dashboards.
• Experience with SurveyCTO or other digital data-collection tools is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel to both urban and rural field locations as required.
• Good spoken and written English. Knowledge of Kannada and/or Hindi is an advantage.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow field protocols and maintain data quality.

What will you do?

• Support the planning and day-to-day execution of field activities across ongoing projects.
• Coordinate with enumerators and supervisors on daily field plans, targets, appointments, follow-ups, and operational requirements.
• Monitor survey progress through dashboards and trackers and flag gaps, delays, or unusual patterns.
• Maintain and regularly update survey dashboards, field trackers, and other operational sheets.
• Conduct field visits to both urban and rural units to monitor fieldwork and provide on-ground support.
• Coordinate with factories/units, participants, and other field stakeholders to ensure smooth field operations.
• Support participant tracking, appointment scheduling, follow-ups, and other activities required to complete surveys within timelines.
• Identify field-level challenges and work with the relevant teams to troubleshoot and resolve them.
• Support the onboarding, training, and day-to-day coordination of field staff and enumerators as required.
• Monitor field teams for adherence to survey protocols, consent procedures, and other study requirements.
• Support field logistics, including tablets, SIMs, survey materials, travel, and other operational requirements.
• Maintain clear documentation of field activities, issues, decisions, and follow-ups.
• Proactively communicate field risks, delays, and operational challenges to the Field Operations Manager and relevant project teams.
• Support the implementation of interventions and other project activities as required.
• Suggest and implement practical improvements to field processes based on on-ground learning.

The hiring process

We are glad you’re interested in applying for this role! Here is an excerpt of the screening process overview which can take up to 2-4 weeks (from the date of the application deadline).

1. Screening Round
2. Interview with hiring lead

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Our commitment to diversity

GBL is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

• We offer traditional monetary workplace benefits such as insurance and travel allowance.

We are a young and growing company making us the ideal ground for team members to experiment, take on dynamic roles, and grow with us.

We focus on happiness, output, and quality of work.

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