Survey Research Lead Instruments, Sampling & Field Quality

About

VK Capital Ventures Inc. runs Travel Villa Kitchen - a Houston chef co-op, cooking-class and private-dinner company (plus Six Rows Coffee and Farm2Chef, our farmer-chef marketplace) - and the Community Protein Pool, our Harris County food-access program. We are Human First service practitioners: healthy communication and people who are happy and emotionally safe in service is how we work. Our household data feeds a matching model, grant reports, and investor diligence - it has to be grant-grade. We are hiring a Survey Research Lead to own the instruments, sampling, and field-pool quality that make it so.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the survey instruments: Protein Pool household survey, market-day intercept surveys, and intake verification scripts - bilingual English/Spanish by design
• Own sampling: target ZIP selection, completion targets, and representativeness checks for the Survey Taker pool
• Run field-pool QA: same-week review of completes, backlog discipline (nothing older than 48 hours), and retraining where data quality slips
• Validate field data against program models - your data is what the Protein Pool matching model is checked against
• Keep the data intimate-data-safe: no personal identifiers beyond what an instrument collects, ever
• Report methods and data quality into the weekly snapshot and grant reporting, in writing a funder can audit

Qualifications

• Survey research experience: instrument design, sampling, and field operations (BLS anchor occupation: Survey Researchers)
• Experience supervising or QA-ing field/interviewer teams
• Bilingual English/Spanish strongly preferred - our instruments serve Spanish-speaking households
• Data-cleaning and documentation discipline (methods written down, reproducible)
• Houston-based; familiarity with Harris County neighborhoods a strong plus

Schedule

Full-time, standard business hours plus market-day field coverage as the survey calendar requires.

Benefits

• $60,000/yr base (planning base from the hiring-suite budget, below the BLS Survey Researchers median of $63,380)
• Your instruments become the evidentiary base of a food-access program and its grant reports
• A written role SOP and growth path from day one