Applications for the role closed on Monday and Otago Cricket Association chief executive Ross Dykes said the response had been good.
A couple of hours before the deadline, Otago cricket had received 17 applications, including ''a number of good ones'', Dykes said.
There were applicants from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and ''elsewhere in the world''.
Dykes said the selection panel, which will include himself and OCA chairman Murray Hughes as well as a New Zealand Cricket representative and one other, will meet and decide on a short list before beginning the interviewing process.
''We are not going to rush it. There is no huge urgency. But for everybody's sake, we'd like to get a conclusion to this reasonably quickly.
''We are mindful of the fact not everybody is immediately accessible, so we don't want to commit ourselves to a time frame. But I'd like to think by the end of the month we'd be looking at getting things tidy.''
Interim Otago coach Nathan King and Otago Country coach Andy Sainsbury told the Otago Daily Times they intended to apply, when contacted for comment last month.
King assisted former coach Vaughn Johnson and has a New Zealand level three coaching certificate. He has not played first-class cricket but does not believe that will count against him.
Sainsbury, who has coached Otago Country for nine years, applied three years ago and said he would try again.
