Overview
Conduct a national perception study on the implementation of community service as a non-custodial sentence in Uganda. The purpose is to assess public perceptions and stakeholder views, identify challenges and opportunities, and provide recommendations to enhance its effectiveness.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce an inception report detailing methodology, data collection tools, and work plan.
- Design and administer surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions.
- Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data on perceptions of community service.
- Provide a mechanism for data validation.
- Develop a Policy brief on Community Service implementation in Uganda.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of professional work experience in programme management, research, stakeholder management at the institutional level is required.
- Prior work experience in conducting surveys of a national nature is desirable.
- Proven experience in conducting development evaluations, socio-legal research, or access to justice sector evaluations is required.
- Strong knowledge of Uganda’s criminal justice system and community service framework is desirable.
- Strong research and coordination skills, analytical capacities and ability to synthesize complex inputs into coherent support is desirable.
- Knowledge of international standards in crime prevention and criminal justice—especially the Nelson Mandela Rules and the ability to integrate Sustainable Development Goals into programming is desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in criminology, law, social sciences, business administration, or related discipline is required.
- A first level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
