Terms of Reference for Performance Management Consultant

Overview

The Legal Aid Society (LAS) is a not for profit organization with a mission to connect vulnerable and disempowered end users of justice with effective and expedient services for the delivery of justice. LAS starts by listening to the voices of the vulnerable and disempowered within the legal system and combines their needs with the values of equity, fairness and inclusion to change the way we view and tackle present day challenges facing the attainment of justice in our society.

Assignment

The consultant is required to prepare a Gender Based Violence (GBV) Performance Management Framework for Criminal Justice System Actors keeping in mind the wider understanding of performance management.

Performance management is one of the critical areas in any successful organization. This applies equally to the criminal justice system. Through performance management, any institution seeks to maximize its productivity by establishing a system of measures by which to gauge performance levels of each element of institutions work. In the criminal justice system, it is not just about pursuing numbers and targets, a combination of doing the right things (‘priorities’), doing them well (‘quality’) and doing the right amount (‘quantity’). It is about assessing that the right actions are taken at the right time to improve the performance of the actors.

The Consultant must:

1. Meet with key actors in specific institutions in the Criminal Justice Systems and Women’s Rights & Criminal Justice actors to understand the expectations from the performance of the police
2. Create a Performance Management Framework with both quantitative and qualitative indicators for GBV.
3. Present the Performance Management Framework to key stakeholders for sharing and approval.

Requirements

The Consultant must:

• Have a Masters degree within a related subject, preferably law, criminology, human rights.
• Have 10 years of experience in human resource and/or the development sector
• Have experience in developing performance management systems and/or indicators for performance management
• Preferably been involved in performance management or review
• Preferably worked with actors in the criminal justice system including the police, prosecution and judiciary