Research Fellow (1 year contract)

The SUSS Sustainability Committee is seeking a Research Fellow to support a project on assessment of organisational maturity in social impact. The project aims to design and validate a Social Impact Maturity and Effectiveness Framework-a comprehensive tool for assessing how businesses and non-profit organisations in Singapore create and enhance social impact. Using mixed methods (focus groups, surveys, and interviews), the study will develop self-assessment, stakeholder, and independent assessor evaluation instruments that help organisations benchmark and strengthen their social sustainability practices.

The appointment is expected to last one year, subject to satisfactory performance and project needs.

Job Scope:

• Conduct literature reviews on social sustainability and impact measurement frameworks
• Support data collection, including recruiting and coordinating expert panels, scheduling and conducting focus groups, transcribing qualitative interviews, and administering surveys
• Identify and liaise with organisations, associations, and companies to participate in the study, including outreach to potential survey respondents
• Perform data cleaning, analysis, and synthesis
• Contribute to drafting of report, visualisation of findings, and preparation of conference and journal papers
• Provide administrative and project management support (tracking milestones, developing interview and participation communication protocols, and IRB correspondence)