SANKOFA CONSULTING ENGINEERS is built on a time-tested foundation of excellent leadership, exceptional talent, and drive; with a team of ambitious, high achieving individuals, passionate about solving complex challenges across the wide engineering spectrum. Our continual success has been a direct result of selfless service from our team of dedicated staff. We remain committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff and recognize that our continued success depends on hiring and retaining high quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and the right mix of skills. SANKOFA CONSULTING ENGINEERS is a great place to work, for both early career, midcareer, and seasoned professionals. We offer a wide variety of interesting positions in a professional environment and are in constant pursuit of high-end talent from diverse backgrounds to join our team and enable us better deliver on our mandate.
By choosing to work with SANKOFA, you have the opportunity to shape your career in a steadily growing, top tier engineering consulting firm, as you shape your career growth in new high-level roles and opportunities that open up as we expand our project portfolio, hence ascend to higher echelons within the firm. We offer employment opportunities to professionals from various backgrounds as Engineering, Surveying, Plumbing, Social Sciences, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Communication and Public Relations, among others.
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Our human resource strategy is guided by a set of sound human resource policies, aimed not only at ensuring total compliance with the labour laws and taxation policies, but also enhancing our ability to attract, retain, and motivate talent. We undertake staff career planning and development, ensuring continuous growth, promoting personal and professional development, and ultimately contributing to a stable workforce. Our recruitment process begins with receiving of applications, longlisting and shortlisting, interviewing and assessing best fit, running pre-employment background checks for successful candidates i.e. reference checks and anti-terrorism checks, notification of unsuccessful candidates through regret emails, and finally contract signing and on boarding of the successful candidates.
Under exceptional circumstances, some recruitments are done through headhunting. This includes cases where we need experts and intelligentsia with specialized skills and knowledge, or situations where we have to fill a vacant position in the shortest time possible to avoid project delays for projects with highly defined timelines. In such cases, we opt for quick recruitments by reviewing CVs in our applicant database, either from our previous applicant pool for related positions, or from qualified candidates that have previously cold emailed us their CVs for potential future job consideration. All in all, we make extraordinary efforts to attract, develop, and retain the best professionals in our fields of expertise.
Highly qualified, experienced, and committed staff and consultants represent SANKOFA’s most valuable resource. Effective recruitment and selection are therefore fundamental to the success of our firm. Our clearly laid out recruitment process is aimed at ensuring we have an efficient hiring process to;
Application.
Selection and Recruitment.
During our recruitment and selection process, the Recruitment Team ensures that;
During the application period, candidates have the liberty to contact SANKOFA to ask for any relevant information, or seek guidance on any clarifications through any formal channels provided. All documentation submitted to SANKOFA during the application process will be held privately and confidentially. Canvassing leads to automatic disqualification, and as such, candidates are strongly advised against using this avenue for canvassing reasons.
Headhunting.
Where appropriate, when the skills required are for highly specialised positions; the position is time sensitive; or in instances where open recruitment has not been successful, headhunting may be considered. Headhunting is where someone meeting the personal specification can be approached directly and encouraged to apply for the position. This can include individuals who are on SANKOFA’s consultancy database/roster, whose skill sets match the position; individuals known to SANKOFA through previous or current projects; or individuals found through targeted recruitment searches.
At SANKOFA, we maintain a high-performance culture, and as such we remain laser focused on staff training and development. We offer on-going training and skills development to ensure our staff are always equipped with the latest industry skills and can ably deliver to client satisfaction. We are also committed to providing opportunities for further education, learning, and development activities for our staff under our continuing professional development (CPD) program. The rationale for placing premium on workforce training is to ensure our staff are well equipped with the latest skills and knowledge to offer world class services for our clients. We ensure that our staff never stop learning, but undergo a continual learning process in workshops, in-house trainings, and through hands-on experience to learn the latest domain concepts and theories, enabling better service delivery to our clients.
Regarding staff development, we conduct routine management consulting style career reviews i.e., performance and development reviews (PDRs) and appraisals for our staff. We also provide constant actionable feedback on staff performance and development areas via routine check-ins with line managers, as well as 360-degree feedback surveys. Altogether, these enable staff get regular feedback on their performance and any development areas to prepare them for higher roles in our steadily growing portfolio of projects.
Conclusively, SANKOFA provides numerous opportunities and support to ensure staff are able to grow and develop their professional skills and world-class knowledge and skills in their respective professional fields.
SANKOFA is an equal opportunity employer and abides by principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Our commitment to diversity includes the recognition that our consulting mission is best advanced by the participation and contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and culture. We do not discriminate employees or applicants based on gender, tribe, ethnicity, religion, disability, creed, marital status, age, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the applicable law. Selection of candidates is based on individual merit; hence the best candidates are appointed for any vacancies, based on the quality and strength of their applications and submissions made during interview processes. Our meritocracy-based hiring systems deploy the use of competency-based interviews. We greatly value diversity and maintain a culture based on camaraderie, support, and respect, ensuring an inclusive environment where all employees are engaged, thrive, and feel a sense of belonging.
We are a premier engineering consulting firm based in Uganda. We offer services across a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines, such as electrical and power engineering, water and sanitation engineering, civil and building engineering, surveying and geomatics engineering, mining and petroleum engineering, among others.
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