Our people

Our people make us what we are.

Without the determination, skill and perseverance of DAL’s people, the astonishing Sudanese success story that is DAL Group could never have taken place.

DAL Group views its 5,500 employees as a large family working together across a range of sectors and activities. The Group is an equal opportunities employer, actively seeking to provide employees with a working environment that: encourages diversity; stimulates innovation, teamwork, learning and improvement; and rewards individual performance solely on merit. We expect our employees to seek excellence, act with integrity and display professionalism in everything they do.

We are continuously striving to improve Human Resources (HR) effectiveness within the Group to combine delivery of best practices with important daily HR operations. Individual companies look after their own day to day operations, supported by a number of group wide strategic initiatives. These include:

• Strategic Workforce Planning – ensuring the organisation has access to the necessary resources to fulfil the strategic business objectives. This includes identifying and monitoring key workforce information and modelling future requirements, the results of which inform our other initiatives.
• Talent Management – focusing on recruitment and retention of employees, succession planning, and our graduate and future leaders’ programmes. DAL Group practices open recruitment based on merit. Jobs are advertised internally and also on our dedicated careers website.
• Learning and Development (L&D) – enhancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes of employees through a range of activities from specialist courses and on the job training, to work shadowing and mentoring. DAL Group has invested in a world class L&D centre to ensure its employees receive the best possible professional development.
• Performance Management and Rewards – creating and maintaining a performance management and appraisal system that encourages a performance driven culture, with rewards based on performance.
• Policies and Procedures – ensuring a single set of best practice policies and procedures exist across the Group.

We believe in investing in the youth of Sudan and have a number of activities in place, including: month long work placement opportunities for graduates, university and vocational education students; a celebration of the top ten high school grades with Sayga’s ‘Al Awaal’ brand (Al Awaal means ‘the first’ in English) and a recently launched DAL Group graduate trainee scheme, whereby fourteen graduates (selected from more than 900 applications) have joined our specially designed two year programme exposing them to a variety of businesses and roles across the Group.