Eligibility
Who can apply.
An individual with a demonstrated record of leading technical work and developing others.
- Engineering managers, technical leads, principal engineers, research leads and founders can be eligible when the evidence is about their leadership.
- The entry is personal. A company’s results are relevant only where the applicant’s decisions can be identified.
Achievement recognised
What the entry must show.
This category recognises individuals who have led technical work and developed other people. A job title is not enough. The entry needs decisions, delivery and the effect on both the work and the people involved.
Evidence required
- Examples of technical direction the applicant set or changed.
- How work was delivered, including a difficult trade-off.
- How other people were developed: mentoring, review, staffing or technical teaching.
- Results that can be checked, with the applicant’s part distinguished from the organisation’s.
- Do not include employer secrets, confidential third-party material, or personal data about other people.
Assessment criteria
How the entry is read.
These are the published criteria for this category. They are not a claim that an independent judging panel is already appointed.
Leadership of technical work and of people30%
Direction of technical decisions, and evidence that other practitioners grew or were able to do better work.
Execution20%
Whether the led work was delivered, sustained or responsibly stopped, with the constraints made clear.
Innovation in the way the work was led15%
A change in method, structure or technical approach that was the applicant’s to make.
Measurable results20%
Outcomes for the system, the product or the team, stated with a basis for the figures or observations.
Supporting evidence15%
Material that lets a reviewer test the account, without requiring confidential personnel records.
Process and fee
From application to a decision.
01Application
Submit the application for this category on this website, naming the work and your own contribution. Submitting the form does not charge the applicant. Fee-payment instructions will follow before evaluation begins.
02Evidence review
The submission is checked for whether the evidence can be considered. Incomplete, confidential or unsupported claims may need further material, or may be set aside.
03Evaluation
The entry is read against the published criteria and weights for its category. That reading is what the US$200 evaluation fee covers, when collection is open.
04Decision
An award is made only when the standard is met. A category may have one recipient, more than one, or none. A decision that no award is made is a completed assessment.
Entry evaluation fee: US$200 per entry, per category.
The US$200 evaluation fee covers the administration and assessment of your entry. Payment does not guarantee shortlisting or an award. Entries may be unsuccessful following assessment.
The evaluation fee is not refundable solely because an entry is unsuccessful, subject to applicable law and the published cancellation and refund terms.
Each category is a separate assessed entry. Entering more than one category requires its own application and its own US$200 evaluation fee.
SASACO membership is a separate programme. Membership does not influence award scores, shortlisting or selection, and it does not guarantee recognition.
The detailed cancellation and refund terms are not published yet, so live charges stay off. A successful payment, when collection is enabled, means the entry is paid for assessment. It does not grant an award.
Integrity
- Submit truthful information, and only work you have authority to submit.
- Disclose any relevant conflict, including a close connection with SASACO.
- Confidential or unsupported claims may need further evidence before they can be considered.
- A category may have no recipient if the published standard is not met.
- This is a SASACO-administered recognition programme. It does not confer professional accreditation, employment, funding, immigration outcomes or indexed publication.