We want everyone to know that Aurecon is a place where they belong, where they feel connected, where they can develop and have equal access to opportunities.
Where each person can celebrate what makes them unique and celebrate the communities to which they belong. Where the stories of our colleagues enrich us, and we can actively encourage and support one another.
We will lead in creating a new experience of work, which honours our people, their uniqueness, and their personal circumstances. Whether that means working part time, taking leave to return to country (as an Australian Indigenous person), feeling comfortable disclosing a disability, working flexibly, or easily using the name or pronoun of your same-sex partner.
A workplace where our people feel valued, have a sense of belonging, can contribute without fear of discrimination or retaliation, and have equal access to opportunities.
We have prioritised diversity, equity, and inclusion in our organisational strategy. Having leaders who believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is an important human rights and business issue, is driving change in our culture. Through inclusive language and behaviours, we are creating a culture that:
Our focus is on leadership, policies, language and behaviour, and targets. That is how we reach our diversity and inclusion commitments. Through collaborative ways of working, and the actions and words of our leaders and our people we bring our policies – which are explicitly inclusive – to life.
Diversity is a collection of individual attributes that can include demographic diversity, cognitive diversity, personal and professional background and lived experience.
Diversity comes in all shapes and forms. We welcome all dimensions of diversity. Everyone is unique, and at Aurecon, we respect that difference and value each person for their uniqueness. Our differences are our strength.
We believe innovation is essential to building an organisation ready to capture the future; and to thrive, a culture of innovation needs both demographic diversity, and diversity of thought.
We have built our diversity and inclusion commitments on a foundation of integrity, equality, and respect for people. Without our people, our Blueprint strategy is simply words on a page. By living and applying the Aurecon Attributes and Aurecon Principles in the way we work, we create an environment where our people are as diverse as the clients and communities we serve and where they can do their best work and flourish.
We have interventions in place to disrupt systemic bias and to create equitable access to opportunities to ensure equality of outcomes for everyone. Our initiatives and policies support our culture through:
In Asia, Aurecon has implemented a programme aimed at building the diversity and inclusion culture through education, training and featuring stories of various individuals on internal platforms; and at achieving a fair representation across gender and ethnicity in the workforce across all Asia offices through recruitment, promotion and mentoring programmes.
To date, Asia has a healthy representation of its workforce across age groups and has a larger female population contributing to the Aurecon Asia business.
While we actively pursue diversity to complement each team and consider the widest possible definition of diversity, we currently focus our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workplace culture in three areas.
We aim to improve gender representation in our workforce and leadership, and to play our part in progressing gender equality. We do this for each Aurecon employee, for Aurecon, for our clients and for the communities in which we live, work and play.
Our focus is mostly on professional roles, technical roles, and leadership positions.
Aurecon holds an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). We use this citation ― received for our commitment to promoting gender equality in Australian workplaces ― as a framework for our gender equality strategy. While this is a journey, we continue to make progress on our goal to disrupt gendered expectations and norms and seek genuine choice and opportunity for all employees.
Aurecon is also a founding member of The Diversity Agenda in New Zealand. In February 2020, as part of our continual diversity and inclusion aspirations, we signed the Diversity Agenda’s Diversity Agenda Accord.
William Cox, Aurecon’s Chief Executive Officer and Louise Adams, Chief Operating Officer, are both members of industry-specific Champions of Change groups. William is a member of the STEM group and Louise is a member of the Consult Australia group.
We work towards gender equality by:
Aurecon is dedicated to improving LGBTI+ inclusion.
Aurecon deeply respects and acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia and New Zealand. Our commitment is to create sustainable and meaningful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, and Māori and Pasifika in New Zealand.
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