We are proud of our 11-year-long achievement of the Employer of Choice citation, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to achieving gender equality in the workplace.
We strive to lead the infrastructure sector in gender diversity through transparent policy commitments, explicit targets, and substantial investment in frameworks supporting women's careers at all stages:
- Flexible working culture: we're building a culture of flexibility, trust and performance. We offer flexible, hybrid work options to support our people to find the balance they need to thrive and deliver their best for their team and clients.
- Inclusion training: our culture is open and inclusive, nurturing diversity with an engaging and comprehensive learning and development program, covering topics including unconscious bias, LGBTQ+, and First Nations knowledge to build awareness, understanding, and capability across the organisation.
- mCircles program: our mCircles groups provide a supportive platform for women at AECOM to connect, build networks, engage in peer-to-peer learning and share personal experiences.
- Advocate Sponsorship program: we support high-performing emerging female leaders by partnering them with members of AECOM’s Australia and New Zealand Leadership Team and providing access to networks, strategic alliances, and opportunities. Informal sponsorship relationships continue beyond the program throughout the individual’s career, prompting two-way learning around the lived experiences of AECOM women.
- Consult Australia Champions of Change: we collaborate with other Australian consulting organisations to drive industry change, promote best practices for gender equity, and create more diverse and inclusive workplaces.
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Want to find out our commitment to diversity? Check out our President, Lara Poloni's conversation with Construction Dive. In this article, Lara gives advice to women considering construction as a career:
"I always encourage women, regardless of their career level, to back themselves and to start with saying “yes” to opportunities when they arise, even when it’s daunting and the immediate reaction is to say “no.”
Why offering senior jobs part-time is a no - brainer, here from Lotte Hoekstra, Group Director for Energy here at AECOM;
Why offering senior jobs part-time is a ‘no-brainer’ (smh.com.au)
"Hoekstra, a group director for energy Victoria and SA at global infrastructure consultancy firm AECOM, has always felt supported by her managers about her decision not to work full-time, but she said without that support, her career progression would have stalled."
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