First Nations Strategic Pursuits Lead

2 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia AECOM Full time

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

AECOM’s Reconciliation Journey

**Job Description**:
Working from within the Strategic Pursuit team with close connection to the First Nations Engagement team, as the First Nations Strategic Pursuits Lead your primary responsibility will be to bring First Nations expertise to AECOM’s strategic pursuits, in compliance with client requirements, resulting in AECOM projects that are culturally informed and deliver improved social value outcomes for First Nations communities.

Working at all times to care for Country, your work will enable the preparation of strategic pursuits and delivery of projects that maintain cultural integrity and improve the lives of the people from the communities in which we work.

+ Work as a First Nations Subject Matter Expert in support of bid preparation for AECOM Australia, including developing and maintaining relationships with First Nations suppliers, training providers and employment agencies.

+ Maintain the probity of First Nations intellectual and cultural property as it is embedded into AECOM Australia workstreams.

+ Maintain consistency of approach to the reconciliation goals of the organisation and be an advocate for First Nations Engagement Team agenda including RAP Pillars

**Qualifications**:
+ High level of cultural competency and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and communities.

+ Established stakeholder engagement skills with a variety of stakeholders

+ Exposure to Indigenous Procurement Plans

+ Exposure to Indigenous Participation Plans

+ Working knowledge of Aboriginal Land Councils, Aboriginal Corporations, Native Title legislation, First Nations procurement, Reconciliation Action Plans

+ To perform this role, it is essential that the person identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

**ReqID**: J10105766

**Business Line**: Geography OH

**Business Group**: DCS

**Strategic Business Unit**: ANZ

**Career Area**: Marketing & Communications

**Work Location Model**: Hybrid


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