First Nations Engagement Lead

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations Peoples and businesses.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

**What you can expect from AECOM**

We will give you 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, where your integrity and individuality are championed’.

We provide 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

**Job Description**:
**What you will bring to AECOM**

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

The First Nations Inclusion Lead is responsible for establishing and implementing a strategy to advance First Nations representation and inclusion within AECOM Australia which includes building and maintain meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders, organisations and communities.

This role will support AECOM’s leaders, through education and influence, to create a culture where First Nations people feel their unique attributes, personality, traits, characteristics, skills, experience, culture, and background are valued at work, and above all, they feel respected and included at AECOM.

Working with internal and external stakeholders, including our People and Culture Team, other key First Nations roles, our RAP Committee, and Reconciliation Australia, the First Nations Inclusion Lead is responsible for the delivery of our current RAP, and for the development of future RAPs or alternate instruments to advance AECOM’s First Nations representation and inclusion.

**Qualifications**:

- ** 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.**:

- 8+ years of experience in leading First Nations agendas in corporate environments
- Prior experience in implementing a RAP in organisations
- Demonstrated understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures
- Change management skills and ability to influence stakeholders at various stages of adoption
- Strong internal and external advocacy for First Nations participation and engagement
- Demonstrated strong commercial and business acumen, balancing desired agendas with organisational drivers

Additional Information

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate to lead the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join us and let’s get started.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.