A commitment to best-practice inclusion
Our pillars of diversity
Our goal is to ensure equality of opportunity for both women and men to flourish and succeed. By proactively breaking down barriers, challenging bias, and focusing on a culture of inclusion we’re constantly working to ensure all employees at nbn have equal access to career advancement and leadership opportunities.
We are focused on increasing the representation of women across the business. This is supported by organisation-wide initiatives including:
- Clear gender targets with ongoing performance of these targets published in our annual report
- Identifying and developing emerging female leaders and high-potential talent across all business areas
- Women’s career development, mentoring and sponsorship programs
- Women’s networking forums
- Strong focus on achieving and maintaining Gender Pay Equity
- Opportunities for flexible working arrangements for all employees
- Unconscious bias and inclusion training for all employees
- Ensuring gender balanced recruitment shortlists and interview panels when hiring new employees
Partnerships
Ours is a workplace that strives to connect, support and celebrate awareness of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) employees and their allies.
We are actively building a culture that ensures everyone feels safe and comfortable to be their true and authentic selves at work each day. We are doing this through LGBTI inclusive people policies, our LGBTI inclusion eLearning module and celebrating days of significance such as International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
We have an active and growing network, Pride@nbn, to connect and support our staff. Our LGBTI inclusion efforts were recognised at the Australian Workplace Equality Index Awards 2021 where we received Gold Employer Status.
Support for transgender and gender diverse applicants throughout the recruitment process
We welcome applications from the LGBTI+ community to join the nbn workforce. We recognise that transgender and gender diverse applicants may have specific questions throughout the recruitment process. Although there’s no obligation to share your gender identity with us, if you choose to and would like support and assistance, applicants can contact Ross Wetherbee, Senior Manager Diversity and Inclusion at rosswetherbee@nbnco.com.au directly.
Alternatively, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at recruitment@nbnco.com.au or Pride Committee at Pride_Committee@nbnco.com.au.
At nbn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace, which strives to support and enable employees with disability.
We are proud to have launched our Accessibility and Inclusion Plan 2019-2021, which aims to ensure people with disability feel valued, supported and included in our organisation.
The Plan outlines the steps nbn aims to take to implement our goals for the inclusion of people with disability as employees, customers and communities.
The Plan will be part of our work culture; from the recruitment process, the first day with us and beyond. Another goal is to positively impact our consumers, as we work together as one team to focus on accessibility across our business.
A key part of our commitment is our partnership with the Australian Network on Disability. The partnership with expert advisors, while listening to our employees, we are continually striving to understand the needs of our people and improve the accessibility of our workplace for all.
Making adjustments to support you
nbn aims to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process for people with disability or accessibility needs. We know this might involve making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including alternative formats, so we can get to know you in the best possible way.
Once you join nbn, if there are reasonable adjustments that need to be made to your workplace or workstation so you can perform your best, we’ll work with you to develop an appropriate solution.
If you have any support or access requirements, please contact the nbn Talent Acquisition Team at the time of application via recruitment@nbnco.com.au so we can assist you through the recruitment process.
Employee networks
Ready to work on something big?
We are proud of our inclusive, supportive and unique culture and we encourage people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to help us to bridge the digital divide and connect Australia. Our commitment to offering flexible work conditions, development and advancement opportunities and truly meaningful work makes nbn a rewarding and energising environment to work in. As an employee at nbn you have the opportunity to help us on our journey and make a real difference to the fabric of our communities.
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