Community Team

The Community team consists of Alex Connolly and Oisin Ralph, members of the team with a natural affinity for exploring ways to improve our local communities and wider society.

What we’ve achieved to date

Recruitment

Over the past few months we’ve been working on policies and processes that make our recruitment process more equitable and inclusive. Being more cognisant of our audiences, language and the coding within language, implicit biases and ensuring we hold ourselves to the standards of being an equal opportunity employer.

We have achieved this through the introduction of:

• Inclusive Language & Recruitment Policy

  While this is something we would have been conscious of over the years, within the past year year we’ve put together a formal policy that outlines more efficiently how we should conduct ourselves in our external communications.

  This policy will provide a guideline to ensure that all new job listings will be analysed for inclusive language and equitable requirements, with our goal of eliminating any unintentional barriers to employment. We will continuously review and update our job listings to ensure they are fair and unbiased.

• EDI Statement

  We have implemented a statement to be included within all of our job listing descriptions that outlines our commitment to cultivating an equitable, inclusive and diverse workforce and culture.

• Blind Portfolio Review

  The introduction of this process removes any and all identifiable factors of the potential applicant before being presented to the respective hiring team. These include, but are not limited to, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, etc.

Civic Engagement

Being more involved in our communities, and being in a position to give back to these communities or wider society is something that is quite important to us. As a result of this we have:

• Outlined potential initiatives to encourage team members to be more involved in in Civic & Community Engagement opportunities.
• Designated 72 hours annually to be donated to Civic & Community Engagement opportunities that align with our values, as a means of enabling our team to be more pro-active and involved. These hours are spread across our team for anyone to use.
• We’ve started tracking these initiatives through Float (where we plan our projects) and created a space on Notion for team members to share their experiences.