4: Building an Alliance
Recap on our latest event, sneak preview of the Alliance we're building and interesting events and opportunities to check out!
🗞️ What’s happening at CiC
Recap on our latest event: Employee Resource Groups - who’s it helping?
Some participants shared a few of their favourite takeaways depicted below.
For those who attended our event, we’d love to hear your feedback. Please share your feedback here.
What we’re building…
CiC intends to launch a coalition of ERGs / Employee Advocacy Groups that support people of colour, to drive collective impact across Australian workplaces. This would involve facilitating a community where people involved in racial, ethnic and cultural equity initiatives in the workplace can connect regularly. Three pillars will drive this alliance:
Building Community - Regular community-building events
Shared Growth - Resources and learnings to promote shared growth
Collective Impact - Catalyse impact across a wide range of organisations
Watch this space for more updates. If this is something you’re keen on getting involved in, send us an email at careersincolour@gmail.com.
📣 Things to check out
Robert Breunig, Nu nu Win and David Hansell from the Crawfood School of Public Policy, Australian National University have released a Working Paper on ‘Modelling Australian Public Service careers’. Using data from the census, non-English speaking background staff hold only 7% of Senior Executive (SES) positions in the APS and the AFR has reported that Asians face a ‘promotional penalty’ in the APS.
Diversity Council Australia, Settlement Services International and Chief Executive Women’s project RISE (Realise.Inspire.Support.Energise) is underway, working with Arup and the University of Technology Sydney to help culturally and racially marginalised women progress in the workplace after a landmark DCA report identified intersectional barriers were locking them out of leadership positions.
The Victorian Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector has launched Victoria’s first ever intersectionality report ‘Intersectionality at work: Building a baseline on compounded gender inequality in the Victorian Public Sector.’
Hue: Colour the Conversation has launched an eLearning module, ‘101: Understanding Race and Racism,’ designed to provide you with the knowledge, vocabulary and skills necessary to address issues of racism.
🗓 More events and opportunities
Monash Council is holding a series of Resilience Against Racism Workshops in November, including rebuilding your strong cultural identity, and exploring intersectionality: racism and sexism at work and study.
11 Nov: Women of Colour Melbourne are hosting their annual gathering. This year’s theme is on ‘Leveraging our diverse cultural strengths for collective justice' with exciting keynote speaker Kemi Nekvapil and a welcome address by Leila Gurruwiwi. Tickets available here.
15 Nov: The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute will launch the 2023 Mapping Social Cohesion Report.
The Australian Public Service Commission and the National Indigenous Australian Agency has co-sponsored the ‘SES 100 initiative’, which aims to increase the number of First Nations SES leaders across the APS from 54 to 100. The roles will be advertised on the APS Jobs website from 6 November until 17 December 2023.
That’s all for now. Until next month 👋
