Delivering on gender equity

Our purpose is empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future. This includes the future of our people, and it is why we continue to invest in and support their career paths. We provide a wide variety of role and business-specific training, and have multiple development offerings including:

• Sponsorship and Development Programmes: that support talented employees by matching them with senior leaders to support their development.
• Development and mobility: employees can access opportunities to work across business areas and in different geographies.
• Buddy Programme: pairing all new joiners with a buddy from their team and offering an additional buddy, chosen by the employee, to help give people a sense of belonging from the very beginning.
• Inclusive Leadership Masterclasses: supporting our leaders to actively create inclusive environments for all colleagues.
• Executive and Director Leadership Programmes: supporting our director population globally to enhance their sense of accountability for creating an inclusive culture, with increased motivation and skill in empowering, developing, retaining, and leading diverse people and teams.
• We also provide a range of group specific development programmes to equip employees to succeed in their chosen field.

Investing in our current and future talent is a key priority at Macquarie. We are continuously improving our approach to recruiting, to remove bias and focus on creating shortlists of diverse candidates, which in turn, builds a more diversified workforce.

We also provide a range of Early Careers Programmes:

• Junior Associate Programme: provides careers access to university students from under-represented communities and low socio-economic backgrounds with valuable work experience at Macquarie, two days per week whilst they complete their degree. It is delivered in conjunction with several Macquarie Group Foundation partners.
• Rise to It with Macquarie Programme: provides full university maintenance and tuition fees, as well as offering hands-on work experience at Macquarie, to Year 12 students from low socio-economic backgrounds and under-represented communities.
• Women in Business Series: aims to attract more women to apply for roles in Macquarie.  
• Intern and Graduate Mentoring Programmes: provide additional support and tools to help our graduate and intern hires succeed in their career with us.

We are committed to helping our employees manage their care responsibilities and provide a range of benefits and support for parents and carers.

• We believe achieving gender equity means supporting all parents, so we offer up to six months of paid leave, regardless of gender. Secondary Carer Leave is available to all parents with secondary childcare responsibility for a new child, including through adoption.
• We offer one-to-one parental leave coaching that is provided before, during and after taking time off from work. This coaching is designed to support both new and existing working parents transition from, and back to, their professional lives.
• Coaching is also provided to managers of those going on leave to ensure they are equipped to provide support.
• We offer a phased return to support transitions back to work after Primary Carer Leave, with up to 12 paid transition days in the first 12 weeks of returning to work.
• We provide all our employees with emergency access to childcare support, nurseries, childminders, holiday clubs and elder-care specialists when required (UK specific).

• We are committed to hybrid working for the long term. That means most of our people balance time spent working in the office and remotely. Everyone is empowered to work together flexibly in a way that works for their team, also taking advantage of the benefits of coming together in person.
• The wellbeing of our people is a priority, and we provide a comprehensive range of initiatives and benefits, designed to equip our people with the tools and resources they need to own their health and wellbeing. 
• We provide one wellbeing day and two days of volunteering leave for all staff annually – in addition to traditional annual leave.
• We provide support and advice for under-served areas of healthcare that can make a big impact on all of our day-to-day lives, including menopause, fertility, pregnancy and early parenthood, men’s health and women’s health (UK specific).
• We understand that we all have lives outside of work. Often, we can balance the two, but every now and again something tips the balance, and we need a bit of extra support. Our Wellbeing Ambassadors are colleagues to talk with - they are someone who understands because they have been there.