We aim to give our candidates a world-class experience by treating everyone with honesty, fairness, and respect. To monitor and track our progress, with anonymised data informing positive actions, we survey candidates throughout our recruitment process, and new hires, to check how we are performing in terms of your experience and to understand any opportunities for improvement. Find out more about our purpose and values here.

Mott MacDonald’s purpose is to ‘improve society by considering social outcomes in all we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities’. Our ongoing commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is fundamental to the realisation of this purpose; diverse teams will enable us to better understand and meet the needs of clients and communities across the globe, while more inclusive and equitable workplaces will provide fertile ground for learning, innovation and excellence.We recognise EDI is a strategic business priority with a clearly demonstrable business case and our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is demonstrated, in part, by our dedicated resources. We have subject matter experts in each of our geographical regions, led by a group head of inclusion and responsibility. The sponsor for our EDI work is our executive chair, Mike Haigh. Our employee resource groups – known as Advance groups – provide safe spaces for our colleagues to speak up, share their experiences and ideas and help us to continuously improve our approach to workplace EDI.Our equality, diversity and inclusion ambition is to lead our sector by example. We hope that in reading our annual reports and ‘Everyone’s Business: Our new global equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy’ you will want to join us knowing that our commitment to continuous improvement in this area is authentic. Our strategy is called Everyone’s Business because we believe that everyone will benefit from the time and energy, we invest in becoming more diverse, equitable and inclusive. The name also highlights that everyone in our business is accountable for driving our progress in this area.

This year we signed the Time to Change employer pledge, the main government supported campaign to end mental health stigma in the workplace, led by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. We are one of 500 organisations to sign the pledge and we have an action plan which makes us accountable to take forward a number of key principles and activities to foster a mentally healthy culture across the workforce.We’re committed to raising awareness of mental health and creating an inclusive workplace environment where all staff feel supported. Staff are also provided with advice for on the five ways of wellbeing, which aims to help people build resilience and manage their own mental health by taking positive action, building social connections and finding ways to cope that work for them.

For us sustainability is about using our own ingenuity to deliver lasting value for our clients, for the communities where we work and for us. It is about crossing the boundaries of conventional thinking to deliver efficiencies and unleash innovation in our solutions, advancing sustained economic, social and environmental well being.