Building inclusive and welcoming environments, where people feel safe to be their whole self, is at the heart of all we do at Scape Australia. We are committed to ensuring Scape is a safe, welcoming, diverse, and inclusive place for everyone – to live, to work, to visit.
Vital to this is a workforce that reflects the diversity of our residents and the communities in which we operate. We are extremely proud to have been recognised by the Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) as an Inclusive Employer 2023-2024. This honour highlights our exceptional performance, surpassing the National Index Benchmark for awareness, engagement, fostering an inclusive organisational climate, demonstrating inclusive leadership, building inclusive teams and mitigating exclusion.
As part of our mission to create better living experiences for people and the planet, achieving gender parity by 2027 is a key priority of Scape’s Environment, Social Governance Strategy. Our aim is to achieve parity in both representation and remuneration, and we are proactively taking steps to achieve the priorities.
Scape’s current median total remuneration gender gap is 3.2%.
We are pleased to note that this gap has reduced over the course of the last three years, when Scape commenced WGEA reporting. This momentum has been achieved through a number of initiatives, including ensuring ‘same role, same performance, same salary’ throughout the annual remuneration review process. We recognise there is still work to be done to achieve our goals. While our workforce consists of a greater proportion of females, there is a disparity at the senior leadership levels (board and executive) and addressing this disparity remains a key priority.
It is also worth noting that a significant proportion of our 700 + workforce have their employment (and remuneration) covered by a modern award.
Key drivers for achieving gender parity at Scape include:
• Our ongoing focus on creating a safe and inclusive environment and culture for people of diverse sexualities, genders, faiths, and beliefs.
• Our prioritisation of attracting, recruiting, and retaining team members from a diverse range of backgrounds (69% of Scape respondents to the DCA Inclusive Workplace survey indicated they were multilingual). We remain particularly focused on Gender parity at the leadership level as key priority including through the implementation of training, mentorship and career progression opportunities enabling women to progress to senior positions.
• Driving pay parity by ensuring we have access to relevant and up-to-date remuneration data and an ongoing focus on ‘same role, same performance, same salary’.
• Offering a range of health and wellbeing initiatives/benefits that appeal to a diverse range of individuals and their circumstances.
At Scape we’re on a mission to redefine the standard for sustainable structures and crafting future-ready developments. We’re thrilled to share a monumental achievement that propels us into the spotlight, receiving the prestigious Global Sector Leader status in Residential Developments, awarded by GRESB.
Scape stole the show with an outstanding score of 99/100 in the Development Benchmark, which is a testament to our unwavering commitment to sustainability with the average score being 94/100.
It is a pivotal achievement in our ongoing journey to become Earth’s best living company and embodies the core values we share as a unified team. In a league of only 65 companies worldwide recognised as GRESB Sector Leaders, Scape stands tall as the sole purpose-built student accommodation company and one of 26 Global Sector leaders in the Residential Development category.
Our dedication to sustainability, innovation, and the well-being of both our people and the planet shines through, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to lead the charge.
Scape Headline ESG Targets
Scape has the vision to be the Earth’s best living company. A key part of this ambition is to be a leader in ESG (Environment, Social, Governance)
Environment: Our Earth
Climate Change & energy
Waste minimisation & circular economy
Biodiversity
Social impact: Our Neighbourhood
Resident wellbeing
Accommodation for those in need
Community impact
Procurement
Governance: Ourselves
Diversity, equity & inclusion
Transparency & accountability
* Zero Carbon means Scope 1 & 2 + operational Scope 3 emissions (waste & water) will be net zero over the course of each calendar year & we will achieve Climate Active certification to verify it.
**Gender Parity means minimum 40 per cent women, 40 per cent men and 20 per cent discretionary across all staff, aligned with the Property Council of Australia 40:40:20 campaign (Diversity & Inclusion – Property Council Australia)
