EAUC

Who we are

EAUC is the leading body for sustainability in the post-16 education sector in the UK and Republic of Ireland.  

Primarily a membership body, we serve over 300 organisations whilst also working to change systems that enable sustainability action. 

Our vision is a post-16 education system that creates a world with sustainability at its heart.

Our purpose

We exist to lead and empower the post 16 education sector to embed sustainability in everything it does.

We promote holistic whole organisation approaches where leadership and governance, estates and operations, teaching and learning and collaborations are all actively driving sustainability so that we are equipping learners for their lives, being responsible organisations and shaping society for the better.

We do this by:

• Supporting our members to create meaningful sustainability change.

• Convening our network to generate solutions to shared challenges.

• Creating systems change to establish a more enabling environment for sustainability action.

Our goals

1. Our members will be achieving their ambitious sustainability goals. 

2. All post-16 education organisations in the UK and the Republic of Ireland will be engaged through our work. 

3. We will provide unparalleled expertise on sustainability in post-16 education. 

4. The systems and frameworks which shape post-16 education will promote and embed sustainability action. 

Find out more at https://www.eauc.org.uk/about/about-us/.

Our culture and values

Values

We are first and foremost values-led. Our values set out what you can expect from us, and what we expect from those we work with. 

Collaborative

We foster communities, connect people and work smartly with other organisations.​

Integrity

We are an ‘honest broker’ of expertise and share not just our successes but lessons learned.​

Ambitious

We focus on impact, stimulating innovation and driving progress across the sector. We strive for excellence.​

Inclusive

We centre equity, diversity and inclusion in everything we do.

Empowering

We build capacity and expertise.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Our commitments

At EAUC, one of our core values is being inclusive: we centre equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in everything we do.

We strive to make our community a welcoming, caring and ambitious one for everyone. We work hard to ensure a ‘high performance, high wellbeing' culture for our staff and those we work with, creating an environment where people in our community can achieve their personal and professional goals.

We’re working to ensure we don’t just celebrate diversity but invite people with different viewpoints and experiences to shape our work. We want to ensure we create spaces for historically and currently marginalised individuals and communities to be seen, valued, heard and lead in the EAUC community.

We are committed to a programme of activity focused on enhancing our performance as an organisation and identifying opportunities to support the post-16 education sector's EDI work too.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all and are striving to be an organisation where all staff and volunteers are able to thrive and be their whole selves.

As part of our action on inclusion, diversity and equality, when we have job vacancies we encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented backgrounds and groups, including but not limited to, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.

We are a Disability Confident organisation and are dedicated to fair work and pay. We are active participants in the RACE Report and use our published transparency card to monitor progress and inform future work. We always pay at least the real Living Wage and do not offer any unpaid/non-credit-bearing placement opportunities or work experience.

Full information at https://www.eauc.org.uk/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/