Dominic Taranto

Core Accountabilities:

• As a member of the People and Culture leadership team, I role modeled high standards of performance, accountability, collaboration, ethics, and integrity; managing allocated resources, budgets, contributed to business and project planning and reporting; and demonstrated a strong commitment to a positive culture and the development of EPA's people.
• Actively contributed to the development of a positive and high performing team culture, including by identifying and implementing opportunities to improve teamwork practices.
• Lead policy and strategic initiatives for EPA related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with a focus on gender equity and the prevention of violence against women, including managing the implementation and reporting of EPA's gender equity action plan initiatives and obligations.
• Provided authoritative advice to internal stakeholders and built capacity of the organisation to be gender equitable, inclusive and prevent violence against women.
• Developed and project managed two detailed project plans, with clearly defined action steps for achieving specified
  objectives. Managed project risks and issues; ensured project objectives were met and to budget.
• Represented the EPA positively in engaging with the community and duty holders to build knowledge and awareness of the laws that protect our environment and human health from pollution and waste, and the role of EPA as Victoria's independent environmental regulator.

Key Outcomes & Achievements

• Designed EPA's DE&I action plan as a key pillar of the newly released People & Culture Roadmap 2023/26.
• Established four new Employee Led Networks including a DE&I Advisory group.
• Chaired the Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) implementation working group
• Full member of the People Sub-committee
• Completed all progress reporting and workforce audits to the Commission for Gender Equality in Public Service.
• Delivered two strategic projects focused on Diverse & Inclusive workplaces with a 94% completion rate and within a 5% budget variance.
• Conducted four consecutive annual gender pay gap analysis reports looking at intersectional cohorts most at risk and delivering insights and recommendations for improvement. EPA's gender pay gap reduced 0.4 % during my time.
• Introduced Sense of Belonging measures of success into quarterly pulse surveys. EPA saw a continuous improvement in scores from 69% to 74%
• Delivered fundamentals DE&I training to Board, Senior executive and all EPA employees.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with the CPCO to develop a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) annual strategy and tactical plan aligned to the P&S strategy.
• Collaborate with the global People & Culture (P&C) team on aligning components of the talent experience; including on-boarding, the performance cycle, talent development, workplace operations and company policy.
• Contribute to and champion the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for Redbubble
• Manage agreed global initiatives in line with Redbubble's commitment to social impact, including Community Collective, IDAHOBIT, International Women's Day, and other celebrations of diversity and identity.
• Identify, manage and continually review the impact of external partnerships which reflect and reinforce our commitment to social impact, diversity and inclusion (e.g. White Ribbon).
• Lead the delivery of the D&I Strategy at Redbubble, including the development and tracking of metrics and indicators of success.
• Act as a permanent member and contributor to the Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) Committee; including successful delivery of defined projects, and the provision of research relating to best-practice in social inclusion and D&I.
• Lead the development and delivery of D&I training programs and learning experiences; including content development, facilitation and impact assessment.
• Contribute D&I expertise; including to the development and co-facilitation of leadership programs and custom team workshops.
• Coach and mentor individual contributors and people managers on matters relating to diversity, inclusion and D&I.
• Apply an ever-compassionate and inclusive approach to your team, peers and clients in all your engagements and everything you create.

Key Outcomes & Achievements

• An integral leader and business partner on improving Redbubble's 'sense of belonging' score from 72% to 89% as of Nov 2022.
• Successfully launched and embedded three Affinity Groups (All Gender, LGBTQIA+ and Neurodiversity) with annual engagement and recommendations to the Executive team.
• Partnered with key stakeholders to improve the gender balance of our engineering team by 5% within one year.
• For three consecutive years maintained a 30% or greater female identifying gender balance at Board, Executive and Senior Leadership level.
• An integral member of the kick-off team for Redbubble's ESG strategy and author of 'People Pillar' in the inaugural ESG Report.

Workplace Programs

• Collaborate with the global People & Culture (P&C) team on targeted components of the talent experience; including on-boarding, the performance cycle, talent development, workplace operations and company policy.
• Contribute to and champion Talent & Organisation Development initiatives, including Employee Value Proposition (EVP), and the attraction and development of our talent.
• Manage assigned people projects, and contribute to P&C strategic and tactical objectives.
• Major Project: Melbourne office search and relocation
• Manage global initiatives reflective of Redbubble's commitment to social impact.
• Manage internal communications for a range of people team and company-wide initiatives and events.
  Identify and manage external partnerships which reflect and reinforce our commitment to social impact, diversity and inclusion (e.g. White Ribbon).
  

Belonging

• Lead the delivery of the Belonging Strategy at Redbubble, including the development and tracking of metrics and indicators of success.
• Act as a permanent member and contributor to the Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) Committee; including successful delivery of defined projects, and the provision of research relating to best-practice in social inclusion and belonging.
• Lead the development and delivery of belonging training programs and learning experiences; including content development, facilitation and impact assessment.
• Contribute inclusion and belonging expertise; including to the development and co-facilitation of leadership programs and custom team workshops.
• Coach and mentor individual contributors and people managers on matters relating to diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Key Outcomes & Achievements

• Implemented Redbubble's first ever Diversity & Inclusion Policy with market leading objectives and reporting.
• Negotiated and project lead Redbubble's new Melbourne office location during COVID. This design was later published.
• Designed and deployed Redbubble's inaugural Diversity & Inclusion employee training program.

A recent team restructure required me to take on a more generalist HR role with an opportunity to not only coach our junior office coordinator but consolidate all employee engagement programming. As well as undertake a strategic planning role for our Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness plans.

My impact leading up to and including the short term in this role has been significant and a natural progression of my work. I am often described as someone who embodies the very spirit of Redbubble and lives our values daily. Within two months we have already seen a spike in employee engagement across all programs and an improved lived experience in regards to office happiness.

Main responsibilities included:

• Managing office happiness initiatives and day to day management of facilities
• Project manage Redbubble global rituals and events
• Global Artist in Residence program Manager
• Facilitating our Diversity, Equity & Inclusive engagement workshops and training
• Coordinate inspire participation in our community collective outreach volunteer program