sustainability governance
Responsibility for bankmecu’s sustainability strategy resides at all levels of the organisation with sustainability being considered core business by all departments.
Figure 3c: bankmecu’s sustainability governance structure
The CEO and senior management team are responsible for embedding sustainability principles within the business and delivering strategy and leadership, product development, overall management, commercial oversight, stakeholder engagement, community partnerships and communications about sustainability.
The General Manager - Development is responsible for marketing, corporate communications, Government relations, facilitating stakeholder engagement and developing community partnerships.
The General Manager - Operations maintains liaison with EPA Victoria and UNEP FI.
The General Manager – Development and General Manager - Operations share liaison with UN GC and UN PRI.
Staff members nominated from each Department participate on a Staff Sustainability Reference Group called ‘Footprints’. Footprints is responsible for helping to champion and implement appropriate sustainability projects and initiatives across bankmecu. The Footprints team includes a member from senior management. The General Manager – Lending and Personal Banking was on rotation to oversee the activities of Footprints for the 2010/11 year. General Managers share this responsibility rotating annually.
Footprints is supported by Service Centre Managers to ensure that sustainability initiatives are implemented across the entire organisation and provides an important channel for disseminating information and collecting ideas on how bankmecu can become more sustainable and meet its commitments under bankmecu’s Sustainability Covenant with EPA Victoria, UNEP FI and UN GC.