The NCUA has long been committed to having a more diverse workforce and leadership team. To achieve our diversity and inclusion goals, we focus on specific areas:
- expanding our understanding of diversity,
- implementing diversity and inclusion as business imperatives,
- being intentionally inclusive, and
- mitigating unconscious bias.
Read the NCUA Chairman’s annual statement reinforcing the agency's commitment to the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Workforce Diversity Programs
The NCUA has established a variety of programs to help us sustain a skilled, highly engaged, and diverse workforce at all levels, including leadership.
- Recruitment outreach: Strategically engaging specific, diverse segments within the population allows us to broaden the pool of talent from which we recruit and strengthens potential employees’ understanding of our agency and the financial services sector.
- Formal mentoring: Providing opportunities to build and share organizational knowledge and professional expertise capitalizes on the experience of successful individuals committed to the development of an inclusive, high-performing workforce. This in turn improves the mentees’ skills, organizational perspective, and self-confidence. The NCUA benefits from an enhanced, inclusive work environment and strengthened employee recruitment, development and retention.
- Diversity Advisory Council: Leveraging a team of diversity champions from throughout the agency provides the NCUA with a valuable resource to assist and advise decision makers with diversity and inclusion efforts.
- Training and education: Learning and professional development programs ensure the NCUA maintains a consistent and competent pool of diverse talent. Focusing on topics such as unconscious bias provides staff and supervisors with techniques to identify and mitigate bias and equip them with tools to be more inclusive in the workplace.
Workplace Inclusion Programs
Student Interns
Providing internships for students from diverse communities allows the NCUA to bring talented young individuals into the organization for temporary assignments. This gives the students valuable, substantive work experience and exposure to the financial services industry while bringing diverse perspectives, fresh ideas, and young talent into the agency. More information about this program is available here.
NCUA Employee Resource Group Network Program
Creating inclusion through connections
At the NCUA, our employees are instrumental in shaping and advancing our diversity, equity, inclusion, and allyship (DEI&A) efforts. NCUA employees contribute daily to the agency's DEI&A goals by engaging in one or more of our eight employee resource groups (ERGs.) ERGs are voluntary, employee-led groups that serve as a resource for members and organizations within the agency. The ERGs help foster a diverse and inclusive workplace.
How ERGs Support Employees
The NCUA ERG program focuses on creating and building strong connections among employees. The program brings together colleagues who share a common identity, characteristic, or set of interests to foster greater inclusion and engagement, create a sense of community, and support the personal growth and professional development of members.
How ERGs Support the Agency
ERGs contribute to the creation and maintenance of a work culture that recognizes, appreciates, and effectively encourages the use of the talents, skills, and perspectives of all employees in the achievement of the NCUA's mission. ERGs help build connections among their members and others, which supports retention of highly skilled NCUA staff. These groups also strengthen the agency's performance by developing programs and learning opportunities for their members and the NCUA workforce.
NCUA Employee Resource Groups
APIC (Asian Pacific Islander Connection)
The APIC ERG’s mission is to foster a sense of community among Asian American and Pacific Islander employees and promote awareness and appreciation of the Asian American and Pacific Islander culture by all NCUA colleagues. The group seeks to support career development and professional opportunities for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders within the NCUA.
CULTURA (Creating Unity, Learning to Understand, Recognizing All)
CULTURA is the agency's group supporting the Hispanics and Latino/a/x community and allies. The Hispanic and Latino ERG mission is to foster a diverse and inclusive workforce by developing Hispanics and Latino/a/x employees, building cultural awareness, and supporting retention of Hispanic and Latino/a/x employees.
MPower (Empowering Individuals with Different Abilities)
MPower's mission is to recognize and increase awareness and acceptance of employees who have a disability or who have a loved one with a disability (temporary, permanent, visible, or invisible). The group seeks to promote a supportive environment that fosters the inclusion of all employees and enhances awareness of the benefits that diversity of ability brings to build and sustain a strong workforce.
NCUA PRIDE (People Recognizing Individual Differences Equally)
NCUA PRIDE is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for the LGBTQ+ community. The group provides relevant educational resources, encouraging members' career development, advocating for a more LGBTQ+-inclusive agency, and helping outreach efforts both within and outside the agency.
NEON (New Employees of NCUA)
NEON mission is to collaborate, provide resources, and support new employees by sharing experiences, and assisting in career development.
SWAN (Supporting Women At NCUA)
SWAN's purpose is to support and expand networking, educational, and outreach programs that emphasize the personal and professional development of women.
Umoja (Unity)
Umoja is the agency's group supporting the African American, black community and allies at NCUA. Its mission is to recognize a common African ancestry, embrace the principle of unity through connectivity and community by intentionally including all ERGs, increase awareness and respect for differences, pursue opportunities for innovation and change, and align with others to build and sustain a thriving workforce.
VANS (Veterans At NCUA Serving)
VANS is the agency's group supporting those who currently serve or have served in the military and those who support the nation's veterans. The group's mission is to leverage military experiences, share creative solutions, develop camaraderie, and enhance the mission of the NCUA among all employees, with special emphasis on the military and veteran culture.