Aboriginal engagement, delivered on Country.
TJ Civil & Services is an Aboriginal-owned engagement and participation business based in the Victoria River District. We deliver the community engagement, local employment and participation obligations your project has committed to — on the ground, where we live.
Participation is easy to commit to and hard to deliver.
Aboriginal engagement and participation commitments are written into contracts, funding agreements and participation plans every day. Out here, most of them are made by people who will never come to the community, and are then very difficult to actually deliver.
TJ Civil & Services delivers them. We run the consultation, make sure the right people are spoken with before work starts, identify and place local Aboriginal workers, source Aboriginal-owned businesses, and produce the participation reporting you can put straight into your own reporting.
We are based in the region we work in. That is the difference, and it is not one that can be replicated from a capital city.
Three things we do, properly.
Engagement & Participation Delivery
We deliver the Aboriginal engagement and participation commitments your contract or funding agreement has made — and give you the evidence that they were met.
Learn more →Community Consultation & Liaison
Making sure the right people are spoken with, before work starts and while it runs. Meetings held, issues recorded, questions answered, the loop closed.
Learn more →Local Employment & Aboriginal Business
Finding, placing and supporting local Aboriginal workers, and sourcing Aboriginal-owned businesses — then reporting what actually happened.
Learn more →Work we have delivered
Every engagement we complete produces a record: scope, approvals, engagement notes, participation figures and a client who can be contacted.
TJ Civil & Services is a new business built on long experience in the Victoria River District. Our completed projects will be published here as they are delivered — in full, with photographs, participation figures and contactable referees.
To discuss our capability and speak with our referees, contact us directly.
We are not fly-in.
The Victoria River District is remote by any measure. Roads close. Distances are long. Access requires permissions, relationships and timing that cannot be arranged from an office in a capital city on the day work is due to start.
Engagement done from a capital city is a set of assumptions. Engagement done from here is a set of relationships.
We know who to speak with before work starts, and in what order. We know that a conversation held properly at the beginning prevents the problem that stops a project at the end. We are still here after the project closes, which is why people talk to us.
Seven steps. Every engagement. Every time.
Each step produces defined evidence. Our clients and their funders receive a complete file — not a summary, the file.
Enquiry
We confirm what is needed and who holds authority to approve the work and the expenditure.
Enquiry recordScope
Location, deliverables, timeframe, budget, reporting and subcontractor needs defined in writing.
Written scopeQuote
A written quotation or service agreement is issued and accepted before any work begins.
Accepted quotationRisk check
Access, safety, weather, permissions, licences, insurances and conflicts assessed and declared.
Risk assessment, declarationsMobilise
People confirmed, schedule set, meetings arranged, communication points established.
Programme, engagement planDeliver
Engagement delivered and monitored. Issues raised early, not at the end.
Records, notes, issue registerClose-out
Completion confirmed, evidence compiled, participation reported, invoice and final report issued.
Completion & participation fileAboriginal owned. Aboriginal controlled. Aboriginal benefit.
TJ Civil & Services is 100% owned and controlled by Lily Rainger, an Aboriginal woman of the Victoria River District.
Engaging us supports Commonwealth Indigenous Procurement Policy and Northern Territory Aboriginal Procurement Policy objectives — but the more important measure is what actually happens on the ground: local people employed, Aboriginal-owned businesses engaged, and money that stays in the region.
We report those numbers on every engagement.
Assessing us as a supplier?
Ownership, capability, governance, insurances, referees and supplier details in a single document.