About OSP

Ochre Social Performance (OSP) is a majority Indigenous owned and led business, established to improve social performance outcomes for regional communities and Australian Traditional Owners to empower them to manage environmental and social impacts, build local capability, and achieve genuine legacy community benefits.

We do this through our custom collaborative engagement and social performance framework which is implemented in partnership with all levels of community, industry, and Government.

OSP aims to work alongside Government and proponents to support communities through the post-carbon transition to ensure intrinsic values are protected, negative impacts are proactively managed, local capability is built and long-term shared value achieved.

Our team is led by Kerrod Toby and Katrina Grange who have decades experience working in the resource, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors.

Kerrod is a proud Gangulu and Iman man who specialises in delivering socio-economic development initiatives for First Nations people in alignment with market-led opportunities.

Katrina is a social performance specialist who collaborates with community leaders to build local social performance capability to co-design and deliver cumulative impact management and socio-economic programs to create a better future for regional communities.

Our Commitment

We employ and build local leaders, Traditional Owner and First Nations peoples’ capability through our dedicated training and development programs which are embedded within all our programs of work. We proactively create and co-design training and employment pathway programs to remove participation barriers.
We are committed to making a positive contribution and supporting genuine local benefits in ALL the communities in which we work.
We employ local people from the communities in which we operate and are committed to building capability and capacity of the local workforce.
We support local. Our suppliers and service providers are all local businesses within our operational footprint.
We pay our team above award wages and have flexible work arrangements to support family and First Nations peoples’ cultural commitments.
We have leading workplace QHSE systems and processes including dedicated approaches to support mental health and wellbeing, and the prevention of domestic violence including genuine and private support to victims.

Our Approach

Our team journeys with Traditional Owner groups to support them to:

Uphold their custodial obligation to Care for Country and its People;
Identify and deliver programs and initiatives to support their people’s aspirations and socio-economic development opportunities in alignment with cultural protocol and lore;
Build capacity and support self-determination;
Participate in fair and equitable agreement making in alignment with the United Nations declaration on Indigenous Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and global social performance standards; and
Deliver training and employment pathway programs for Traditional Owner and endorsed First Nations peoples to deliver social performance and other services on Country through our First Nations Training Academy.

Our team supports projects, operations and organisations to:

Develop and implement a collaborative social performance framework, tailored to their internal and external context, to build stakeholder trust, shared value, uphold Social Licence to Operate (SLO) and improve overall project / operational outcomes;
Undertake meaningful, genuine, co-designed leading practice collaborative engagement with all stakeholders to achieve shared benefits and manage impacts;
Build local capability and support genuine legacy outcomes in the communities in which they operate;
Fair and equitable negotiation and agreement making with Traditional Owner groups regarding native title, cultural heritage, socio-economic opportunities and aspirations, and other important matters on Country underpinned by Free, Prior, Informed Consent (FPIC) and in alignment with their cultural protocols and lore; and
Build multi-disciplinary cross-functional social performance and cultural safety capability within all levels of your organisation through tailored training and development services.

Our team empowers
communities by:

Facilitating community-led, best practice, grassroot engagement with all levels of Government, major projects and industry to collaboratively identify and manage cumulative environment and social impacts and drive genuine community benefit;
Arming them with knowledge and tools to make informed decisions and work in partnership with all levels of Government and industry to protect intrinsic community values, proactively mitigate impacts, deliver shared value and realise their aspirations;
Creating platforms and mechanisms for collective problem solving and innovation to create better outcomes with projects / operations in their region; and
Training and employing local people to build local capability and capacity.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge, respect and honour the Traditional Custodians of the lands upon which we operate and pay respect to Ancestors and Elders past, present and emerging. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge the deep spiritual and cultural connection Traditional Owners have with the land, waters, air and community that always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. We acknowledge sovereignty of these lands has never been ceded.

Empowering regional communities and Traditional Owners with leading practice social performance and stakeholder engagement to collaboratively manage impacts and create genuine community benefits for generations to come