Prelude to the Future (2014-2025)
This program is a long-standing collaboration between GTNT Group and Charles Darwin University, funded by Shell Australia and the Northern Territory Government. Since 2014, Prelude has delivered tailored training contracts to create meaningful employment and career pathways for Territorians while addressing critical skill shortages.
Programs 1–3 recruited significantly disadvantaged job seekers with multiple barriers to employment, providing mentoring, support, and engagement strategies to connect participants with training and sustainable jobs. The initiative’s multi-staged model combines structured training, mentoring, wraparound services, and employer matching, enabling at-risk learners to complete programs and build lasting skills.
Qualifications delivered across Prelude to the Future programs include:
• Prelude 1: Certificate III in Diesel Fitting
• Programs 2 & 3: Certificate III in Warehousing & Logistics
• Program 4: Dual Apprenticeship in Certificate III in Diesel Fitting and Electrical Fitting
• Program 5: Certificate III in Electrotechnology Electrician or Engineering (Fabrication/Mechanical)
• Program 6: Certificate III in Driver Operations or Electrotechnology Electrician
Notable achievements include awards for Thomas Mitchell, Margaret Bell, Shannah Mudge, Ranty Labasi, Elisha Wright, and Jack Higgins, alongside recognition for the program itself: Chief Minister’s Award and Industry Collaboration Award (2015 & 2016) and runner-up for Industry Collaboration in 2025.
Territory Aboriginal Apprentice Program (formally Local Jobs Program) (2016 – ongoing)
This program aims to increase employment and training outcomes for Indigenous Territorians while addressing a skills shortage gap in remote/regional Northern Territory. GTNT Group works closely with employers/host businesses and apprentices/trainees to deliver employment to Indigenous Territorians through an apprenticeship/traineeship pathway.
Juno (2020 to 2022)
The Juno apprenticeship program was a flexible and adaptive training model with multiple access points designed to increase employment for Indigenous Territorians in remote locations. Many people that we worked with from the local communities, including Tennant Creek, Elliot, Ali Curung; had low levels of literacy and numeracy as they had not attended high school on a regular basis.
Get Set in the NT (2021)
The Get Set program was a joint initiative with the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the Department of Education and GTNT Group to enable Year 12 school leavers to be able to train and work. These school leavers were all impacted by COVID19 during their final years of school and the program was designed to boost their confidence and skills to enable them to continue to tertiary education or to pursue a career in business or administration.
Community Services Program (2021 – 2022)
This program was for 12 Indigenous Territorians to undertake Certificate III in Individual Support. Many of the participants in this program became students and trainees that are first in their family to go into tertiary studies.
ConocoPhillips Health Services Program (2019)
The aim of the program was to increase positive social impact through employment and training opportunities for Indigenous Territorians by generating sustainable employment opportunities, whilst addressing the skills shortage in our community. The program was for 15 local Indigenous trainees to undertake a focused traineeship with intensive training including work placement under the nationally recognised qualification of CHC33015 – Certificate III in Individual Support. The program addressed skill shortages, created pathways into the health and community service industry and increased the local skilled Indigenous workforce.
Jemena Program (2017)
The aim of the Project Ready Training Program was to prepare local Indigenous people who were long-term unemployed, living in the vicinity of the Northern Gas Pipeline Project for unskilled and semi-skilled construction jobs.