Hikitia Education Tutor - Waikeria Prison at New Zealand Government

About the role

Hikitia Education Tutors are instrumental in ensuring the Tikanga of Hikitia is upheld, shared, learned, and demonstrated through Manaakitanga towards the tane in our care. As a Hikitia Education Tutor, you will act as a positive role model that operates in ways that influence learners to think differently.

• Implement culturally responsive approaches to enable engagement and achievement from the tane in our care.
• Increase cultural connection, awareness, and identity.
• Develop, plan, and implement lessons to facilitate with the tane in our care utilizing the Hikitia Oranga Programme.
• Demonstrate a Maori‑centred practice grounded in relational, holistic, and strengths‑based approaches to be delivered with cultural integrity, safety, and sustained impact.
• Embed Matauranga Maori and Maori models of wellbeing, such as Te Whare Tapa Wha, into all aspects of Corrections‑led education and rehabilitation.