Opunake Kindergarten

  • Posted: 13 Jul 2021
  • Location: New Plymouth
  • Work Type: Full Time
  • Classification: Education
Due to one of our teachers following her dream into nursing, we are looking for a qualified registered Early Childhood teacher to join our friendly team.

We are looking for a person who is:
• Passionate about environmental sustainability and wants to support the care of our local environment.
• A reliable team player – Someone who understands how to be a great team member, has a great sense of humour, uses their initiative, and can work well with a wide range of people.
• Confident and capable at identifying children’s unique strengths, interests, working theories, learning dispositions, progress, and next steps for learning.
• Knowledgeable in Te Whariki, Taataiako and ECE pedagogy.
• A great communicator (written and verbal), with good time management skills.
• Energetic! We are looking for someone who can get involved and join in boisterous play.
• Great with ICT - We use Storypark and ipads to share and celebrate children’s learning and progress, as well as Google Drive.
• Is more than a basic te reo Maori speaker and incorporates te reo Maori every day.
• Holding a NZ recognised ECE diploma or degree and a NZ work permit (if required).

Our Kindergarten is situated in the small coastal sea-side town of Opunake in Taranaki, with amazing purpose-built facilities. We are an innovative community-own early childhood education centre with a dedicated enthusiastic teaching team as well as excellent ratios. We cater for up to 60 children each day (over two rooms) aged 0 to 6yrs.
The position is full time Monday to Friday during school terms (option of 4 days/week) and salary is based on the NZEI ECECA collective agreement.

We will consider applicants for a Teacher in Training position, who are nearing the end of their 3rd year of study in gaining their ECE Degree Level 7.
If you would like to join our friendly team, please send your CV to:

HR Team
Opunake Communities Kindergarten
P O Box 85 Opunake
[email protected]
Applications close Sunday 1st August 2021