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.