You will have a PhD and a recognised teaching qualification, alongside your knowledge of current mathematics practice in schools, within the New Zealand Curriculum. 

Your research focus makes an impact in areas that inform teaching and learning in educational settings. You care about cultural diversity and want to support the next generation of teachers to work with diverse learners in contexts where educational outcomes are sought. If you bring knowledge of Māori or Pasifica perspectives these are foregrounded in your work. 

Motivated to be involved in all aspects of teaching and learning, you enjoy developing research-informed material, delivering content and assessing and appraising in a range of programmes. You are a supportive supervisor of honours, graduate and postgraduate students and their research, alongside your own established and high-level record of research and publishing relevant to the field of mathematics education. 

 You will be further developing your original scholarship and research, offering leadership and mentoring to other staff and supervising student research. Your teaching will be both on campus and online and you will be participating in liaison and evaluative visiting when students are in schools. While the position contributes predominantly to mathematics within initial teacher education programmes, opportunities exist for staff to contribute to other fields that benefit from their knowledge and interests. 

Salary range: Senior Lecturer $99,780 - $130,902 and Associate Professor $132,540 - $146,190. 

This position is based in Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education, and will involve teaching at both our Hamilton and Tauranga campuses.Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education offers academic programmes in social sciences in education and initial teacher education at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels, and a range of programmes from counselling to educational leadership across both taught and research postgraduate. 

Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, the University of Waikato, has its people at heart and strives to provide students with a world-class education and staff with a safe, friendly and collaborative environment where their contributions and engagement are valued. 

You can be part of our success. Our University stands proudly on the world stage as a provider of future-focused, international education and an active player in global research. Our rankings reflect these strengths. Our University provides a unique and satisfying work environment with many benefits for our staff including flexible working, study opportunities, generous superannuation and leave provisions. 

At Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, the University of Waikato, we embrace equity and diversity; therefore, we strongly encourage applicants with the relevant capabilities from all backgrounds to apply. We would greatly value seeing applicants from our Māori and Pacific communities. 

For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Head of School, Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education, Associate Professor Sally Peters sally.peters@waikato.ac.nz