Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association (NZCA) is a membership organisation that provides professional support and advice to its members along with a range of benefits and discounts.
Membership Services Manager
Charmaine Thomson
Charmaine began her ECE career teaching in the State Kindergarten sector and then moved into the private ECE sector as Assistant Director in Wellington. Teaching in the ECE sector provided Charmaines strong grounding in pedagogy. Followed by a move into teaching performance music at a Private Training Establishment.
Charmaine moved from teaching for eight years and worked in recruitment; bringing UK secondary teachers into New Zealand and sourcing relievers for ECE services and primary schools in Wellington. The next four years were spent recruiting researchers and policy analysts for the state sector.
Charmaine returned to the ECE sector working for the Ministry of Education in the Early Childhood and Regional Education group on a range of praxis-based research programmes.
More recently she worked with an Industry Training Organisation on workplace based learning programmes for the state sector where she was responsible for supporting learners in the workplace to achieve national qualifications across a range of areas including border management, first line management and business administration.
In her life outside of work, she enjoys weight training, writing narrative poetry and opera.
Charmaine is looking forward to supporting members with information about developments the early childhood sector and how the Association membership supports your work.
Members can reach Charmaine at members@nzca.ac.nz or call 0800 ECADVICE (322 384)
As a member you can get advice and information on changes and developments in the early childhood sector. For contact details and schedules of face-to-face briefings, log on to the Member Section.
