Wanted: an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys a slower pace of life, wants to live in a natural paradise and does not mind caring for 12 young children part time.
If you fit the bill, Rakiura Rugrats, Stewart Island's one and only early-childhood education centre would like to hear from you.
Since October last year, the centre had been looking for an early-childhood teacher to replace one who left at the end of last year.
An advertisement on an online auction website attracted 490 views in four weeks, but no applications.
Board of trustees secretary and parent Jo Learmonth believed people were put off applying because of the significant cost of moving to the island.
"It's a lot of money to move here and living costs here are a little bit higher."
She hoped the Ministry of Education would help out by placing the centre on its "hard-to-staff" area list, which would provide relocation costs to teachers moving to the island.
However, early-childhood education group manager Karl Le Quesne said Stewart Island's designation as part of Southland prevented it from gaining a place on the list as the province was not considered a hard-to-staff area.
Current hard-to-staff areas included Northland, the West Coast, Marlborough and Auckland.
Decisions to place areas on the list were based on the proportion of qualified teachers working in them and the proportion of their services at risk of not meeting the regulations regarding qualified teachers.
While the Stewart Island centre had been granted an exemption from the hard-to-staff policy in 2008, enabling it to receive a relocation grant, Mr Quesne said the ministry was "not currently in a position to offer them another".
Mrs Learmonth described the decision to not add the centre to the list or grant an exemption as "hypocritical" and a "kick in the guts".
"It would appear the vision of giving the same educational opportunities to all New Zealand preschoolers is no longer relevant."
If a teacher could not be found, the board would have to apply to the ministry for a provisional licence to parent-lead the centre, which would defeat the purpose of putting the children in an educational institution.
"It's not good for the parents or the children. The children are not learning because we are not trained to be teachers," she said.