Community Huki Leader

Mālama Maunalua is seeking Community Huki Leaders (CHL) to help support our mission to conserve and restore a healthy and productive Maunalua Bay through community kuleana. CHLs will assist the Habitat Restoration Coordinator in leading and organizing community and educational Hukis.

Commitment of Mālama Maunalua Community Huki Leader:

• Help schedule, organize, and conduct community and educational Hukis. Assist Habitat Restoration Coordinator in setting up/cleaning up equipment, guiding students, and briefing volunteers on their responsibilities.
• Complete orientation and training.
• Agree to recruit another Community Huki Leader replacement should personal circumstances requires you to be unable to fulfill a scheduled Huki leader event.

Roles and responsibilities of a Mālama Maunalua Community Huki Leader:

• Represent Mālama Maunalua in accordance to our guiding values, of Mālama, Kuleana, Pono, and Lokahi and treating all participants with Respect and Aloha.
• Ensuring all Huki events are well planned, organized and conducted with the highest level of safety precautions as possible.
• Contact/recruit volunteers to assist day of event.
• Keep accurate records of activities and events providing the results to MM (Collecting and confirming volunteer waivers are signed, recording weight of algae removed, and number of volunteers participating in events). Provide them to MM.
• Transporting MM Huki gear to beach, rinse and return back to Huki shed, located in Niu Valley. Gear should be returned clean and placed out to dry. Keep Huki storage shed organized.
• Educational Hukis will require additional coordination in volunteers, Paiko residence permissions (or Holy Trinity if using their location for learning station), tent and table set up and Outreach materials for Huki participants.
• Conduct media taping or interviews as needed about the Huki program.
• Compile success stories and other feedback (positive and negative) to help MM improve and extend the Huki program to other neighborhoods. Take pictures of activities in action, and submit pictures and articles to staff for monthly newsletters.
• Assist in spreading the word to others about what you and MM are doing to help Maunalua Bay and how they can learn and participate.

Working Conditions

This position is field based and primarily on weekends, however Hukis are also scheduled during the week.