Job and Internship Announcements
Internships
HOK is always looking for interested individuals to help us out with our programs and projects. If you support our mission and are interested in helping out the organization, please email info@huihawaii.org with a copy of your resume and cover letter detailing your interest in the organization, what projects you would like to be involved with and what ways you think you would like to help! Closed Positions
Internship Announcement: Website Development
Posted: November 14, 2013 Hui o Koʻolaupoko (HOK) is a 501(c) 3, non-profit organization with a mission to protect ocean health by restoring the ʻāina: mauka to makai. Throughout our region of focus, the Koʻolaupoko moku (Makapuʻu to Kualoa) or “windward Oahu,” land-based pollution is a leading threat to ocean health. HOK works to protect resources through community based watershed restoration and implementation of on-the-ground projects to directly address watershed and water quality issues. HOK works in partnership with local stakeholders, including interested citizens, non-governmental organizations, government, educational institutions and businesses while using sound ecological principles, community input, and cultural heritage. HOK’s projects include riparian restoration, storm water management and low impact design. Visit www.huihawaii.org to learn more about HOK and our projects. Low impact development (LID) and low impact retrofits (LIR) are innovative design strategies that mimic natural systems, aimed at reducing pollution entering streams and oceans by intercepting storm water at the source. A rain gardens is a type of LID/LIR which works to capture, infiltrate and treat storm water runoff onsite. HOK has established a robust rain garden program and has successfully installed a number of rain gardens at various locations within the Koʻolaupoko moku. The use of LID/LIR and rain gardens is gaining traction throughout the state as an effective means of managing storm water and mitigating the effects of non-point source pollution. A variety of government, non-government and private organizations across the country have created websites, such as a “Rain Garden Registry,” which allows individuals or organizations to upload their projects onto an online database that houses information about LID/LIR and rain garden projects. HOK is interested in establishing this type of website not only for our own use, but hopefully for the use of other organizations across the State. See http://www.raingardenregistry.com/ for an example of what we are aiming to create. HOK is looking for a student intern to work with HOK staff to develop this website/database, which would include basic location information (address and associated map data), project specs, pictures and video, as well as a forum for asking question and providing community feedback. Although the student intern will focus their time on website/database development, student interns are also encouraged to participate in HOK’s other restoration and storm water management projects to see how their work is assisting our on-the-ground community projects. This is an unpaid internship opportunity. HOK is flexible and able to work with the student to develop a work schedule that accommodates the student’s class schedule. Ultimately this internship is a wonderful opportunity for a student in the computer science or geography/GIS program to adopt an important community project need into their current studies and research project requirements. Ideally, this student would be interested in applying their computer science or geography/GIS degree within the non-profit or environmental sector to help find solutions that will address natural resource management and conservation projects in Hawaii. For more information please contact an HOK Staff Member at info@huihawaii.org or 808-277-5611. 
Internship Announcement: Community-Based Social Marketing
Posted: November 14, 2013 Hui o Koʻolaupoko (HOK) is a 501(c) 3, non-profit organization with a mission to protect ocean health by restoring the ʻāina: mauka to makai. Throughout our region of focus, the Koʻolaupoko moku (Makapuʻu to Kualoa) or “windward Oahu,” land-based pollution is a leading threat to ocean health. HOK works to protect resources through community based watershed restoration and implementation of on-the-ground projects to directly address watershed and water quality issues. HOK works in partnership with local stakeholders, including interested citizens, non-governmental organizations, government, educational institutions and businesses while using sound ecological principles, community input, and cultural heritage. HOK’s projects include riparian restoration, storm water management and low impact design. Visit www.huihawaii.org to learn more about HOK and our projects. As part of the State’s Pollution Runoff Control Program, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health funded HOK’s Heʻeia Watershed Restoration and Education Phase III project which includes upland landslide erosion control, lower Heʻeia Stream riparian restoration and focused homeowner outreach and education within the Heʻeia watershed. HOK is looking for a student intern to work with HOK staff to develop the homeowner outreach and education portion of this grant. The student will focus on developing a homeowner outreach program utilizing Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) techniques to address residential non-point source pollution in the Heʻeia watershed. Although student interns will focus their time on the homeowner outreach program, students are also encouraged to participate in HOK’s other restoration and storm water management projects. The student intern and HOK staff will work together to develop a project following CBSM’s five step process, resulting in the implementation of a planned strategy for on-the-ground outreach at the watershed level. 1) Select the most pertinent behaviors that contribute to NPS pollution 2) Identify barriers and benefits to these behaviors through research/literature reviews, team brainstorm sessions and survey techniques 3) Develop strategies 4) Conduct a pilot 5) Broad-scale implementation In addition to development and implementation of the project, it will also be important to incorporate documentation of the process and results, thus providing the student a wonderful opportunity for an applied research project. The anticipated schedule for this project is to conduct Task 2 – Barriers and Benefits research and survey in the beginning of 2014 and Task 2 and 3 – Develop a strategy and conduct a pilot in the spring/summer of 2014. HOK is flexible and able to work with the student to develop a work schedule that accommodates the student’s class schedule. This is an unpaid internship opportunity. HOK is looking for a student who is focusing their studies on watershed/water quality/stormwater issues and ideally is interested in addressing NPS pollution through outreach, utilizing social psychology and CBSM methods. For more information please contact an HOK Staff Member at info@huihawaii.org or 808-277-5611.
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