Upena Pili Navigator

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Full Time Professional Waianae, HI, US

Salary Range: $54,600.00 To $61,100.00 Annually

3 FT Positions - 'Oahu

1 FT Position - Moloka'i

Guide and support ʻōpio furthest from opportunity through individualized, relationship-based navigation grounded in ʻUpena Pili's ancestral way finding model. Partner with 'ōpio to identify their goals, recognize and build upon their strengths, navigate barriers, and access coordinated supports, resources, and opportunities across youth programs. Support ʻōpio in developing the mindsets, skillsets, relationships, confidence, and self-direction needed to navigate learning, work, and life.

• Build consistent, trusting, and authentic relationships with ʻōpio through individual mentorship, coaching, encouragement, and care;
• Meet ʻōpio where they are, listen actively, recognize and cultivate their strengths, and create physical and psychological safety;
• Serve as a guide and advisor as ʻōpio build agency, make informed decisions, solve problems, and become navigators of their own lives;
• Maintain positive, productive, and healthy relationships with ʻōpio through appropriate professional boundaries, reliability, and personal self-care;
• Share lived experience in developmentally appropriate and professional ways when it supports the growth and goals of ʻōpio.

• Partner with each ʻōpio to develop and regularly update an individualized Navigator's Journey that reflects their identity, strengths, interests, needs, goals, destinations, and next steps;
• Help ʻōpio orient themselves, explore multiple possible futures, prepare for opportunities, recognize progress, respond to challenges, and course correct when needed;
• Cultivate the navigational mindsets of mālama, pono, lōkahi, kuleana, hoʻomau, and haʻahaʻa through reflection, practice, and real-life experiences;
• Strengthen navigational skillsets that help ʻōpio read their environment, anticipate change, make decisions amid uncertainty, stay focused, and move toward their destinations;
• Connect ʻōpio with education, employment, training, wellness, cultural, stabilization, and community supports aligned with their individualized journeys.

• Facilitate or support crew connections, seminars, check-ins, and shared experiences that build belonging, positive peer relationships, and a healthy, healing-centered crew culture;
• Coordinate with Kīʻapu, Kupa ‘Aina, Ke Kama Pono, Kawailoa, and other ʻUpena Pili youth program staff to connect ʻōpio with appropriate land-preparation opportunities, resources, and supports;
• Participate in Navigator team meetings, coordinated planning, and youth conferencing to strengthen continuity and reduce gaps or duplication in support;
• Build respectful relationships with families, schools, employers, service providers, justice-system partners, and community organizations involved in the journeys of ʻōpio;
• Advocate with and for ʻōpio while helping them strengthen their own self-advocacy and system-navigation skills.

• Document contacts, Navigator's Journey updates, referrals, services, progress, milestones, barriers, and follow-up actions accurately and on time in PIDF systems;
• Protect participant privacy and maintain confidentiality in accordance with PIDF policies, grant requirements, and applicable laws;
• Contribute participant feedback, outcomes, and stories to program learning, evaluation, reporting, and continuous improvement;
• Participate in supervision, training, reflective practice, and professional…