WIC-Nutritionist

Job Summary: We are looking for a WIC Nutritionist to provide nutrition care to high- and low-risk women, infants, and children.

The Nutritionist will be responsible for: anthropometric and hematological data collection, nutrition assessment, food package prescription, nutrition counseling and education, data entry, referrals to outside health and social services, breastfeeding promotion, and follow-up nutrition education.

Essential Functions/ Key Responsibilities: 

• Provides nutrition care to women, infants, and children, under the supervision of the senior Nutritionist.
• Participates in planning, developing, and evaluating educational materials, group nutrition education sessions, participant counseling and education strategies, nutrition in-services and outreach activities, and nutrition policies.
• Assists senior Nutritionist in training paraprofessional WIC staff and conducting quality assurance activities.
• Communicates with health care community on issues of participant needs.
• Attends bi-weekly staff meetings and nutrition trainings, conferences, and workshops as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health nutrition, nutrition, or food and nutrition; Master’s degree preferred, may be substituted for work experience.
• One year’s experience in clinical or community nutrition.
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making capabilities.
• Good communication skills.
• Sensitivity to the needs of the client population.
• Available to work at least one Saturday a month.
• Bilingual (Spanish and English) preferred.
• A suitable CORI & SORI must be completed within the first 30 days of employment.
• Ability to work effectively with and meet the needs of people from a wide range of backgrounds, identities, cultures, nationalities, and languages that make up the rich complexity of GLCAC, Consumer, including its employees, partners in the community, and clientele. Everyone is responsible for supporting the agency’s mission of building an environment of fairness and opportunity where people are valued for their unique contributions.

Supervisory Responsibility: None.

Travel: Travel between program sites is required. Occasional travel off-site to trainings and meetings is also required.

Physical Demands: This job regularly requires the employee to sit, walk, and stand, and use hands repetitively to handle or operate standard office equipment. The employee is occasionally required to kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment: This job operates with a hybrid model with opportunities to work 2-3 days remote and 3 days in-office per week. GLCAC operates a professional office environment with standard office equipment, such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, fax machines