About This Role
This role evaluates clients' needs to identify dietary requirements and restrictions. It involves conducting nutrition assessments, assigning nutrition/health risk factors, providing counseling, establishing goals, prescribing food packages, and coordinating outreach activities.
Responsibilities
- Conduct nutrition assessments to determine initial eligibility of applicants and continued eligibility of current participants
- Provide nutritional counseling, education, and breastfeeding support to program participants
- Coordinate and implement program outreach activities for students, residents, and physicians’ offices
- Prepare and evaluate records, data, and resources related to nutritional services
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or Public Health
- Valid driver’s license
- Knowledge of motivational interviewing
- Knowledge of principles and practices of nutrition and food in relation to health and disease
- Knowledge of general office practices and administrative procedures, records management, and administration techniques and procedures
- Skill in communicating verbally and in writing to meet the needs of the audience
- Skill in applying active listening and asking questions for understanding
- Skill in thinking critically
- Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure and maintain effective interpersonal relationships
- Ability to compile, organize, interpret, and communicate data and results concisely
- Ability to provide high levels of effective customer service
- Ability to regularly use a computer, software, phone and related office equipment
- Ability to focus on tasks
- Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion and in accordance with HIPAA
- Occasional exposure to unpleasant environmental conditions and/or hazards and outside work
- Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
Important Details
- Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 AM-5 PM
- Application deadline: 30 October 2026
About the Company
The City of Columbia participates in the federal E-Verify work authorization program.
