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Job Title Smart Meals Dietitian Job Category Community Educator Company The Albany Damien Center, Inc. Albany, NY, New York 12203 www.AlbanyDamienCenter.org

Title: Smart Meals Dietitian

Status: Full-time; 40 hours per week; overtime exempt

Reports to: Program Manager

Supervises: Smart Meals Chef, Assistant Chef, Volunteers

Salary: High thirties to mid forties depending on experience, plus health/dental and combined leave time

Hours: Mon – Thurs 11 – 7, Fri 9 – 5 with flexibility

Qualifications:

1. Registered Dietitian status with the American Dietetic Association

2. Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition/Dietetics

3. Computer skills: Command of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Computer Reporting

4. Knowledge of area HIV/AIDS services and dietary issues helpful

5. Outgoing; caring and compassionate attitude; ability to prioritize and organize tasks and work independently as well in a team setting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

General: Encourage and maintain the Center's mission of hospitality and empowerment through person-centered relationships, utilizing harm reduction and wellness principles. Maintain confidentiality and non-discriminatory conduct in accordance with Albany Damien Center policies.

Duties:

• Provide nutritional screenings, assessments, meal orientations, and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA). Follow members between assessments for goal progress and suggest alterations to dietary plans.

• Provide nutritional counseling, reinforce nutrition and food safety education, and answer clients’ general nutrition questions during congregate meal times, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays (Lunch 12 – 1:30 and Dinners 6 – 7:30).

• Provide nutritional analysis of Smart Meals menus.

• Assist in execution and review of Smart Meals grant work plans.

• Gather inventory of food ingredients to be placed in the grocery bags each Thursday. Ensure that a volunteer is available to assemble and distribute the grocery bags.

• Disseminate emergency food bags.

• Schedule Food Voucher Client recipients, determine voucher amounts, and track.

• Supervise SM Chef and Assistant Chef to ensure job duties are being performed on a regular, consistent basis.

• Coordinate and run weekly CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) meeting with Smart Meal Staff.

• Complete outreach presentations to outlying counties to recruit clients for the Food Voucher Program, as needed.

• Attend to other tasks as needed for the Smart Meals Program (i.e. assisting with attic organization, cleanups, donations, ordering paper goods and other supplies as needed, etc)


For consideration, please submit cover letter, resume, and three professional references to Perry Junjulas, Executive Director at PerryJ@AlbanyDamienCenter.org

Perry Junjulas
For consideration, please submit cover letter, resume, and three professional references to Perry Junjulas, Executive Director at PerryJ@AlbanyDamienCenter.org
5184497881 [fax]
perryj@albanydamiencenter.org

[posted Mar 10, 2010]

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