What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dietitian Student Nutrition Outreach position at Anchorage School District?
- A bachelor’s or advanced degree in dietetics, food and nutrition, or a related field.
- Two years of varied experience in a school district or large scale commercial food operation.
- Must attend an approved Food Protection Manager Certification course and pass the associated examination within 30 calendar days from date of hire.
- Registered Dietetic Nutritionist Technician credential.
- Registered Dietitian certification with the State of Alaska.
- Two years of experience demonstrating a strong ability to create, plan, and organize menus.
- Two years of work or academic experience relating to food service marketing.
- One year of experience or comparable course work in public relations and public speaking.
- Plans menus, creates balanced menu cycles, and performs nutritional analysis to ensure that all meals served meet:
- USDA standards as described by the Child Nutrition Programs.
- Student Nutrition Department budget, policies, and procedures.
- Complies with federal, state, and local food safety regulations.
- Develops and implements appropriate allergy plans for special meal accommodations and assists in finding accommodations to support all disabled or otherwise nutritionally challenged students.
- Interacts with teachers, principals, school nurses, and cafeteria managers to assist them in meeting their responsibilities for meal accommodations and related allergy limits. This includes but is not limited to: offering training, keeping appropriate staff informed of changes, maintaining files for individual students, updated digital files, and checking meal requests.
- Inputs and maintains nutritional information for all food items in the department software.
- Supports supervisors in planning and conducting workshops for food service personnel.
- Helps establish goals and expectations for increased operational efficiency.
- Provides continued support and monitoring of performance.
- Collaborates with kitchen managers and supervisors to aid in process improvements for ordering, production, and operations.
- Assists in the training of the central kitchen manager, school kitchen managers, and operation supervisors in areas of production, standardized recipes, lunchroom strategies, meal pattern compliance, and allergy related procedures.
- Builds and maintains relationships with vendors to ensure quality and pricing of food and supplies.
- Researches and contacts local producers and manufacturers to establish new relations and markets.
- Participates in the bid process for food and supplies, following established Anchorage School District procedures.
- Assists in maintaining minimum bid specs for food items.
- Researches and supports updating bid specs for equipment and small wares.
- Drafts bids for submittal on new projects.
- Collaborates with Alaska Grown and Farm to School community partners to develop education, expand awareness of the programs, and increase local, fresh produce availability.
- Promotes nutrition education in the schools, the home, and the community by collaborating with community partners and others in ASD in promoting and supporting healthy food habits, program integrity, and customer satisfaction.
- Collaborates with the media, special organizational groups, and classroom teachers to promote the Student Nutrition Department and its mission.
- Inspects school kitchens and establishes changes needed for maintaining or improving efficiency of production.
- Establishes workflows.
- Investigates service-line flow.
- Recognizes if additional or different equipment is needed.
- Assists in evaluating a minimum smallware requirement for schools.
- Collaborates with design teams for school renovations and updates.
- Works daily with the Student Nutrition central kitchen manager and operation supervisors.
- Practices food safe handling and safety principles.
- Adapts to organizational changes as needed.
- Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Establishes and maintains cooperative and productive working relationships with others.
JobID: 19496
Position Type:
Professionals and Supervisors/Dietitian Student Nutriton Outreach
Professionals and Supervisors/Dietitian Student Nutriton Outreach
Date Posted:
1/29/2025
1/29/2025
Location:
STUDENT NUTRITION/ADMIN
STUDENT NUTRITION/ADMIN
Bargaining Unit: ACE
Work Year: 230 days, 12 contract payments
Work Day: 8 hours per day
FTE: Full time, 1.0 FTE
Salary: ACE 7, step A - P ($54,061 - $77,970 ), DOE
Job Summary
The Student Nutrition Outreach Dietitian has a leadership role in promoting nutrition education, integrity, quality, and customer satisfaction as a representative of the Student Nutrition Department to the school district and our community. The position has a strong focus on building bridges to the classroom, community, and Anchorage area marketplace. The Outreach Dietitian plans menus, researches new ingredients and recipes, in addition to being an integral part of the operations, logistics, production, and long term planning that efficiently support the department. The Outreach Dietitian ensures that all meals and food items served meet USDA standards as described by the Child Nutrition Program. The position has a retirement association with the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS).
Job Requirements
The following are required:
The following are preferred:
Essential Job Functions
Physical /Mental Demands
The physical demands of this job require frequent standing, walking, sitting, speaking and hearing. Specific visual abilities are also required. The employee is regularly required to reach with his/her hands and arms and occasionally lift items weighing less than 40 lbs. Additionally, the employee must be able to understand vague and implicit instructions, be able to readily recall facts and details, handle conflict and make effective decisions under pressure. The employee must have the ability to effectively manage the stress of working with students, parents, and other employees representing diverse cultures, personalities, and work styles in a dynamic work environment.
The Anchorage School District is committed to providing reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all individuals with a qualified physical or mental disability.
Work Environment
Work is performed in a professional environment with a wide variety of individuals having differing functions, personalities and abilities, including working with diverse groups of people in a variety of different settings.
While performing the duties of this job the employee may be regularly exposed to a video display. The employee may be exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Additional Job Information
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job related duties as requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
Anchorage School District (ASD) employees must possess the ability to read and write in English. This also includes the ability to communicate in English with school staff, co-workers, and the public; as well as have the ability to comprehend and carry out oral and written directions and understand and follow English instructions and written documents.
Offers of employment are contingent upon completion of a satisfactory criminal background check. For certificated positions, this is in addition to the background check conducted through the certification process with the Alaska State Department of Education and Early Development (DEED).
This position may be required to work in ASD facilities on the military installations (JBER). Please visit the government REAL ID website for additional information.
The Anchorage School District is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Salary : $54,061 - $77,970
