What are the responsibilities and job description for the WIC Dietitian position at City of El Paso?
Manage nutritional programs and services. Involves: Evaluate and monitor nutritional programs and services. Ensure program operations are in compliance with local, state and federal regulations. Observe efficiency and effectiveness of program operations and make recommendations concerning operational improvements. Assist in developing policies and procedures necessary to carry out specific programs or projects. Provide high risk counseling to WIC participants and technical assistance to clinics, other agencies and institutions or individuals to aid in nutrition education program. Investigate complaints and resolve client problems pertaining to nutrition services subject to local, state and federal standards. Interview qualified participants and their families to obtain nutritional information.
Provide nutrition education including breast feeding information and dietary counseling services to institutions and clinics. Coordinate the development of nutritional plans and training materials for education. Plan and conduct in-service training sessions to upgrade nutrition knowledge of health care providers and employees directly involved in nutrition education. Assist in annual grant writing for programs as needed. Attend trainings and conferences pertaining to nutrition education and apply local, state and federal updates to programs as needed. Conduct special projects as assigned.
Supervise assigned staff. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide developmental opportunities for staff, monitors training, maintains files and schedules appropriate training as needed. Enforce personnel rules and regulations, and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.
For complete job specification, click herePlease note: This is an unclassified contract position. Employment is predicated on continuation of state/federal funding.
Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.
A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.
To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position
Salary : $51,240 - $79,310
