What are the responsibilities and job description for the Virtual Bilingual Arabic/English Nutrition Specialist, Contract position at Enara Health?
About Enara
Enara is a world-renowned obesity and medical weight loss start-up, based in Silicon Valley, pioneering the use of data, digital, and clinical treatments to provide personalized plans with measurable results. Enara was founded by people from Stanford, UCSF, Kaiser, ClassPass & Evernote. Our mission is to develop the first ever platform to scale obesity treatment. Our platform allows for the latest breakthroughs in nutrition, exercise, and obesity science to be optimized and delivered in a series of personalized and programmable experiences. Our solutions are disseminated through unified products and services we deploy for the healthcare ecosystem; with a current focus on small to medium sized medical groups and clinics. Our platform has served over 14,000 members and delivers world leading 16% weight loss sustained over 3 years. We deliver life changing care to members and we are redesigning the clinic-patient . We are backed by Offline.VC, Charge.VC, VSC, Continuum Ventures, as well as many prominent angels in Silicon Valley.
Role:
We are seeking an enthusiastic, friendly and organized Nutrition Specialist who is passionate about treating obesity as a disease to improve the myriad chronic health conditions associated with weight- including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and more- to join our team. In this role, you will see patients via tele-health and work with a multidisciplinary team including Registered Dietitians and medical providers to provide best-in-class care and outcomes for your patients - communicating with them both synchronously and asynchronously.
\n- We are looking for those with:
- a 4 year Nutrition and Dietetics degree, with at least 1 year experience coaching lifestyle and habit changes using nutrition and exercise. The Nutrition Specialist will work closely under a lead RD to provide evidence-based obesity science and nutrition advice.
- Bachelor's degree in Food &/or Nutritional Science.
- Minimum 12 months of experience in clinical nutrition as a Registered Dietitian, working with patients with Diabetes or other metabolic diseases a plus.
- Current registration w/ the Commission on Dietetic Registry (CDR) in good standing.
- Knowledge of clinical competencies based on Nutrition Care Standards of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.
- Strong proficiency and experience with medical technology including EMR and mobile apps.
- Collaboration & problem solving skills required.
- Ability to manage a large patient load and multiple touchpoints, both in face to face and app communication.
- Strong ability to empathize and connect with patients on a regular long term basis.
- Experience and comfortability working with our proprietary tech app.
- Bilingual (Arabic) medical fluency is a MUST as this role starts with a primarily Arabic speaking population.
- Previous experience in curriculum development.
- Demonstrated knowledge of behavior change.
- Previous individual, small group and large group/classroom training/teaching experience.
- Part time contractor (flexible depending on interest/availability) to potential full time salaried opportunity
- Employee and health benefits provided with 75% time or more
- Compensation variable on experience, credentials, and language proficiency
- Ability to work consistent hours primarily in Pacific time zone
Salary : $30 - $40
