Nutrition Education Specialist

Capital Area Food Bank • Washington, DC

267d • $60,200 - $63,500

About The Position

It is an exciting time at the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) as we continue to undertake our mission. We know that creating long term solutions to food security requires more than meals. It requires education, training, and collaboration. We are seeking people with strong ideas and a passion to come together to address the complex interrelated issues of food security, poverty, and equity. We are expanding in multiple ways: providing food for today and addressing the root causes of hunger by partnering with organizations that provide critical services like job training programs, health care and education. Food has the power to transform lives and move everyone forward. Find out how on our website at capitalareafoodbank.org. Let us discuss how food is at the center of everyone's healthy life! The Nutrition Education Specialist will develop, facilitate, and manage core nutrition education and food promotion programming and help maintain our food inventory database. The Specialist will directly implement ongoing partner-focused food promotion activities including food demonstrations/samplings on and off site, educational displays, virtual/in person classes and workshops and videos for our recipe card library. They also will collaborate with community health partnerships that align with CAFB initiatives, develop educational materials, program curricula, and ensure work is collaborative across the organization. The Nutrition Education Specialist will develop and teach several nutrition education initiatives in our teaching kitchen and in the community. They will also run our healthy pantry initiative for our partners, assist with administrative tasks related to our partners and clients and work with our Food Growing Specialist on joint activities and initiatives.

Requirements

• 1-2 years program administration experience in the development and oversight of nutrition education programs.
• 4-year bachelor's degree in nutrition, dietetics, public health or similar.
• Experience developing evidenced-based educational programming for community members with low incomes.
• Displays working knowledge of healthy food preparation, food safety, recipe development, cooking improvisation, and reputable sourcing of nutrition information.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience and competency with various data management systems.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office programs.
• Experience working with culturally diverse populations.

Nice To Haves

• At least one year of professional experience in food promotion and non-profit experience strongly preferred.
• Project management experience, including budgeting and evaluation, preferred.
• Detail-orientated with ability to perform basic data analysis.
• Bilingual (Spanish), preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, schedule, promote, and execute workshops for our partners and the community.
• Contribute to the partners and programs strategy in alignment with the CAFB strategic plan.
• Conduct workshops, cooking classes, food demos/food samplings virtually or on site, at partner sites and in the community.
• Help manage implementation and maintenance of the healthy pantry initiative.
• Send out wellness reports to partners, promote the program in coordination with the CAFB's regional teams, and implement additional educational opportunities for full cohort.
• Run a yearly review of our inventory to ensure the accuracy of our food labeling.
• Work in collaboration with multiple teams across the CAFB and oversee development of cohesive educational materials, food promotion activities, and resources for a variety of audiences.
• Oversee internal and external communications around partner trainings, food promotion and community partnerships.
• Design, conduct nutrition analysis for and distribute nutrition education materials.
• Order and oversee distribution of recipe cards to our partners and at our direct distribution programs.
• Continue to build our recipe card video library.
• Coordinate with regional teams to ensure educational materials are included at regional information hubs.
• Assist with performance data review (financial, grant, and activity reports) to monitor and measure productivity, goal progress, and activity levels.
• Evaluate nutrition and wellness programs impact through surveys and data analysis.
• Participate in local food policy councils in coordination with other CAFB staff as needed.
• Build relationships with partners, community organizations, colleges/universities, hospitals and others through CAFB programming.
• Help manage educational spaces at CAFB including CAFB's Teaching Kitchen and Nutrition Education 'closet'.
• Help manage inventory of nutrition education resources.
• Help train and supervise 2-4 nutrition education interns per year to support nutrition education programming, such as cooking demonstrations and other community- and/or partner-facing activities.
• Assist other departments with nutrition education goals across the organization.
• Timely and consistent expense tracking.
• Promote nutrition and gardening programing.
• Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.
• Oversee interns and/or their work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Free onsite parking.
• Complimentary shuttle to metro.
• Professional development, growth, and volunteer opportunities.
• Fun work in a diverse environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Social Assistance
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree