Registered Dietitican, Bilingual

Job Description

Job Description

TITLE : Registered Dietitian, Bilingual English / Spanish

DEPARTMENT : Nutrition Services

REPORTS TO : Senior Manager, Nutrition Services

LOCATION : 730 Polk Street

BENEFITS : Yes

STATUS : Full-time, Non-Exempt

CLASSIFICATION : Professionals

SUPERVISES : Interns

POSITION SUMMARY :

Be at the forefront of the Food is Medicine movement as a Registered Dietitian (RD), Bilingual, with Project Open Hand, one of the nation’s longest-standing and most respected providers of medically tailored meals and groceries. Based in both San Francisco and Oakland, you will join a dynamic, mission-driven Nutrition Services Department that is transforming healthcare through medically tailored nutrition. You’ll play a key role in delivering Medical Nutrition Therapy to some of the most vulnerable members of our communities—people living with critical and chronic illnesses who also face food insecurity, isolation, or the health impacts of aging.

The RD provides compassionate, client-centered nutritional assessment, counseling, and education via in-person, home-based, and telehealth visits. This role also supports the development of educational materials and curricula, contributes to innovative research and program evaluation, and collaborates on adapting meals and services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse client base.

This role will have an additional emphasis on supporting our Client Services team in providing outreach to key partners. You’ll work closely with various departments within POH as well as healthcare providers, community-based organizations, and local leaders to strengthen referral pathways into POH programs.

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional dietitian with a strong foundation in community nutrition and a passion for health equity. If you're committed to using your clinical expertise to make lasting change—and want to work where food is used as powerful medicine—this role is for you.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED :

• Registered Dietitian / Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
• Knowledge of food service and quality control
• Proficient in nutrition software programs, Computrition preferred
• Experience providing staff training / education
• Ability to work Saturdays and occasional evenings
• Bilingual English / Spanish

QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED :

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

JOB COMPETENCIES :

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT : The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Physical demands : While performing duties of job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 20 pounds unassisted. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Work environment : The noise level in the work environment varies from moderate to loud. The work environment will be ever changing with new clients, volunteers and staff members all sharing space and working together in the Grocery Center