Community Nutrition Education Coordinator

General Description:  The Nutrition Education Coordinator will work under the guidance of the Nutrition, Health & Wellness Education (NHWE) Program Manager to support a variety of engaging nutrition education programs for children, adults, and healthcare professionals. We support our partners by providing the education, tools, and mentoring needed to teach in a wide array of settings. Duties include scheduling and conducting nutrition, health & wellness activities, food insecurity trainings, and food safety trainings.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure the strategic implementation of a recruitment plan to engage partners in underserved areas by researching the community for gaps in service.
• Collaborate with SAFB partner agencies and other SAFB departments (Client Services, NHWE, Partner Agencies, Children’s Programs, etc.) to address food insecurity among families and support efforts in other programs.
• Create partnerships with San Antonio Food Bank partners to strengthen our approach of connecting to food and education.
• Support annual trainings with partners that consists of, at a minimum, food insecurity training, food safety training, required civil rights training reminder, and reminder of all other required trainings and procedures to align with program partners.
• Maintain, evaluate, and develop relationships with new partners and/or sites consistent with goals set forth in the operating plan and connect to other SAFB services.
• Build awareness of the program by facilitating presentations at partner sites to recruit clients.
• Work to continually reinforce relationships with partners interested in nutrition, health and wellness classes and food benefits.
• Provide partner sites with materials and information needed to refer their clients ensuring all program procedures are followed.
• Meet all reporting requirements, including submission of class schedules, participant numbers, class demographic information, progress reports, number of produce bags delivered, and any other deliverable metrics required by grants supporting this initiative.
• Develop processes to ensure effective interdisciplinary implementation of the intervention keeping in mind continuous quality services for participants.
• Ensure site selection of class participants meets program goals and criteria.
• Complete all necessary preparations for program activities, including, assembling class materials and transportation of equipment.
• Complete evaluations and other reporting documentation as necessary.
• Maintain inventory and ensure all supplies/materials are available for all program activities.
• Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

• Health professional with strong background in nutrition and community outreach or

experience working and educating in community settings.

• Ability to engage with community members of various backgrounds.
• Experience in training and supervision.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, public speaking ability.
• Ability to manage time efficiently and to work independently with minimum supervision.  
• Ability to work cooperatively with other staff, volunteers and agency personnel.
• Detail orientated, ability to use good judgment, discretion and meet deadlines.
• Ability to represent the Food Bank in a courteous and professional manner.
• Access to reliable transportation.
• Possession of a current Texas driver’s license, liability insurance, and a clean driving record.
• Schedule flexibility, work will involve weekends and evenings.

Preferred:

• Bilingual (Spanish)

Physical Demands

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly required to sit, talk, hear, keyboard, and utilize fine manipulation and near visual acuity. The employee is required to stand, walk, utilize gross manipulation, push, pull, reach, and stoop. The employee must occasionally lift, and/or move between 35 to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment is primarily indoors but will require time outside in a variety of conditions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but could increase based on the machinery operating at that time.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work to be performed and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties.