Dietitian

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Employee Group: Staff

Time Category: Limited Hour
(< 1000 hours)

Annual Hours: 972

# of Months: 12

Hours Per Week:
8-24 hours per week

Work Dates: August 18 – May 22 11-16 hours per week as Nutritionist in Engle Center
(16 hours
per week won’t be needed every week)
July 1 – June 30 8 hours per week as Dietician

Position Summary

The
Dietician meets with students that have eating or nutritional problems to help them develop better diets, providing ongoing nutritional
counseling as needed.

Education Required

Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics or a related field and Registered
Dietitian/Nutritionist certification (RDN).

Experience Required

Minimum of one year of experience working
with eating and nutritional problems including a particular focus on eating disorders.

Skills, Characteristics Required for
Position

• Competence in the assessment of the nutritional adequacy of diets
• Strong skills in nutritional
  counseling and developmental psychology
• Understands the nature of eating disorders and how to work with such patients
• Ability to collaborate with other professionals
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Ability
  to maintain strict confidentiality

Special Working Conditions

N/A

Driving
Requirements

N/A

Essential Employee

N/A

Primary Duties

1. Provide
nutritional counseling to students, focusing on adequacy of diets and eating disorders.
2. Interact and consult with Counseling and
Health Services professional staff, the Department of Athletics, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Dining Services regarding
the treatment of students.
3. Act as a resource/liaison for students with allergies/special diet needs and dining services. Create
special diets for students with allergies.
4. Support dining operations with menu ideas and allergy updates.
5. Participate in health
education programming.
6. Provide consistent and reliable attendance.

Secondary Duties

1.Perform other
duties as assigned.

Supervises: # of Administrative: 0

Supervises: # of Staff: 0

Supervises: # of Student: 0

Diversity

Messiah University’s commitment to diversity and
inclusive excellence draws inspiration from its mission “to educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian
faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership and reconciliation in church and society.” The university has pursued this vision
through a strategic planning process that encourages diversity through employee and student composition, campus climate, and an educational
program that seeks to equip and enable educators and students to embrace diversity. Candidates should clearly articulate why diversity and
inclusive excellence matter to them as persons of faith as well as in their profession. Candidates will speak to how as a potential
employee, they will contribute to the advancement of this vision through their teaching-learning, research, institutional service, and
public engagement.