Registered Dietitian, Bilingual

Registered Dietitian, Bilingual English/Spanish

Join Project Open Hand, a leader in the Food is Medicine movement, as a Registered Dietitian (RD) in San Francisco and Oakland. This full-time, hybrid position offers benefits including medical, dental, vision, PTO, sick time, holidays, retirement plan, and commuter benefits.

As a bilingual RD, you'll deliver Medical Nutrition Therapy to vulnerable populations facing food insecurity, isolation, or health impacts of aging. Your role includes nutritional assessment, counseling, education, and collaboration with healthcare providers and community organizations.

Qualifications include:

• Registered Dietitian / Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
• Registered Dietitian EXAM ELIGIBLE
• 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

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years experience as a Registered Dietitian
• Familiarity with San Francisco and East Bay community health and social service landscapes
• Experience working with people living with HIV/AIDS, other critical and chronic diseases, and the elderly
• Experience developing and executing community-based nutrition education classes
• Cooking, recipe and food preparation experience and comfort teaching basic kitchen skills
• Experience working with vulnerable populations
• Ability to apply strong clinical skills in a community-based setting

Essential functions and responsibilities include:

• Deliver compassionate, client-centered Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Lead the development, review, and implementation of nutrition guidelines
• Design, coordinate, and facilitate nutrition education workshops
• Conduct group sessions including cooking classes and nutrition education
• Provide staff education and training on nutrition, food safety, and sanitation
• Serve as a preceptor and mentor for dietetic interns
• Maintain detailed and timely documentation to support grants, contracts, and research initiatives
• Participate in and lead performance improvement projects
• Conduct regular quality assurance audits
• Support the mission of Project Open Hand with flexibility and collaboration

Job competencies include:

• Team player
• Self-led
• Sensitive to the circumstances and needs of critically ill and seniors
• Customer oriented
• Poised
• Ethical
• Decisive
• Knowledgeable
• Well organized
• Technical savvy
• Leadership I
• Problem solver
• Professional communicator

Physical demands and work environment include:

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.