Nutrition Services Specialist (for family child care)

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for Family Child Care is a federal program that supports licensed family child care providers in serving nutritious meals and snacks to children in their care. Through federal reimbursement, training, technical assistance, and guidance on regulatory compliance, CACFP helps providers improve the quality of their child care environments, promote healthy eating habits, and ensures children receive balanced meals that support healthy development. The successful delivery of the CACFP requires regular use of technology for data entry, communication, reporting, and documentation to ensure adherence to all state and federal regulations.

ROLE SUMMARY

The CACFP Specialist at Child Care Resource Center is a motivated individual who will initiate relationships with child care home businesses. The primary roles of this position include operations/monitoring, data collection and business growth for small, licensed family child care home businesses. This position combines field work, home visits, and office or remote-based responsibilities.

What You'll Do

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Create a climate in which people want to do their best. Contribute improvements in techniques affecting CACFP operations.
• Work closely with your caseload to identify and brainstorm strategies to improve program success, nutritional programming and overall business stability.
• Develop and host on-boarding process for new CACFP family child care home businesses
• Perform CACFP caseload quality audits on a monthly basis
• Process child applications, menu compliance and support
• Work with an assigned caseload of homes, ensuring that they are successful and claiming monthly.
• Track child attendance as it relates to food served and the monthly claims
• Monitor participating family child care home businesses onsite for compliance with federal CACFP requirements
• Maintain systems/procedures for the CACFP program
• Assist supervisor with annual CACFP application and audit processes
• Assuming other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
• Oversee monthly CACFP claim using custom software and report any findings to supervisor
• Identify corrective action issues and document, monitor and follow up to ensure corrections have been made
• Verify data accuracy
• Create and implement weekly, monthly and annual strategies to ensure compliance and program success
• Problem solves using new and innovative ideas with the goal of creating great customer experience
• Maintain CRM database with accurate information and work to increase leads to improve recruitment efforts
• Identify innovative strategies to make 212 degrees your personal target
• Monitor marketing/recruitment campaigns for effectiveness and reach
• Train and provide ongoing technical assistance to CACFP family child care home businesses on CACFP program operations using methods that meet provider needs

Requirements

QUALIFICATION:

• At least 3 years of experience with Ohio’s CACFP program
• Reliable transportation – insured. This position requires frequent travel to support family child care providers across the service area
• Excellent written and oral communication, data management, and organization skills
• This role requires strong proficiency with technology, as the CACFP for Family Child Care is moving toward a paperless system for reporting, documentation, and communication.
• Professionalism and a commitment to maintaining high standards in all interactions and responsibilities are essential for this role
• Recognizes the importance of teamwork
• Ability to relate to a broad spectrum of community organizations, child care providers.
• Restaurant management experience
• Associates Degree (Bachelor Degree preferred) business or school food program administrator experience
• Ability to motivate team or caseload and make each individual feel his/her work is important
• Excellent data management and organization skills

Nice To Haves

Previous experience as a sponsor specialist in Ohio. This would bring added value in this role and contribute to achieving our goals.

Benefits

• Benefits:

  The role will start as a part-time position (30 hours per week) and is expected to expand to full-time status within 12 months.

  Benefits : Medical (CCRC pays 70%), Life

  (paid by employer), 403b Retirement, Sick Leave, Vacation Time

  Hybrid work schedule available after 3 months (onboarding process)