Coordinator Breast Feeding-Pediatrics Administration-Mount Sinai Morningside-Full-time day

Coordinator Of Breast Feeding

The Coordinator of Breast Feeding is responsible for providing administrative, operational and programmatic support services to an assigned program area. The Program provides a specific service or carries out specific activities as a separate entity or as a component program within a department, but is not a department itself. A Program is ongoing, but may have a business cycle.

Responsibilities

1. Educate and support pregnant and postpartum patients on breastfeeding benefits, techniques, and overcoming challenges.
2. Provide one-on-one Nutrition counseling to WIC participants, groups, and individual sessions to breastfeeding, pregnant and postpartum patients
3. Ensure that breastfeeding policies align with New York State WIC guidelines and best practices.
4. Prescribe, tailor, authorize and reissued WIC food packages
5. Maintains liaison with staff in other departments to coordinate program activities and training; to accomplish program objectives; and to ensure cooperative efforts are enhanced and available resources are utilized.
6. Assists in monitoring and evaluating program effectiveness; demonstrates continuous efforts to improve support operations and systems, to streamline work processes and to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the program.
7. Provides assistance to staff in assigned areas to ensure program objectives are accomplished.
8. May coordinate and oversees grant related issues, reporting of program statistics and the implementation of data collection procedures.
9. Assists in administering program procedures and systems. May ensure information is disseminated to staff regarding program and Mount Sinai Medical Center's policies and procedures.
10. Assists in the planning, coordination and implementation of seminars, conferences and workshops. Recommends new ideas and concepts for program themes, materials and resources to supplement, expand or replace existing program components.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Nutrition from an accredited College or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience may substitute for the degree when the experiences are closely related to the duties of the job.
• None required, but 1-2 years administrative experience preferred.

Required Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite

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Job Info

• Job Identification 3033045
• Job Category Administrative
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations 361 W 125th St, New York, NY, 10027, US