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Giant Food Hyattsville, MD Healthy Living Specialist Community Nutritionist
Job ID JL1731 posted on 11/16/22

Salary Range:
$75-80k

Starting Date:
ASAP

Position Description

Giant Food has an immediate opening for a Registered Dietitian with a passion for all things Healthy Living. Looking for a bilingual, social media savvy individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for Hispanic Community outreach to join our team. If you enjoy working with a talented team that works on impactful projects for associates and customers and are willing to lead new and innovative projects of your own, this may be the job for you.

Essential Duties:
• Provide evidence-based personalized nutrition counseling to customers and associates.
• Develop, coordinate, and execute in-store and in-community nutrition programs within Giant Food service areas.
• Programs include nutrition store tours, classes, webinars, seminars, cook-alongs, health fairs and employer wellness programs.
• Actively seek and nurture new community partnerships with local healthcare providers, schools, universities, government agencies, and businesses.
• Create and deliver evidence-based health and wellness content for marketing channels including podcast, blog, social media, Savory magazine, seasonal mailers, educational materials, newspapers, and trade magazines.
• Represent Giant as the nutrition expert in various media outlets including television, radio, newspaper and social media to promote the Giant brand.
• Serve as a serve as the voice for our Spanish-speaking customers and associates on assigned tasks and projects within the Healthy Living team.
• Collaborate with key internal departments such as Pharmacy, Human Resources, Store Ops, Marketing, Public Relations, Sustainable Retailing, RBS, and Merchandising teams to execute Healthy Living programs across the Brand.
• Represent Giant at company-sponsored events.
• Work closely with the Healthy Living Manager and Healthy Living Director on special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Skills/Competencies Needed:
• BS in Human Nutrition, Registered Dietitian (RD), MS in Nutrition or Education preferred
• Bilingual, Spanish-speaking strongly preferred.
• Keen knowledge of food and consumer trends, human nutrition standards and recommendations, and food preparation and culinary trends
• MS Office knowledge including Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work well in groups
• Ability to organize diverse workload and handle multiple projects
• Available to work evenings and weekends on a regular basis
• Ability to lift boxes (25 pounds or less) and transport boxes to events
• Ability to travel frequently within assigned region and to the corporate office as needed