Assistant Director, Sports Performance Nutrition

Major Responsibilities

• Provide nutritional care and education to student-athletes, work collaboratively with team physicians, campus healthcare professionals, coaches and staff to maximize student-athlete performance, health and well-being;
• Assess and counsel student-athletes on optional nutritional practices;
• Assess and counsel student athletes regarding sport-specific and gender-specific recommendations for optimal body composition and weight for overall health and athletic performance;
• Develop and counsel in hydration protocols;
• Educate and develop resources to support educational efforts regarding the nutritional needs of a student athlete;
• Operate fueling station for teams to assist athletes in meeting daily energy requirements for high level performance.

Administrative Duties

• Serve as a resource for sport coaches, athletic trainers, and strength & coaches, team physicians, mental health staff, and administration regarding sports nutrition and sports performance related issues;
• Stay current on industry-related trends regarding food, nutrition, and health issues and research related to sports performance nutrition;
• Develop and oversee nutrition policies and procedures;
• Evaluate sports supplements, for legality, safety, quality, and efficacy, and identify NCAA compliant products to be distributed and consumed by student-athletes including continual research of the changing sports supplement industry;
• Assess and counsel student-athletes on appropriate and legal use of dietary supplements, regularly banned drugs and restricted substances in compliance with sport governing bodies; e.g. NCAA, U.S. Anti-doping Agency (USADA), World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) and the Division of Athletics policies;
• Conform with and abide by all Department, University, NCAA, and CAA Conference policies and procedures;
• Communicate, educate, and work closely with Managers of Team Operations and sport coaches to provide best options for specific team needs;
• Provide counsel and recommendations to coaching and operations staffs for nutrition for home and travel games as it pertains to sport-specific pre-game/post-game meals, for example, catering, hotels, competition for team;
• Oversee duties and management of undergraduate and/or graduate students within Behavioral Health and Nutrition Department; and/or dietetic interns;
• Partner with the Director of Sports Performance Nutrition with duties related to being a department liaison to school of agriculture and farm supervisor for ongoing student-athlete garden, produce from School of Agriculture and any associated opportunities for student/student-athlete internships;
• Partner with the Director of Sports Performance Nutrition with duties related to being a department liaison to campus dining services personnel in order to program dining hall tours and education;
• Partner with the Director of Sports Performance Nutrition with duties related to being a department liaison to on-campus kitchen cooking demo facility to program team cooking demos;
• Comply with industry standard and campus requirements related to documentation of patient visits.

Programming Duties

• Partners with campus dining services to incorporate and operate a department-wide food option program;
• Serves as the department lead on the development of meal and nutrition/fueling station programs;
• Plans and executes initiatives and special projects;
• Meet with prospective student athletes as requested by sport coaches;
• Develop, coordinate, and teach nutrition education, cooking programs and grocery store tours for student-athletes;
• Plan and execute grocery store tours and dining hall tours with individual athletes or teams;
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.