Student Dining Dietitian (Hopkins Dining)

About the role

We are seeking a university-wide Student Dining Dietitian to provide nutrition education, counseling, and support to Johns Hopkins students.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual nutrition consultations and follow-up support to students across the Homewood and Peabody campuses.
• Meet with students who have food allergies, intolerances, medically indicated dietary needs, or other special dietary requirements to understand their needs, preferences, and dining concerns.
• Develop, communicate, and document student-specific dining accommodation plans and maintain a weekly record of student consultations and follow-up activity.
• Communicate with students both in person and via email to help them identify how to eat a safe, healthy, and complete meal while dining in Hopkins facilities.
• Coordinate with the Director of Culinary Innovation, Dining leadership, chefs, managers, and retail teams to identify menu or operational solutions when student needs are not being met.
• Provide on-site follow-up in dining locations to confirm accommodations can be executed effectively and identify opportunities for operational improvement.
• Provide education and development to frontline staff and managers related to nutrition, food allergies, special diets, dining accommodations, and student-specific protocols.
• Develop and present student and staff education, tabling programs, nutrition resources, and multidisciplinary well-being programming.
• Provide leadership and direction related to student nutrition care and collaborate on nutrition-related website, digital, social media, and printed communications.
• Aid in nutrition- and allergy-related policies, accreditation projects, meetings, studies, and continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining appropriate professional development.
• Be self-directed and independent, work effectively in an interdisciplinary team setting, communicate in a timely manner, treat students and colleagues with compassion and respect, and perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Focus time on supporting students at Homewood Dining and Peabody Conservatory.
• Provide regular on-site student support, partner on educational events, assist with dining accommodations, and work directly with individual students with special dietary needs.
• Maintain a visible student engagement presence within dining halls through consultations, tabling, education, and relationship building with students and staff.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience providing nutrition counseling and support to a diverse student or young-adult population.
• Knowledge of food allergies, special dietary needs, dining accommodations, and foodservice operations.
• Strong interpersonal, counseling, presentation, documentation, and communication skills with the ability to work on-site and build effective relationships with students and Dining teams.