WIC NUTRITION AID

Duties Summary

The primary purpose of this position is to provide assistance to Public Health Nutritionists by performing nutrition activities related to low-risk factors, including prescribing supplemental foods and providing education; the position also determines participant eligibility.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Basic Education Requirement: Experience requiring the ability to read, comprehend and apply written directions and a high degree of verbal skill in addition to the ability to perform arithmetic computations, including fractions, percentages and averages. This experience may be met from part-time and/or unpaid work.
• General Experience Requirement: One year of work experience which involved meeting and dealing effectively with people and which demonstrated the ability to:
  • establish and maintain positive relationships with people
  • provide and elicit pertinent information
• Either concurrently or separately, there must be evidence of demonstrated ability to organize materials; elicit information and write notes consisting of complete sentences based on such information; and use a keyboard to input alpha and numeric data.
• Substitution Allowed: Successful completion of thirty (30) semester credit hours of coursework from an accredited college or university which included at least six (6) semester credit hours of coursework in psychology, sociology, social work, or other behavioral science may be substituted for the General Experience on a year-for-year basis.
• Possession of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in Community Nutrition, Nutritional Sciences, or any other related Food Science or Nutrition major, may be substituted for all of the General and Specialized Experience requirements