WIC NUTRITION ASSISTANT

Duties Summary

The primary purpose of this position is to provide assistance to the Public Health Nutritionists by performing nutrition activities related to low-risk factors, including prescribing supplemental foods and providing nutritional 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

• Specialized Experience Requirement: For the Nutrition Assistant, applicants must provide certificate of satisfactory completion of a State approved training program for paraprofessionals to provide nutrition services for the WIC program. The training program must meet standards set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Other Information

Complete Application Packet at: Application packet at: https://health.hawaii.gov/employment/job-opportunities/

Recruitment deadline is continuous.