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 with part-time and/or unpaid work. There must, however, be evidence that participation was on a continuous, but not necessarily normal work, basis.
• General Experience Requirement: One year of work experience which involved meeting and dealing effectively with people and which demonstrated the ability to: (1) establish and maintain positive relationships with people and (2) provide and elicit pertinent information. In addition, 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.
• 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).

Substitution of Education for Experience

• 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 the General and Specialized Experience requirements.