WIC Dietitian/Nutrition Coordinator

Job Summary:

As a WIC Dietitian – Nutrition Coordinator, you'll play an important role in supporting women, infants, and children through personalized nutrition counseling, breastfeeding education, and community outreach. Beyond working directly with participants, you'll serve as a resource and mentor to WIC staff, helping strengthen nutrition services and ensure families receive the guidance and support they need to thrive.

Job Description:

What You'll Do

• Provide Nutrition Counseling: Deliver individualized, evidence-based nutrition and breastfeeding education to WIC participants, including those with medically high-risk nutritional needs.
• Support Healthy Families: Assess nutritional needs, identify health risks, develop personalized goals, and connect participants with appropriate resources and WIC benefits.
• Educate & Mentor Staff: Provide technical guidance, training, and ongoing support to WIC staff on nutrition counseling, program policies, and best practices.
• Coordinate Nutrition Programs: Develop engaging educational materials, group programs, and outreach initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles and support community needs.
• Ensure Quality & Compliance: Conduct chart audits, maintain accurate documentation, and support compliance with state and federal WIC guidelines.
• Collaborate & Connect: Partner with community organizations, healthcare professionals, and state WIC representatives to strengthen services and expand access to nutrition resources.
• Serve as a Nutrition Resource: Stay current on nutrition research, WIC policies, and medical formula guidelines while sharing relevant updates and recommendations with staff.

What We're Looking For

• A compassionate, approachable professional who enjoys working with women, infants, children, and families.
• Strong communication and counseling skills with the ability to make nutrition information easy to understand.
• A collaborative team player who enjoys educating, mentoring, and supporting others.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• A passion for community health, nutrition education, and helping families build healthy habits.

Requirements

• Registered Dietitian (RD) credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
• Current Maine State Dietitian license.

Compensation Information:

$29.09 - $50.91

The hourly pay range shown represents the base pay range for this position. Individual pay is determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, and market considerations. In addition to base pay, eligible team members may earn additional compensation through shift, weekend, holiday, on-call, and other applicable differentials. We are proud to offer a competitive total rewards package designed to recognize our caregivers and support them in delivering exceptional care to the communities we serve.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

30

Job Exempt:

No

Benefits:

Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.

Physical Wellness:

• We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.

• Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.

• A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.

Emotional Wellness:

When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.

Financial Wellness:

• Access the wages you’ve already earned before payday with Payactiv, giving you greater flexibility over your finances.

• Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.

• We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.

• Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.

• We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.

Career Mobility:

Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability  Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 .