Director of Olympic Sports Nutrition, Department of Athletics (R0007190)

The Director of Olympic Sports Nutrition manages the provision of nutrition-related services to Olympic sport and basketball student-athletes during training, practice, rehabilitation, competition and recovery.

Essential Functions:

• Provide nutritional counseling and educational programming for Olympic sport and basketball individual student-athletes and teams.
• Counsel athletes on optimal nutrition for exercise training (match nutrition to training phases and goals), competition, weight goals, hydration, and supplementation.
• Identify and mitigate nutritional challenges to performance, such as food allergies and intolerances, gastrointestinal disturbances, and iron-deficiency anemia.
• Conduct body composition assessments (DEXA), interpret the data, and counsel athletes on achieving and maintaining values that maximize health and performance.
• Participate as the committee member of the Wake performance nutrition staff on the EAT team (committee for eating disorders for students and athletes comprised of physicians, dietitians, sports medicine, and psychologists)
• Assist with travel nutrition needs for sports, including but not limited to snack bags, performance menus, halftime/dugout snacks, and post-game meals.
• Manage inventory, ordering, receiving, distributing, and procuring goods for the Nutrition Zone and Olympic sports in conjunction with the Nutrition Zone manager.
• Provide consistent communication to the coaching staff, sports performance staff, sports medicine staff, team physicians, and department psychologists regarding sports nutrition and performance-related issues.
• Effectively collaborates with the Assistant AD of Football Nutrition daily.
• Meets with prospective student-athletes as requested during unofficial and official visits.
• Attend various staff meetings as requested (e.g., medical, sport performance, etc.).

Other Functions:

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Ability to travel and work nights, weekends, and holidays.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Registered Dietitian with active registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN) in the state of North Carolina within 3 months of hire; required temporary license within 30 days to practice per state law.
• Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) within 1 year of hire.
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in collegiate athletics.
• Must possess problem-solving and critical thinking skills, innovation and creativity, adaptability, initiative, and stress tolerance to various situations in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Must be able to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues, coaches, student-athletes, physicians, and other allied health professionals.
• Ability to work a non-standard work-week, including early mornings, late nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, non-traditional work hours, and overnight travel as needed.
• Knowledge of food service quality and safety procedures.
• Ability and willingness to comply with disclosure regulations relative to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Master’s degree in sports nutrition, exercise physiology, sports psychology, or other health-related field.
• Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) upon hire or able to sit for test upon hire.
• Working knowledge of ACC and NCAA rules and regulations.

Accountabilities:

• Responsible for own work
• Supervision of nutrition intern and student staff
• Tracking and management of nutrition budget