Sports Dietitian
Iowa State University has an opening for a Sports Dietitian I position in Athletics. Seeking candidates with a passion to elevate student athlete performance through cutting edge nutrition strategies, hands on education, and a passion for helping competitors from a variety of sports thrive. If you’re driven to make a measurable impact, this is your opportunity to join a team where your expertise becomes a competitive advantage. Initial sport assignment will be assisting across multiple Olympic and Football programs.
What you’ll do
- Provide evidenced-based nutrition services via individualized and team assessment, counseling, and support.
- Deliver nutrition education to individuals, teams, recruits and coaches through a variety of methods.
- Collect, organize and present data in a way that is useful, collaborate and enhances sports performance decision making: perform DEXA body composition assessments, conduct hydration and/or sweat rate testing, and more as assigned.
- Assist with planning team meals and fueling for away competitions. Collaborate with on-site culinary team and off-site food vendors to support execution of fueling service needs.
- Assist with procurement, inventory management, and food safety standards for assigned sport.
- Collaborate on strategies and needs to enhance player performance.
- Assist with managing student-workers/interns.
- Assist with identifying disordered eating and referring student to appropriate resources.
The successful candidate must have knowledge base of sport nutrition curriculum; possess strong communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively and help write effective educational materials and presentations; be highly organized; and maintain confidentiality. Candidates are expected to be committed to multiculturalism and working with a diverse student body. Requires the ability to work outside normal business hours with a flexible schedule that includes evenings and weekends and overnight travel with the team. This is an in-person/on-sight position.
Required Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree. Registered dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Must have and maintain licensure as a Licensed Dietitian in the State of Iowa.
Application Instructions:
To view full job details and to apply visit https://www.jobs.iastate.edu/. All applications must be submitted on-line in Workday by February 8th to guarantee consideration.
Iowa State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran. Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies may be directed to Office of Equal Opportunity, 2680 Beardshear Hall, 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Iowa 50011, Tel. 515-294-7612, email eooffice@iastate.edu.
About the ISU Athletics Department
As an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision athletics program and a founding member of the Big 12 Conference, Iowa State University sponsors 18 intercollegiate athletics teams and supports 450 student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence. ISU Athletics employs over 250 talented and dedicated full-time staff members, more than 500 temporary and student employees, and multiple auxiliary partners who collaboratively work within a culture to support and enhance the experiences of Cyclone student-athletes and their loyal fan base. Iowa State student-athletes have produced 10-consecutive years of record-setting Graduation Success Rate scores in the classroom, while athletically, the Cyclones have captured 19 national team championships, 140 national individual titles and 162 conference team championships in its rich history. www.cyclones.com