Date:
3/10/2007
The Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS);
Job
Division of Public Health (DPH), Western Regional
Description: Office in Eau Claire
is seeking a Public Health Nutrition Consultant.
For Who: Health Promotion and Human Development
This position is responsible for assuring that the specialty of
public health nutrition is incorporated into local health
departments, community partners agencies, schools, child
care facilities, WIC, and hospitals. This position is
responsible for planning, coordinating, developing, and
evaluating public health programs and services at state,
regional, and local levels. This position assures that public
health nutrition programs and services comply with the
American Dietetic Association standards and state statutes;
Job Duties:
promotes high quality public health nutrition services
through education and training; provides technical assistance
to local health departments, tribal agencies, and community
based organizations; monitors and conducts surveillance of
the nutritional status of specific and general populations;
develops resources essential to public health nutrition
services; negotiates and administers secondary grant
contracts; and provides public health nutrition leadership to
WIC and public health agencies.
Knowledge of principles and practice of public health
nutrition, with an in-depth level of knowledge and skill in
lifecycle nutrition and food systems; mastery of the process
and practice of consultation; strategic and operational public
health planning and the organization of public health
agencies and nutrition resources; public health program
activities, operations, and partnerships for the purpose of
assessing community needs; ability to provide expert
Knowledge, technical assistance to health administrators, nutrition policy
Skills,
makers, and nutrition professionals; ability to guide
Abilities : consultees in agency operational planning and in integrating
nutrition objectives into the planning process; organize or
conduct education programs on topics for nutrition and
health professionals; present ideas orally and in writing in a
clear, concise, persuasive, and politically-sensitive manner to
health administrators, health professionals and
representatives of community agencies; and ability to work
with relative autonomy, but within agency and program
guidance.
This is a part-time position. Starting salary is between
$22.948 and $25.095 per hour.
Other:
The deadline to receive application/examination materials
is March 29, 2007.
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Send application/examination materials to:
Veronica Law
Room 555
1 West Wilson Street
PO Box 7850
Madison, WI 53707-7850
Contact:
or FAX (608) 267-2147 or mail to LawVB@dhfs.state.wi.us
You can get the State Application form at the OSER website
http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=1121
or call to request one at (608) 267-9893 (voice) or (888)
701-1251 (TextNet)