Sports Dietitian

Position Title:

Sports Dietitian

Job Group:

Professional & Scientific

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience providing nutrition services to intercollegiate or professional athletes.
Experience identifying or working with eating disorders.
Experience in food service operations.

Job Description:

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. 
• Perform all duties in adherence with NCAA, Big 12, and university policies. 

  

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. 

  

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an on-going basis without sponsorship. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. 

Level Guidelines
• Individual contributor position with developing professional and/or technical skills working under immediate to general supervision
• Grasps professional-level knowledge and concepts of field while working in a progressive learning mode
• Works on problems and issues of somewhat limited scope
• Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data for which answers are available or can be obtained
• Responds to inquiries and issues, escalating to manager or higher level workers as appropriate
• May lead projects of limited scope and complexity
• May provide guidance to students

About the 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 championsh