Nutritionist Job in Kenya

Mar 24, 2016

Job Title: Nutritionist
 

Responsibilities

• Creating, delivering and evaluating a range of practical and educational food-based initiatives to encourage healthy lifestyle changes;


• Supporting individuals, communities and workforces, to make positive, practical changes to their food choices and general health;


• Advising sports professionals on how diet can optimize their performance, enhance recovery from injury and between training sessions, and achieve optimum body size and build for their sport;


• Delivering presentations and workshops on areas such as health education/promotion, behavioural and lifestyle change, weight management and eating for performance;


• Providing nutritional information for food production and helping to secure approval for health claims on packaging;


• Promoting nutritional advice via press, website content, e-learning tutorials and webinars, seminars, audio and video podcasts and social media


• Reviewing literature and undertaking market research and product surveys;


• Conducting nutrition assessments to clients


• Counseling and offering wellness coaching to clients.


• Advocating change and leading and writing policy.

Qualifications

• A degree/diploma in nutritional science, dietetics, or food science.


• Relevant work experience of at least 2 years


• Team working skills


• Keen interest in the impact of diet on health


• Good interpersonal skills

All qualified candidates should send their resume to monicah@nawirikenya.com with the subject line NUTRITIONIST by 26th March 2016.