New Bedford Community Health Center · 3 weeks ago
Director of New Bedford WIC Program
New Bedford MA - New Bedford, MA 02740
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$70K/yr - $101K/yr
2+ years expNew Bedford Community Health Center is dedicated to providing high-quality care to meet the diverse needs of its patients. The Director of the WIC Program is responsible for the overall administration and management of the nutrition program, which includes providing healthy foods, education, breastfeeding support, and referrals to healthcare services for qualifying families.
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Responsibilities
Plans, implements, and evaluates program operations to ensure compliance with federal regulations and state policies and procedures, including all procedures relating to: WIC checks and vendors, Management Information System, Caseload Management, Fiscal Operations, Data quality, Quality assurance, Staff deployment, Sites-opening and relocation, Management Evaluation
Acts as a liaison between the sponsoring agency and the state WIC office and between local program and health and human service agencies
Hires and promotes ongoing supervision and annual evaluations for senior nutritionists, assistant director, and community coordinators
Trains in coordination with The Learning center Staff, community coordinators, and program assistants
Defines (with the senior nutritionist) staff responsibilities, work schedules., participant service hours and client flow
Ensures that WIC staff of up-to-date, knowledge and skills by: Requiring staff to attend state-sponsored conferences and business meetings and in-services. Conducting regular staff meetings to share information resolve problems. Connecting annual staff reviews (in collaboration with senior nutritionist). Providing annual civil rights training, annual customer service training, and domestic violence training for all staff. Ensuring that all staff of obtains 10 CEU credits annually
Qualification
Required
Ability to demonstrate leadership, and decision-making capabilities
Interest in nutrition and maternal child health
Ability to articulate program goals and policies to participants, healthcare providers, community agencies and vendors. Good communication skills both oral and written required
Working knowledge of grant writing and budget preparation
Bachelor's degree in public health, public administration, nutrition, and two years' experience in program administration, with supervisory experience
Minimum of two years' experience in a W.I.C. program preferred
2-3 years supervisory and management experience
Experience in program planning and administration
Preferred
Degree in Nutrition preferred
RD/LDN preferred
Benefits
Affordable, low-deductible Medical Insurance that starts on day 1
23 personal days off a year.
An additional 12 paid holidays.
Tuition reimbursement
No cost Short Term Disability Insurance
No cost Life insurance
Opportunities in urgent care, women’s health, pediatrics, adult medicine, infectious disease and possible growth opportunities.
Company
New Bedford Community Health Center
New Bedford Community Health is a non-profit, multicultural, community health center.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Glenn Tucker
Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer
Jennifer Patnaude
Chief Human Resources Officer
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