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Director of Sports Nutrition- Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (140989)

Employer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Institutional & Business Affairs, Athletics
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Description:

Director of Sports Nutrition, Football –

Division of Intercollegiate Athletics

Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. We serve the state, the nation, and the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and addressing critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge. Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. Illinois is especially interested in candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.

The Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has an opening for a Director of Sports Nutrition, Football.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

STATEMENT OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Individual Nutrition Counseling

  • Assess and analyze dietary practices, body composition, and energy balance of student-athletes in the context of athletic performance and health.

  • Assessment and counseling of student-athletes on optimal nutritional practices for exercise training, competition, recovery from practice, recovery from injury and illness, weight management, hydration supplementation and legal use of dietary supplements, regularly banned drugs and restricted substances in compliance with sport governing bodies; e.g. NCAA, U.S. Anti-doping Agency (USADA), World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) and the Department of Intercollegiate (DIA) policies.

  • Identify and advise on medical-related nutrition concerns such as but not limited to anemia, disordered eating, diabetes, bone mineral disturbances, amenorrhea, dyslipidemia, hypertension, gastrointestinal concerns, food allergies and intolerances, and other medical conditions.

  • Provide personalized meal and snack plans to promote achieving short- and long-term goals for athletic performance and health.

  • Attend workouts, practices, and games to provide the care, education, and fuel necessary for peak performance.

  • Develop resources to support educational efforts

  • Document nutrition services provided and evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition strategies towards meeting desired outcomes.

  • Serve as a member of the menu management team within Varsity Room (Training Table), charged with enhancing the nutritional content of recipes and production techniques for nutritionally adequate meals for athletic performance and recovery

  • Provide prospective student-athletes and family members with a comprehensive overview of performance nutrition services.

Nutrition trainings, education and recommendations

  • Coordination of the development and oversight of nutrition education material production, social media, and on-site athlete dining education.

  • Actively participate in meal monitoring and plate-side nutrition education for student athletes at Varsity Room (training table), events, and team-specific pre-game meals.

  • Develop and deliver nutrition education presentations, demonstrations, or events on various topics related to nutrition for performance

  • Recommend appropriate pre, during, post-exercise fluids, and snacks for individual team practice and competition

  • Attend team meals and actively coach student-athletes to educate and enhance student-athlete meal choices. As well as grocery store tours, food storage, use of per diem, use of Red Card, and food preparation (cooking classes).

  • Coordinate and communicate travel nutrition need for assigned team(s).

  • Maintain professional competency and skills required for professional practice, including but not limited to current food, nutrition, and health issues and research related to sports nutrition

  • Maintain yearly continuing education in the field of sports dietetics

Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary, integrated performance team

  • Conduct and refer screening, treatment and prevention of disordered eating and eating disorders as necessary.

  • Provide consistent communication to coaching staff, strength & conditioning staff, athletic trainers, team physicians, mental health staffs, and administration regarding sports nutrition and sports performance related issues as well as advise areas for improvement.

  • Collaborate with relevant allied health care providers within the Sports Medicine department’s existing health care network by making referrals when appropriate.

Supervision

  • Order, inventory, and procurement of goods through necessary vendors for athletic fueling stations.

  • Recruit, interviewing, hiring and scheduling undergraduate volunteers as Fueling Station Product Managers.

  • Provide education and mentorship of sports nutrition undergraduate volunteers and dietitian fellows

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Required: Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s degree in Nutrition or related field required.

Experience:

Required: One to three years’ experience working with professional or collegiate athletes.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

Preferred: Three or more years working with professional or collegiate athletes

TRAINING, LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS

Required: Registered Dietitian (Commission on Dietetic Registration) required within 3 months of hire, Licensed Dietitian (State of Illinois) required upon hire.

Preferred: : Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of and compliance with specific NCAA, Big Ten Conference, and institution rules that relate to this position is required.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

May work nights and weekends

SALARY

Salary will be commensurate with experience

APPOINTMENT STATUS

100 % time of appointment for 12 months

PROPOSED START DATE

As soon as possibility after the closing date.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

For full consideration, please create your candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your (list required documents, such as resume, a cover letter, and the names and email addresses or phone numbers of three professional references, etc.) by January 22, 2021. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered.

CONTACT

For further information regarding application procedures, you may contact Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at IllinoisAthleticsHR@illinois.edu.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Division of Intercollegiate Athletics Category:5-Education and Student Services Title:Director of Sports Nutrition- Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (140989) Open Date:01/08/2021 Close Date:01/22/2021 Organization Name:Intercollegiate Athletics

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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