Feeding Northeast Florida (FNEFL) is the regional Feeding America food bank serving a 12-county area across Northeast Florida. Through food distribution, nutrition programs, and strategic partnerships, FNEFL works to strengthen lives and communities by ensuring access to nutritious food for all. This position plays an important role in advancing Feeding Northeast Florida’s Food is Medicine initiatives by integrating nutrition care with food access programs and healthcare partnerships.
Our Mission: We use food as our catalyst to strengthen lives and communities.
Our Vision: Access to nutritious food for all.
Within the Nutrition Department, Feeding Northeast Florida is advancing programs that integrate food access with healthcare delivery. Our Prescriptive Nutrition Program connects food-insecure patients with nutrition care and medically supportive food through partnerships with clinics, community organizations, and food pantry networks.
This role offers a unique opportunity for an experienced Registered Dietitian Nutritionist to provide group-based clinical nutrition care in community and virtual settings. Successful candidates understand that food insecurity and nutrition-related disease are influenced by social and economic circumstances and are motivated to reduce barriers to nutrition care through practical, accessible, evidence-based services.
The Community Nutrition Clinical Specialist, RDN is responsible for developing and delivering group nutrition therapy services for Feeding Northeast Florida’s Prescriptive Nutrition Program and related Food is Medicine initiatives.
The role focuses on group Medical Nutrition Therapy, telehealth, curriculum development, and clinical documentation for populations affected by diabetes, hypertension, maternal health conditions, and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. The Clinical Specialist develops and refines group curricula and delivery models within established program goals, with approval from the supervisory RDN as appropriate.
This position also documents participant care and outcomes, supports accurate clinical data collection, and works closely with program and data staff to ensure information can be used for reporting, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate is an experienced RDN who is comfortable practicing outside of traditional clinical environments, enjoys group facilitation and curriculum development, and can adapt clinical nutrition care for virtual and community-based settings.
Partner and Internal Collaboration
Clinical Judgment and Quality: Applies evidence-based nutrition practice consistently and uses sound clinical judgment when adapting care for group, virtual, and community-based settings.
Group Facilitation and Communication: Communicates clinical information clearly and practically, creates an engaging group environment, and adapts delivery for participants with different learning needs and levels of health literacy.
Curriculum Development: Translates clinical evidence into practical, accessible group content and continuously improves materials based on participant needs, outcomes, and current guidance.
Adaptability and Learning Agility: Works effectively in evolving program environments, adjusts to changing participant and partner needs, and learns new tools and delivery approaches as needed.
Collaboration and Professional Maturity: Builds strong working relationships with staff and partners, approaches challenges with professionalism and emotional intelligence, and knows when to solve problems independently and when to seek guidance.
This position operates in a dynamic nonprofit environment and includes work in office, virtual, healthcare, community-based, and food distribution settings throughout Feeding Northeast Florida’s service area. Regular travel within the region is required.
Most work will occur during business hours Monday through Friday, 8 am – 5 pm. Weekend and evening work may be required as necessary to support group classes, partner activities, or program needs. A food bank is a warehouse environment; offices experience occasional exposure to environmental effects of operations.
This position requires regular computer use, virtual and in-person meetings, group facilitation, and periods of sitting or standing. As part of FNEFL’s collaborative work environment and emergency response activities, the employee may occasionally assist with departmental or organizational activities involving prolonged standing or walking; bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting or carrying supplies; and working in warehouse or outdoor environments where temperatures and conditions may vary.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and veterans who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers and farms, we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need.
We connect that food to more than 160 partners and programs within our hunger network, like City Rescue Mission, The Sulzbacher Center and The Salvation Army. These partners are able to provide not only food to those in need, but services that can help these families and individuals end the cycle of poverty, including job training or placement, low-cost childcare, SNAP benefits, medical care, affordable housing and counseling.
In 2018, Feeding Northeast Florida distributed more than 14 million meals across our eight-county service area.
Feeding Northeast Florida is Your Community Food Bank. With your help and support, we can make sure one of the basic needs shared by all of us is met every day.
