Food and Nutrition Services Adviser

$60,538.00 - $92,010.00 Annually

Location:

* Home Headquartered, PA

Job Type: Civil Service Permanent Full-Time

Job Number: CS-

Department:
Department of Education

Division:
Div Chld Ntrtn Prgm Cmplnc

Opening Date: 09/11/2026

Closing Date: 9/24/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

Job Code: 21250

Position Number:

Union: SEIU

Bargaining Unit: F4

Pay Group: ST07

Bureau / Division Code:

Bureau / Division:
Food & Nutrition/Child Nutrition Program Compliance

Worksite Address:
Home Headquartered, Pennsylvania

Contact Name:
Shawna Handley

Contact Phone:

Contact Email: shandley

Join the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a Food and Nutrition Services Adviser 1, where your efforts help strengthen essential nutrition programs across the state. The Department of Education relies on dedicated professionals to ensure safe and nutritious meals reach children and adults who need them most. In this vital role, you support the success of community food programs by reviewing operations and guiding improvements.

Your commitment will help communities grow healthier and stronger every day.

This role focuses on reviewing, evaluating, and supporting child and adult care nutrition programs throughout Pennsylvania to ensure compliance with federal and state requirements. It promotes safe, nutritious, and well-managed meal services across various sponsoring entities. As a Food and Nutrition Services Adviser 1, you will perform the following duties:

• Program Reviews: Conduct administrative evaluations of Child Nutrition programs to verify adherence to federal regulations and state policies
• Data Analysis: Review statistical and financial information to determine compliance with program requirements
• Corrective Action: Identify needed improvements and determine corrective or fiscal measures for non-compliance
• Eligibility Checks: Determine the accuracy of free and reduced-price meal eligibility decisions made by sponsors
• Menu Evaluation: Examine menus to ensure they meet federal nutritional standards and state policies

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with 60-minute lunch.
• This position is home headquartered. In order to be home headquartered, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• Two years of professional experience in nutrition services or school food service management and a bachelor's degree in dietetics, nutrition, food service administration, or hotel and restaurant management.
  or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training.

Other Requirements:

• You must reside in or be willing to relocate to Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, or York County within the first 6 months of employment.
• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Legal Requirements:

• This position falls under the provisions of the Child Protective Services Law.
  • Under the Law, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports including, but not limited to, PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse history clearance, and FBI Fingerprint clearance.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S.
  * 7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click on Veterans.

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.

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