Nutritional Health Coach

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. USD $24.00/Hr.

This role requires an outgoing personality and passion for sharing nutrition knowledge and inspiring people to act and achieve their health goals. You’ll wear many hats while working in a fast‑paced retail setting conducting classes, private coaching sessions, community outreach, and retail operations. As the store’s nutrition professional, you will be an educational resource providing science‑based nutrition education/training to the store crew, customers, and the community.

This position is a front‑line contributor to Natural Grocers’ mission and plays an integral role in improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

• Main Ingredients:
  • Acts as the nutrition education resource for the customers, crew, and community.
  • Provides customer service on the floor in the vitamin aisles.
  • Performs retail operations.
  • Maintains customer literature files and the book department.
  • Stocks, faces, and merchandises products.
  • Assists with cleaning the vitamin department and store.
  • Offers in‑store nutrition and recipe demonstration classes.
  • Provides outreach nutrition classes.
  • Provides regular trainings to crew.
  • Maintains the crew wellness board.
  • Motivates and provides encouragement for crew to participate in employee nutrition.
• Challenges:
  • Respond to questions and review summaries.
  • Provides private individual one‑on‑one health coaching sessions.
  • Builds community relationships (practitioner partners, guest presenters, event partners).
  • Seeks outreach opportunities to provide nutrition education and build brand awareness.
  • Maintains continued education requirements.
  • Reads and reviews research, completes CE assignments.
  • Assists management with coordinating, organizing, and executing company‑wide events.
  • Prints materials used in classes, outreach, and coaching sessions.
  • Purchases nutrition education supplies.
  • Provides training to crew on promoting the NHC services, in‑store events, and promotions.
  • Attends monthly meetings (NHC webinar, regional and sales building calls).
  • Acts as an event ambassador for in‑store guest presenter classes during floor days.
• All employees are expected to be hands‑on and do whatever it takes to get the job done and help the company thrive.

• A degree or certification in nutrition or a related field (e.g., dietetics, Bachelor of Science, Master of Biology, Biochemistry, Naturopathy).
• Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Excellent public speaking skills.
• Confidence in front of an audience providing cooking demonstrations and nutrition education classes.
• Ability to engage customers and start conversations to promote events, services, and sales.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and priority management.
• Self‑directed with strong time‑management.
• Works well in a team and accepts constructive feedback.
• Motivated to grow and develop knowledge and skills.
• Inspired to provide nutrition education to crew, customers, and the community.
• Comfortable working in a retail setting performing retail operations (stocking, facing, checking expiration dates, cleaning).
• Friendly, outgoing, and approachable.

• If the degree or certification requires continuing education to maintain, those requirements must be fulfilled.
• If no CEC is required, maintaining 16 Continuing Education (CE) hours (or two CE units) per year is required.

• All Crew Members:
  • Birthday Bonus Pay
  • Vitamin Bucks (up to $2,080 earned as store credit annually)
  • Holiday Pay for 5 holidays – stores closed
  • Paid Time Off (sick days and vacation) that increases with tenure
  • Paid Nutrition Education
  • good4u Crew Member Discount
  • {N}power Program (customer appreciation and rewards program)
  • Regular, scheduled pay increases
  • Advancement opportunities and career development
  • Health and wellness program
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employee Referral Program
• Full‑Time Crew Members (30+ hours/week):
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid medical leave (through company paid short‑term disability insurance)
  • Company paid short‑term disability insurance
  • Company paid life…