Performance dietitian, Healthcare

** Req :
** RQ223320

** Type of

Requisition :
** Regular

** Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
** Top Secret/SCI

** Public Trust/Other

Required:

** None

** Job Family:
** Healthcare Services

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* Skills:

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* Clinical Staffing,Counseling,Documentations,Inservice Training,Office Administration

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* Experience:

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* 3 + years of related experience

** US Citizenship

Required:

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* Yes

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* Job Description:

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* We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that's important.

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being rusted to deliver your best every day.

We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Performance Dietitian joining our team to support customer activities.

The Performance Dietitian provides specialized nutrition care and performance‑focused dietary guidance to optimize the health, recovery, and operational readiness of personnel. The PD delivers direct access medical nutrition therapy, develops evidence‑based nutrition protocols, supports return‑to‑duty pathways, and collaborates with leadership and human performance teams to promote informed fueling practices. This role includes individual counseling, group education, laboratory‑informed assessment, and operational nutrition support across training and rehabilitation environments.

** HOW A PERFORMANCE DIETITIAN WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:*
* + Function as direct access providers, evaluating and counseling personnel without a referral.

+ Provide individual and group nutritional planning, screening, assessment, intervention, counseling, and documentation that is guided by evidence-based peer-reviewed literature.

+ Collaborate with, advise, collaborate, and consult with the chain of command on issues pertinent to all aspects of nutrition.

+ Conduct individualized nutrition assessments, which may include ordering labs and hydration assessment.

+ Provide small and large group education on performance nutrition.

+ Develop protocols to optimize performance and readiness.

+ Develop protocols for rehabilitation and return to duty.

+ Serve as an advisor and consultant on dining facility and/or galley nutrition and coordinate between food service and command.

+ Serve as a primary advisor on sports foods, dietary supplements, medical foods, and performance enhancing substances within the POTFF program and unit/Command.

** WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:*
* + Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Science (Master of Science, preferred) or related field and hold certification from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) as a Registered Dietitian (RD)

+ Master's degree may be replaced with five (5) plus years of paid, full-time experience as a Sport and/or Performance Dietitian with individual athletes and groups of athletes at the levels of NCAA Collegiate Division I, Olympic, professional sports, USAF CRAFT, USAF SWTW, and/or SOF Operators in the accompanying, respective settings.

+ Minimum of three (3) years or more of demonstrable accumulated experience as a Sport and/or Performance Dietitian with individual athletes and groups of athletes at the levels of NCAA Collegiate Division I, Olympic, professional sports, USAF CRAFT, USAF SWTW and/or SOF Operators in the accompanying, respective settings.

+ Possess a specialty certification as a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD).

+ CSSD certification may be deferred by the COR if all other qualifications are met;

+ If deferred, the contractor shall earn the CSSD within six (6) months of employment

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