WIC Nutrition Aid Hawai' Department of Health

Please be advised that the hiring process for this position is part of the Department of Health’s Hiring Innovation for Rapid Employment (HIRE) Pilot Project. The Pilot Project will defer the traditional screening of applications for minimum qualifications until after a selection has been made. Therefore, the referral of an application to the hiring manager and the opportunity to interview for the position do not indicate that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications for the position, nor do they guarantee employment.

If selected for the role, a comprehensive review of the application packet will occur to ensure that the minimum qualifications are met. If the selectee is deemed qualified, a conditional offer will be issued.

Full-time, Permanent Civil Service position. The primary purpose of this position is to provide assistance to Public Health Nutritionists by performing nutrition activities related to low-risk factors, including prescribing supplemental foods and providing education; the position also determines participant eligibility. Work is performed at assigned clinics and/or at other sites.

To qualify, you must meet all of the following requirements. Please note that unless specifically indicated, the required education and experience may not be gained concurrently. In addition, qualifying work experience is credited based on a 40-hour workweek.

• Basic Education Requirement:
  Experience requiring the ability to read, comprehend and apply written directions and a high degree of verbal skill in addition to the ability to perform arithmetic computations, including fractions, percentages and averages. This experience may be met from part-time and/or unpaid work. There must, however, be evidence that participation was on a continuous, but not necessarily full-time normal work, basis.
  
  This requirement may also be met by possession of a high school diploma, or equivalent.
• General Experience Requirement:
  One year of work experience which involved meeting and dealing effectively with people and which demonstrated the ability to:
  1) establish and maintain positive relationships with people and
  2) provide and elicit pertinent information. In addition, either concurrently or separately, there must be evidence of demonstrated ability to organize materials; elicit information, and write notes consisting of complete sentences based on such information; and use a keyboard to input alpha and numeric data.
• Substitution Allowed:
  Successful completion of thirty (30) semester credit hours of coursework from an accredited college or university which included at least six (6) semester credit hours of coursework in psychology, sociology, social work, or other behavioral science may be substituted for the General Experience on a year-for-year basis. Possession of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in Community Nutrition, Nutritional Sciences, or any other related Food Science or Nutrition major, may be substituted for all of the General and Specialized Experience requirement.

For additional information please call Kathryn Tanaka at