Ivh-M Dietary Manager ; Ump

Job Requisition : 52477

Closing Date: 01/15/2026

Agency: Department of Veterans' Affairs

Class Title: DIETARY MANAGER I - 12501

Skill Option: UMP DVA - Certified Dietary Manager (CDM) or equivalent

Bilingual Option: None

Salary: $5,384- $7,631/Monthly; CBA language applies;
Anticipated salary $5,384/Monthly

Job Type: Salaried

Category: Full Time

County: Kankakee

Number of Vacancies: 1

Bargaining Unit Code: RC062 Technical Employees, AFSCME

This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the  website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the Success Factors employee career portal.

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

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• Serves as assistant manager of a food service program.
• Assists the Dietary Manager II in the planning and directing of all phases of a comprehensive food service program, including preparation, production, serving, storage, and all other food services.
• Serves as designated supervisor.
• Directs staff in preparing and serving general and special diets and performing other food service functions.
• Plans weekly agendas and conducts in‑service meetings with dietary staff.
• Conducts and completes quarterly, annual, significant change and tube feeding assessments as part of the MDS/Care Plan requirements within required time frames.
• Works with other departments and organizations to coordinate special functions needing food services.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of four (4) years of college with courses in dietetics.
• Requires one (1) year of professional experience in a large‑scale food service program.
• Requires that the candidate should be a dietitian; OR is a graduate of a dietetic technician or dietetic assistant training program, corresponding or classroom, approved by the American Dietetic Association; OR is a graduate, prior to July 1, 1990, of a Department‑approved course that provided 90 or more hours of classroom instruction in food service supervision and has had experience as a supervisor in a health care institution which included consultation from a dietitian;
  
  OR has successfully completed a Dietary Managers Association approved dietary managers course; OR is certified as a dietary manager by the Dietary Managers Association; OR has training and experience in food service supervision and management in a military service equivalent in content to the programs above.
• Qualifying state employees in the employee Upward Mobility Program may complete combinations of specific proficiency tests and training programs leading to a certificate of proficiency in lieu of the stated requirements for this class.

• One (1) year experience supervising subordinate staff in preparing and serving general and special menus and performing other food service functions.
• One (1) year experience directing dietetic educational programs and teach food and nutrition principles.
• One (1) year experience supervising quantity food preparation and cooking with…