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Healthcare Manager, Greener By Default

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Culinary Medicine Nutrition Registered Dietitian Full-time

Join our growing healthcare team!

At Greener by Default, you will be working towards the ambitious goal of completely transforming institutional foodservice - and the food system as a whole - by making plant-based food the default. 

We recognize that the fate of humans, animals, and ecosystems are bound together, and strive to create a food system that will allow all life on earth to flourish. In order to achieve our vision, we develop strategies rooted in science, sustainability, and inclusivity to empower institutions to serve plant-forward food. 

Position Objective:

Healthcare is one of the most promising avenues for plant-based defaults, with the potential to impact millions of meals, thereby transforming patient health, institutional procurement and societal norms. As Healthcare Manager, you will work directly with healthcare organizations and foodservice management companies in order to implement programs.

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Implement programmatic strategy: Carry out organizational strategic plan for healthcare program in order to achieve objectives and key results.

  • Develop and oversee relationships with hospitals: Build a network of contacts, secure partnerships, actively establish and maintain positive ongoing relationships with allies and institutional partners.

  • Manage pilot projects: Utilize healthcare program strategies, tools, and templates  to guide hospitals through the pilot process and  ensure the successful implementation of plant-based default pilots from start to finish, including obtaining stakeholder buy-in, supporting the culinary team, gathering and analyzing data, assisting with publicizing the findings, and securing permanent implementation.

  • Build contacts: Represent the organization at networking events and conferences to expand our presence and build relationships

  • Help the program grow: Leverage successes to expand partnerships at other sites and implement programs permanently, while contributing your insights and lessons learned to strengthen our healthcare program.

Individual Attributes Required

  • Intellectual integrity: Provide information rooted in science, adapt messaging and tactics based on the latest behavioral research.

  • Ambition: Boldly drive change within institutional foodservice norms, be persistent when pursuing clients.

  • Open communication: Continuously seek out new information and dialogue, cultivate trust with staff and partners.

  • Foster inclusion: Meet people where they are, strive to understand and acknowledge the different cultural contexts within which you’re working, hold space for divergent perspectives.

  • Growth mindset: See challenges and mistakes as opportunities to adapt and improve. Continuously strive to hone your expertise and refine your skills in order to best serve the organization’s and client’s goals.

Position Requirements

  • Degree or certification in public health, nutrition, and/or dietetics preferred

  • At least two years of relevant outreach experience preferred

  • Familiarity  or experience with institutional foodservice is a plus

  • Strong people skills

  • Strong writing and public speaking skills

  • Attention to detail

  • Ability to work collaboratively with a team

  • Self-motivated, able to work independently and take initiative

We strongly encourage people of every color, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate during the application process and after you join the team. We encourage candidates with most of the above qualifications to apply; we do not expect all candidates to fit this job description 100%.

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About Greener By Default

Greener by Default is a nonprofit that consults with institutions to apply behavioral science to food policy, nudging diners towards sustainable, inclusive, and healthy plant-based food while preserving freedom of choice.  We are working to transform healthcare food service operations to positively impact human and planetary health.  In addition to our work in the healthcare sector, we also work with food service operations in the corporate sector, universities, and conference/event planners.

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