Nutrition Intern / Healthy Snacks Coordinator / Cookin' in the Classrooms!

We have kitchenettes in our classrooms!

Live beach-front by the Caribbean Sea while working with volunteers from all over the world to benefit children in need! Honduras Child Alliance seeks a 6-12 month "Healthy Snacks Coordinator" (nutrition intern) to help facilitate all aspects of our Healthy Snacks program, including cooking with children in the classrooms. This is an ongoing role within the program and so the start date is flexible.

Some of the children who attend our free educational classes are under-nourished. Food insecurity is a big problem in our community, and the goal of the Healthy Snacks program is to provide a protein-filled snack to each child who attends classes while modeling locally available healthy eating choices.

A registered dietician/nutritionist provides appropriate recipes. Two local women prepare some of the snacks and our international volunteers and Honduran interns prepare the rest. The snacks are rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals. For many of our kids, this may be the most nourishing meal of the day. The secondary goals of the Healthy Snack Program are to model locally available healthy food options and to maintain a program that is sustainable. To do so, we have incorporated as many local ingredients as possible into our recipes. In addition, our 3 classrooms have cooking areas and so activities that involve food prep and cooking with the children are encouraged!

The Nutrition intern partners with one of the Honduran interns and as they work directly with the Program Manager and the dietician/nutritionist to maintain and assess the impact of the program, they are considered part of the in-country Leadership Team.

Learn Grant-Writing / Monitoring & Evaluation

 The nutrition coordinator can learn abour and participate in the grant-writing and monitoring and evaluation processes.

The Nutrition Coordinator is responsible for the following:

 Securing of ingredients for snack recipes on a weekly basis (ideally from local sources).

 Organizing the snack preparation schedule. You are NOT expected to prep all the food.

 Train volunteers and follow up in the preparation of recipes.

 Conduct likability and acceptability surveys with the kids when new recipes are introduced.

 Collect data related to this program and log it on our spreadsheet.

 Lead healthy nutrition-related lessons and activities once weekly for the PEP+ classes.

This role seeks an individual who possesses the following qualities:

 High comfort level with cooking and following recipes.

 High comfort level in coaching others in the cooking process.

 Has a good understanding of human nutrition and the basic components of food.

 Ability to read and understand food labels.

 Advanced beginner ability or better in Spanish