Nutrition Services Specialist (for family child care)

Summary

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for Family Child Care supports licensed family child care providers in serving nutritious meals and snacks to children in their care. Through federal reimbursement, training, technical assistance, and guidance on regulatory compliance, CACFP helps providers improve the quality of their child care environments, promote healthy eating habits, and ensures children receive balanced meals that support healthy development. Effective delivery of the CACFP requires regular use of technology for data entry, communication, reporting, and documentation to ensure adherence to all state and federal regulations.

POSITION SUMMARY

Child Care Resource Center is a fast growing, North Central Ohio based, resource and referral agency dedicated to teamwork and superior customer service. To continue our growth, we are searching for a motivated individual to initiate relationships with child care home businesses. The CACFP Specialist fulfills these primary roles to meet the requirements of this federal program – operations/monitoring, data collection and business growth for small, licensed family child care home businesses. The position includes a combination of field work, home visits, and office or remote-based responsibilities.

Duties

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

•  Monitor, analyze and maintain information collected and make recommendations for CACFP improvements

-Maintain systems/procedures for the CACFP program
-Verification of data accuracy
-Process child applications, menu compliance and support
-Track child attendance as it relates to food served and the monthly claims

• Develop and host on-boarding process for new CACFP family child care home businesses
• Work with an assigned caseload of homes, ensuring that they are successful and claiming monthly.
• Create and implement weekly, monthly and annual strategies to ensure compliance and program success
• Work closely with your caseload to identify and brainstorm strategies to improve program success, nutritional programming and overall business stability.
• Contribute improvements in techniques affecting CACFP operations.
• Create a climate in which people want to do their best. Can motivate team or caseload and make each individual feel his/her work is important
• Oversee monthly CACFP claim using custom software and report any findings to supervisor
• Train and provide ongoing technical assistance to CACFP family child care home businesses on CACFP program operations using methods that meet provider needs
• Perform CACFP caseload quality audits on a monthly basis
• Identify corrective action issues and document, monitor and follow up to ensure corrections have been made
• Monitor participating family child care home businesses onsite for compliance with federal CACFP requirements
• Assist supervisor with annual CACFP application and audit processe
• Maintain CRM database with accurate information and work to increase leads to improve recruitment efforts
• Monitor marketing/recruitment campaigns for effectiveness and reach
• Problem solves using new and innovative ideas with the goal of creating great customer experience
• Assuming other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
• Identify innovative strategies to make 212 degrees your personal target

Requirements

QUALIFICATION:

• Associates Degree (Bachelor Degree preferred) business or school food program administrator experience
• Restaurant management experience
• At least 3 years of experience with Ohio’s CACFP program
• This role requires strong proficiency with technology, as the CACFP for Family Child Care is moving toward a paperless system for reporting, documentation, and communication.
• Reliable transportation – insured. This position requires frequent travel to support family child care providers across the service area
• Excellent written and oral communication, data management, and organization skills
• Professionalism and a commitment to maintaining high standards in all interactions and responsibilities are essential for this role
• Ability to relate to a broad spectrum of community organizations, child care providers. Recognizes the importance of teamwork

Nice To Haves

Previous experience as a sponsor specialist in Ohio

Benefits

Benefits:

The role will start as a part-time position (30 hours per week) and is expected to expand to full-time status within 12 months.

Benefits : Medical (CCRC pays 70%), Life
(paid by employer), 403b Retirement, Sick Leave, Vacation Time
Hybrid work schedule available after 3 months (onboarding process)