Research (Nutrition) Services Professional Open Rank (Entry Intermediate)

Job Summary

The Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) is a clinical research institute located on the Anschutz Medical Campus. CCTSI provides infrastructure and core technology resources designed to enhance clinical and basic sciences, promote research excellence, and train the next generation of clinical/translational scientists. The CCTSI has an opening for a full-time Research Services Intermediate Clinical Science Professional as a Nutrition Core Services Professional. This position will be academically housed in the Nutrition Core of the Colorado Clinic and Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI). The purpose of the position is to provide expert nutritional support and weighed, metabolic meals for investigators with CCTSI research protocols. It is anticipated that this position will spend approximately 50% time conducting data analysis and participant visits and 50% time in the metabolic kitchen, producing diets.

Key Responsibilities

• Metabolic diet design, using specialty software (ProNutra, training provided) including calculation of protocol- and participant-specific diets which meet all study targets.
• Food preparation, weighing, and packing; maintaining ServeSafe standards in a commercial kitchen.
• Ordering food and consumables for kitchen operations.
• Conduct data entry to measure dietary intake via 24h food recall, food frequency questionnaires, diet diaries, and novel visual methods, including participant instruction and data entry using NDS-R and/or other custom databases.
• Conduct participant visits for data collection including anthropometric measurements in adults and children and specialty dietary counselling.
• Develop and implement study-specific nutrition educational materials.
• Review and implementation of new CTRC protocols.
• Participant and Core scheduling tasks.
• Maintain and update food inventories and databases
• Day-to-day administrative tasks for the CCTSI Nutrition Core, including responsibility for Nutrition Core email inbox, billing, ordering, inventory, meeting agendas and minutes.