Nutrition and Social Media Intern (Unpaid)
General Summary
The Nourish Project is an initiative under Stanford Medicine’s Center for Asian Health Research and Education. The goal of the Nourish Project is to provide educational resources focused on nutrition for pre-diabetic and type-II diabetic Asians. Even though Asians are disproportionately impacted by diabetes, there is a lack of Asian representation in nutrition and diabetes education in the United States. We are looking for talented individuals, who are familiar with Asian cuisines and want to make a strong impact on our communities.
Learn more at https://linktr.ee/nourishproject
Upon satisfactory completion of 400+ hours of internship work, letters of recommendation and/or references will be written by Minal Moharir, MD, after performance reviews.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Design social media content for FB to achieve marketing targets
- Research how to create bite-size contents for nutritional education
- Use Nourish Project's dietary guidelines to create recipes, educational, and visual posts on Canva.
- Assist in developing and launching projects like cookbooks, recipe videos, and more.
- Conduct social media and community outreach
- Conduct extensive literature review with guidance on healthy eating for populations with pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes
- Attend weekly meetings
Basic Qualifications:
- Relevant experience in healthcare and/or health equity initiatives and/or nutrition
- Knowledge of metabolism in relation to nutrition
- Knowledge of macro/micro-nutrition composition
- High level of analytical abilities to plan individual nutrition programs, and to discriminate new product claims and their physiologic effect
- High level of interpersonal skills necessary to provide counseling to end-users and their families on nutrition related issues
- Ability to work in a changing environment
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Cultural knowledge of Asian cuisine, especially Indian and Korean, is preferred
- Knowledge of nutrition, carbohydrate counting, or diabetes management is preferred
Additional Requirements:
- Demonstrated strong communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills required
- Demonstrated collaboration and problem-solving skills required
- Comfortable with / quick with learning to use Facebook, Slack, Canva, Google Drive, and Zoom
Working Conditions
5-8 hours per week
Work remotely with meetings on zoom.
Cover letter is preferred.
Applicants that pass the screening process will be invited for a Zoom interview with the Director of Nutrition, Dr. Minal Moharir.