
Nutritionist, Cornell Dining
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Cornell Dining’s Registered Dietitian Nutritionist provides nutrition expertise and leadership to support safe, inclusive dining for students. The role offers individualized nutrition support for medically necessary dietary needs, coordinates dining accommodations, and maintains nutrition, ingredient, and allergen data. It also develops nutrition education, outreach, training, and wellness initiatives, while collaborating across Cornell Dining and the University community to promote appropriate and nutritious dining options.
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Student & Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellbeing, connection and belonging, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad. As part of SCL, Cornell Dining is comprised of more than 30 on-campus eateries, including multiple all-access dining rooms, cafes, coffee shops, food courts, retail convenience stores, concession stands, a restaurant, and catering services. From crafting holiday-themed meals to chef surprises and dining room special events, the Cornell Dining team of more than 400 skilled culinarians and front-line associates and 600 student employees work hard every day to offer a variety of fresh and healthy food from all over the world. Cornell Dining's mission is a commitment to Nourishing the Future: both for our guests and for our team. This is accomplished with a team-oriented and customer service mindset, and an emphasis on training, education, professional development, and career path opportunities for our entire organization. The Nutrition Department is a subset of the Cornell Dining Organizational Excellence team. This team is responsible for providing support and framework within the culinary programming related to nutrition, food allergies, and other dietary requirements. The department also provides nutrition outreach within the Cornell Dining Community. We uphold and foster the values, mission and priorities of Cornell Dining.As part of Cornell Dining's mission to Nourish the Future, the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) provides nutrition expertise and leadership to support safe, inclusive, and equitable dining experiences for students. The RDN provides individualized nutrition support for students with medically necessary dietary needs, including food allergies, intolerances, and therapeutic diets, while advancing nutrition education, regulatory compliance, data management, and dining programs that promote student health and well-being. In coordination with Student Disability Services and the INDIGO Accommodation Kitchen culinary team, the RDN assesses dietary needs, coordinates appropriate dining accommodations, and supports students and Dining staff throughout the accommodation process.The RDN also plays a critical role in the accuracy, integrity and ongoing maintenance of nutrition, ingredient and allergen data within Cornell Dining's Menu Management System. Through effective data stewardship, the RDN ensures students have safe and informed access to accurate nutrition information to support safe and informed meal choices. In addition, the RDN develops and implements nutrition education, outreach, training, and wellness initiatives that support the broader student population. As a subject matter expert in nutrition, medically necessary diets, and dietary accommodations, the RDN collaborates across Cornell Dining and the University community to promote safe, appropriate, nutritious, and inclusive dining options.While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others. A successful Registered Dietitian Nutritionist will: * Have ability to assess nu
How this job compares
Set against the 770 open Nutritionist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$68–85K/yr22 salary ranges
- New York median$62–68/hr31 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 60 open Nutritionist jobs in New York and 770 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Experience
- Nutritionist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (225 postings).
- Education
- 357 of the 770 open Nutritionist jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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