Nutrition internship job description

**Nutrition Product Development Internship - Erlanger, KY**

After completing the acquisitions of WILD Flavors and Specialty Commodities Inc. in late 2014, ADM established its newest business unit in January 2015, Wild Flavors & Specialty Ingredients (WFSI). This is your opportunity to play an important role as part of an innovative, fast-growing, customer-oriented business within the world's most admired global agribusiness. The WFSI internship with our Product Development and Applications group will focus on technical and scientific exploration in our Food, Beverage, and Color groups. The internship is 10-weeks in length and will begin with an intern orientation at our North American Headquarters in Decatur, IL. The ideal candidate would have food industry experience and a desire to work in a lab environment.

**Responsibilities could include** :

+ Follows basic GMP, ISO Procedures, GLP, Safety, Lab Notebooks and/or other electronic record keeping tools.

+ Executes batching, testing and simple to more complex adjustments or formula modifications of products/samples. May be required to participate in trouble-shooting activity.

+ Executes standard sampling (Screen & Select) of finished products and flavors, flavor systems or specialty ingredients and may be assigned projects.

+ Coordination of sample shipments with shipping department in accordance to customer/salesperson guidelines.

+ Executes and maintains product retains for stability studies/troubleshooting on finished products, samples and/or flavors, flavor systems, specialty ingredients and retains.

+ Completes work on time and accurately.

+ Keeps laboratory stocked with raw materials, clean glassware, maintains equipment, etc.

+ Demonstrates knowledge of and continues to acquire ingredient and ingredient interaction knowledge.

+ Demonstrates knowledge of and continues to acquire product processing knowledge.

+ Performs other related duties and assignments as required such as the maintenance of ISO Work Instructions.

**Qualifications:**

+ Pursuing a four-year degree in Food Science or related field

+ Willing to relocate for 10-weeks in the summer with provided lodging

+ GPA of 3.0 or greater is preferred

+ Verbal, writing and appropriate customer interaction skills.

+ Detail-oriented.

+ Analytical, problem solving and experimental design skills

**City:**

Erlanger

**State:**

KY - Kentucky

**Ref ID:**

\#LI-SM1

**EEO:**

ADM is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability and veterans status.

**About ADM::**

ADM unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life. We're a premier global human and animal nutrition company, delivering solutions today with an eye to the future. We're blazing new trails in health and well-being as our scientists develop groundbreaking products to support healthier living. We're a cutting-edge innovator leading the way to a new future of plant-based consumer and industrial solutions to replace petroleum-based products. We're an unmatched agricultural supply chain manager and processor, providing food security by connecting local needs with global capabilities. And we're a leader in sustainability, scaling across entire value chains to help decarbonize our industry and safeguard our planet. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional and sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more at www.adm.com.

Lantern champions the independence and wellbeing of New Yorkers impacted by or threatened with chronic homelessness. Our objective is to ensure that residents can find and maintain stable housing. We provide supportive housing and wraparound services for our residents in 16 sites across Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.

Our culturally competent programming promotes housing stability, wellness, dignity, and independence. This work addresses systemic inequity by helping to level the playing field for individuals and families who face housing instability, health disparities, barriers to education and employment, and other obstacles to self-sufficiency and wellness.

Lantern programs provide residents with expert guidance in negotiating the practicalities that will enable them to stay housed in the long term. We work across generations to increase our residents' access to the resources, knowledge, skills, and support that can help them to escape the cycle of poverty; achieve their personal, economic, educational, and health-related goals; and participate fully in community life, thus promoting more vibrant and equitable communities.

Students applying to this opportunity should be interested in food justice and addressing food insecurity.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work with the Director of Food and Nutrition programs in office projects, research and program organization.
• Support our team of culinary nutrition educators on delivering virtual and in person cooking classes at our Lantern sites, once or twice a week.
• Assist in creating and posting social media updates on upcoming events, such as cooking classes, field trips
• Help create flyers to promote Lantern Culinary Nutrition events and educational material regarding nutrition.
• Assist on organizing food justice awareness meetings among our young adults
• Complete other tasks as needed to support Lantern's Food and Nutrition Services work
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• Specific skills intern will gain/ strengthen
• Understanding of Lantern's goals and philosophy as a non-profit community organization
• Ability to demonstrate nutrition awareness education, using different modalities
• Capacity to cook time and cost-effective simple nutritious meals
• Ability to plan and create nutrition education materials for cooking classes and cooking class facilitation
• Excellent interaction skills when dealing with Lantern's population
• Data collection and community resource research skills
• Opportunity to make a change and help underserved individuals and families in NYC
• Promote food justice and work to address food insecurity among Lantern residents

Required Education and Experience:

• Must be currently enrolled students attending City College of New York
• Interest in food justice and addressing food insecurity
• Interest in Nutrition Education, Food Systems and/or Food Justice
• Knowledge of basic cooking, or willingness to learn to cook simple dishes with our clients
• Must have strong communication skills, work ethic, and time management
• Should thrive in a collaborative environment and be open to asking for support

Work Environment: This job operates in one of our supportive housing sites and works with a population who may experience mental illness, substance use, disability, HIV/AIDS, and other chronic illnesses.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, climb stairs and/ or kneel. Occasionally the employee will have to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Note:

Lantern Community Services provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Lantern Community Services (Lantern) values the diversity of all our clients, staff, Board of Directors, and partners. By bringing diverse individuals and viewpoints together, we create more vibrant, healthy and just communities. Lantern welcomes individuals of all backgrounds and experiences regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, religion, immigration status, veteran status, class, creed, mental or physical disability, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local law.