WIC Nutrition Counselor
Listed compensation
$22.15-$23.05/hr
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job description
Join Western Maine Community Action as a WIC Nutrition Counselor – Full-Time, 40 Hours in Auburn, ME, USA. Come join a team that cares about health, nutrition, and wellness in the communities we serve. WIC is a federally funded program that provides nutrition education, breastfeeding support, referrals, and food benefits to families that qualify.
Benefits & Compensation
- Pay rate: $23/hour.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package
- 401K (Traditional and Roth options)
- Health insurance 90% paid by WMCA
- Low-cost family dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance & short-term disability paid by the agency
- 13 paid holidays
- Very generous PTO
- Paid training and professional development
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- No explicit call, weekend, or night shift information provided.
Apply to join Western Maine Community Action as a WIC Nutrition Counselor – Full-Time, 40 Hours.
Key Responsibilities
Provide nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and food benefit referrals to eligible families. Conduct educational sessions for individuals and groups while traveling to various clinics in Oxford County.
Requirements
Requires an associate or bachelor's degree in nutrition. Candidates must possess strong verbal communication skills and the ability to work sensitively with diverse, low-income populations.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
Key Skills
Nutrition — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 28% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 6.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Maine is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$47k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $48k in an average-cost state. 62.0% of Maine clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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