Performance Dietitian (PD)

Endurion is a mission integrator built by and for the Special Operations community, providing end-to-end solutions across intelligence, operations, and technology.

Founded and led by former Special Operations Forces operators and mission experts, the organization is rooted in firsthand experience with complex operational environments and high-stakes missions.

Endurion partners closely with its customers to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored, mission-focused capabilities. Team members join a culture that values adaptability, operational excellence, and innovation in support of critical national security objectives.

Performance Dietitian (PD)

Location: Fort Bragg, NC

Clearance required: Secret

Summary

Credentialed registered dietitian providing comprehensive nutritional care to optimize operator health, performance and recovery, including proactive strategies, targeted food and supplement interventions, and fueling programs for individuals and units.

Responsibilities

• Function as a direct-access provider, evaluating and counseling personnel without a referral.
• Provide individual and group nutrition planning, screening, assessment, counseling and documentation based on peer-reviewed evidence.
• Conduct individualized nutrition assessments, which may include ordering labs and hydration assessments.
• Provide small and large group performance nutrition education.
• Develop protocols for performance, readiness, rehabilitation and return to duty.
• Advise the chain of command and dining facility/galley food service.
• Serve as primary advisor on sports foods, dietary supplements, medical foods and performance-enhancing substances.

Qualifications

• MS in nutrition science or related field (preferred), OR BS in nutrition science or related field with 5+ years of paid, full-time sport/performance dietitian experience.
• RD/RDN credential from the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• CSSD (Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics) at hire; may be deferred if all other qualifications are met, then must be earned within 6 months.
• Desired, not required: ISAK Level 1 and 2, IOC Diploma in Sport Nutrition, IFNCP.

Required Minimum Experience

Minimum 3 years as a sport/performance dietitian with collegiate, Olympic, professional, USAF or SOF populations.

Additional Requirements

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Document all encounters in HPDMS per USSOCOM Directive 10-12.
• For embedded field positions, where the task order requires: meet SOF training physical demands (hiking rough terrain, austere environments, aircraft and watercraft) and lift up to 25 kg.
• Maintain 100% compliance with local mandatory command training.
• Current, full, active, unrestricted U.S. license.
• Current BCLS.
• Meet DHA-PM 6025.13 credentialing; be eligible for privileges without a supervision plan.
• Satisfy BOTH the Appendix 1 minimum experience and the credentialing authority's current-competency standard (separate gates).

Endurion complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Endurion will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@endurion.com [recruiting@endurion.com].

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Management retains the discretion to add to or modify the duties of the position at any time.

Employment with Endurion is at-will, meaning that either the employee or the employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice, provided it does not violate applicable law.