Guide, Nutritionist

**LOCATION: Baja California Souther Peninsula, Mexico**

**SALARY: Under $95,000**

**Position Description**

The Guide, Nutrition will work with exercise physiologists, mindset coaches, spa and wellness practitioners in a luxury resort setting, while leveraging evidenced-based content and technology deliver the best practices in nutrition.

At Sensei, we balance purpose with play. Guests enjoy health coaching, 1:1 nutrition, fitness, meditation and mindset sessions, body treatments, educational lectures, and a variety of outdoor activities - all designed to expand awareness and connection. The Sensei Guide works in multidisciplinary collaboration and is responsible for managing and coordinating activities of each guests' wellness journey. This position is an integral leader of the guest experience, leveraging data, self-awareness, self-efficacy, and safety to deliver guided sessions. Combining spaces and environments to imbue feelings of safety and ease; domain expertise to interpret objective data and craft a personalized wellness plan; and health coaching to communicate this information in an empowering, affirming manner. Sensei has designed the guide program to manage the guest experience by supporting our guest in achieving greater wellbeing.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES **include the following:

- Conduct 1:1 session with guests to discuss current health, wellbeing, and wellness objectives for their stay as well as Nutrition 1:1's
- Facilitates additional educational opportunities for guests (i.e., meet and greets, Q&As)
- Create and own nutrition educational content and lead lectures and hands on nutrition workshops (i.e., cooking demos) to further educate and engage guests
- Create and lead programs to support team wellness and synergy
- Work alongside Sensei by Nobu providing education and menu suggestions to guests
- Facilitates additional educational opportunities for guests (i.e., meet and greets, Q&As)
- Leads wellness classes as they pertain to specific areas of expertise
- Direct and monitor the end-to-end guest experience, from initial consultation and assessment to their last send off session for life after Sensei
- Implement health screening tools, analyze and provide relevant feedback to guests
- Build guest itineraries based on guest intentions gathered from the pre-arrival questionnaire, conversations and assessments with the guest.
- Ensure confidentiality, ethics, and client trust is protected at all times
- Collaborate with teammates & coworkers to ensure a seamless guest experience and enhance service delivery
- Use principles of health coaching to support guests in pursuing their personal growth
- Serve as an ambassador of Sensei for guests, partners and media
- Assist with research & program development to support guest education
- Stay up to date on current trends, new research developments and findings within field of expertise, performance psychology and/or mindfulness
- Ensures all guest requests are communicated and completed
- Ability to move, bend, and stretch as job requires
- Ability to monitor and observe client performance indoors and outside in daylight and lowlight evening conditions
- Must be able flexible hours and work weekends, and holidays
- Leadership - Maintain a positive, upbeat role, promote and exemplify Company values and represents departmental objectives and interests to internal and external customers
- Customer Service - Follow up on complaints, questions, and concerns; respond to internal/external customer needs in a friendly, timely and efficient manner
- Teamwork - Develop and promote teamwork and cooperation among co-workers
- Safety - Comply with established safe work practices and attend to all safety-related training provided or made available by the Company
- Other duties as assigned

**QUALIFICATIONS**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**Education and/or Experience**
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university
- 7+ years of experience in the field of nutrition
- Previous experience in some coaching capacity
- Registered Dietitian, Graduate Degree in Nutrition, Integrative Nutrition, Holistic Herbal Wellness or related field
- Preferred experience in hospitality and destination travel

**Required Technical / Other Skills and Abilities**
- Passion to empower individuals seeking to optimize health and lifestyle
- Passion for continuing education, professional development and personal growth
- Proficient in Apple iOS, Office 365, and/or reservation systems
- Efficient time management
- Demonstrates professional written and verbal communication
- Prepared to create educational content
- Demonstrates characteristics of leadership, professio