Edward Meleki Ventures Limited is a diversified Zambian company providing integrated solutions across sectors including trading, agriculture, forestry, construction, transport, hospitality, property development, research, environmental consultancy, and professional services. The company has specialist capabilities in forestry and natural resource management, climate change advisory, carbon project development, environmental research, GIS and remote sensing, monitoring and evaluation, project management, and technical capacity building. By combining commercial discipline with sustainable development principles, the organization focuses on creating measurable value for clients, communities, and the environment. Its work is guided by integrity, innovation, growth, and impact, offering professionals opportunities to contribute to both business performance and sustainable development outcomes.

Edward Meleki Ventures Limited (EMVL) is seeking expressions of interest from a qualified Nutrition & WASH Specialist for inclusion in a multidisciplinary team for an upcoming consultancy assignment in Zambia.

Key Areas of Expertise

The specialist should have demonstrated experience in:

• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food security
• Infant, young child and/or community nutrition
• Dietary diversity and nutrition education
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• Food hygiene and safe food handling
• Safe and efficient water use
• Development/review of training curricula, toolkits or facilitator guides
• Community-based and participatory training approaches
• Gender, disability and social inclusion
• Behaviour change communication
• Working with schools, communities and/or vulnerable populations

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants should preferably possess:

• A Bachelors degree or equivalent advanced qualification in Nutrition, Public Health, WASH, Food Science, Agriculture, Community Development or a closely related field;
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience;
• Demonstrated experience supporting donor-funded development programmes;
• Strong technical writing and training-material development skills;
• Experience working in the Zambian context;
• Excellent written and spoken English; and
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary consultancy team.

Experience developing or reviewing nutrition/WASH training materials for schools or communities will be a strong advantage.

Nature of Engagement

This will be a short-term specialist input within a broader consultancy team. The selected specialist will primarily provide technical input, content development/review and quality assurance for nutrition and WASH components of the assignment.

• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food security
• Infant, young child and/or community nutrition
• Dietary diversity and nutrition education
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• Food hygiene and safe food handling
• Safe and efficient water use
• Development/review of training curricula, toolkits or facilitator guides
• Community-based and participatory training approaches
• Gender, disability and social inclusion
• Behaviour change communication
• Working with schools, communities and/or vulnerable populations
• Technical writing
• Training-material development
• Working in the Zambian context
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary consultancy team

• A Bachelors degree or equivalent advanced qualification in Nutrition, Public Health, WASH, Food Science, Agriculture, Community Development or a closely related field;
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience;
• Demonstrated experience supporting donor-funded development programmes;
• Strong technical writing and training-material development skills;
• Experience working in the Zambian context;
• Excellent written and spoken English; and
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary consultancy team.
• Experience developing or reviewing nutrition/WASH training materials for schools or communities will be a strong advantage.