Nutrition & WASH Specialist – Short‑Term Consultancy

About the role

Edward Meleki Ventures Limited is seeking a qualified Nutrition & WASH Specialist to join a multidisciplinary consultancy team for a short‑term assignment in Zambia. The specialist will provide technical input, develop and review content, and ensure quality of nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene components.

Key responsibilities

• Provide expert technical guidance on nutrition‑sensitive agriculture and food security.
• Design, develop and review training curricula, toolkits and facilitator guides for nutrition and WASH.
• Conduct quality assurance of nutrition and WASH deliverables.
• Support behaviour‑change communication and community‑based training approaches.
• Integrate gender, disability and social inclusion considerations into program design.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Nutrition, Public Health, WASH, Food Science, Agriculture, Community Development or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in donor‑funded development programmes.
• Demonstrated experience working in the Zambian context.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary consultancy team.

Required skills

• Nutrition‑sensitive agriculture and food security.
• Infant and young‑child nutrition, dietary diversity and nutrition education.
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) expertise.
• Food hygiene, safe food handling and efficient water use.
• Curriculum and toolkit development for schools or communities.
• Community‑based participatory training approaches.
• Gender, disability and social inclusion integration.
• Behaviour‑change communication.
• Technical writing and training‑material development.