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The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z)
Vision: A world without hunger.
Mission: Facilitate individual and collective actions to transform the systems of inequality that create hunger and cause it to persist.
The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z) is a registered non-governmental organization under the NGO Act of 2009 and part of The Global Hunger Project, founded in 1977 with offices in 23 countries worldwide. THP-Z works to end chronic hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption. THP-Z implements projects through the Epicenter Strategy, mobilizing rural communities of 5,000–15,000 people into dynamic centers of action to meet their own basic needs and achieve sustainable self-reliance.
This initiative is implementing a Health System Strengthening – Integrated Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (IMNCHN) Project, delivered as a consortium between The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z) and Save the Children international-Zambia. The project focuses on improving nutrition and  health outcomes for mothers, infants, and young children in Mongu District, Western Province. The project is supported by the Latter-Day Saints Church (LDSC), and works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The consortium initiatives strengthen health systems, empower communities, and advance integrated, women-centered strategies to reduce malnutrition and improve maternal and child well-being.

1. Project Officer – Integrated Health, Nutrition & Agriculture
Location: Mongu, Zambia
Reports to: Country Director throughPrograms Manger
Supervises: Project Officer – Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Role Purpose
Provide overall coordination and leadership for integrated interventions that strengthen maternal and child health outcomes through nutrition-sensitive agriculture, food processing, and community mobilization. Anchor the “Nutrition for Health” pathway, ensuring equity for women and children while coordinating multi-sectoral planning and consortium delivery.
Key Responsibilities

Lead “Taste and Learn” demonstrations to promote dietary diversity and micronutrient intake.
Convene “One Village, One Plan” workshops to develop holistic Village Action Plans.
Implement gender-transformative training for men and women on equitable decision-making and resource allocation.
Facilitate the establishment and active participation of Community Savings & Nutrition Groups (CSNGs), linking financial literacy to improved nutrition.
Support the formal registration of women’s groups to enhance access to government and private sector services.
Deliver capacity-building programs for women (leadership, governance, financial management, entrepreneurship) via community animators.
Facilitate linkages to social protection services for marginalized women.
Establish Kick-Starter Centers of Nutritional Excellence integrating production, processing, entrepreneurship, and market access.
Strengthen multi-sectoral collaboration platforms for integrated nutrition planning.
Lead network-based case finding and referral for women and children experiencing Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) or maternal nutrition challenges.
Act as THP-Z’s focal point with Save the Children International, ensuring harmonized planning, data sharing, and joint reporting.
Represent THP-Z in consortium meetings, technical working groups, and joint monitoring visits.
Supervise and mentor the Agriculture Officer to ensure integrated delivery.

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Community Health, Development Studies, Agriculture with human nutrition, Social Work, or related field.
Minimum 3 years of experience in integrated health/nutrition programming in rural contexts.
Proven expertise in maternal, new born, and child health (MNCH), nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and community mobilization.
Strong experience in consortium coordination, donor reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
Demonstrated ability to lead gender-transformative and community-driven initiatives.

Added Advantages

Midwifery certification, clinical health, or maternal health background.
Experience with Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) or Community Savings Groups.
Proficiency in Lozi language.
Prior work experience in Western Province, Zambia.
Familiarity with mobile data collection tools (KoboCollect, ODK).

Note: Must have a valid driver’s licence and able to drive 4×4
2. Project Officer – Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Location: Mongu, Zambia
Reports to: Project Officer – Integrated Health, Nutrition & Agriculture
Role Purpose
Support households in adopting integrated production systems that enhance food security, dietary diversity, and income generation. Ensure agriculture contributes directly to maternal and child health outcomes while coordinating with consortium partners for integrated delivery.
Key Responsibilities

Deliver regenerative agriculture training via animators, applying THP’s Vision, Commitment, and Action (VCA) model.
Promote rearing of small livestock (chickens, goats, rabbits, fish, quails).
Facilitate cultivation of fruit trees and indigenous vegetables to improve micronutrient intake.
Support sustainable harvesting and consumption of non-wood forest food products.
Conduct training on post-harvest handling, storage, and value addition.
Promote production and consumption of homemade fortified foods tailored to maternal and child health needs.
Work with CSNGs to integrate agriculture into income-generating and nutrition-focused activities.
Establish demonstration plots and organize farmer field days showcasing regenerative and climate-smart practices.
Collaborate closely with the Health & Nutrition team to ensure agriculture interventions empower women and strengthen household nutrition.
Support the referral system by ensuring at-risk households identified through case finding benefit from nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions.
Coordinate joint field activities, farmer field days, and household-level interventions with Save the Children teams.
Share agricultural activity data with consortium partners for inclusion in joint reports.

 Qualifications & Experience

Diploma in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Animal Science, or related field.
Minimum 3 years of experience in smallholder agriculture, nutrition-sensitive farming, or rural livelihoods programming.
Practical knowledge of livestock rearing, horticulture, and post-harvest management.
Experience in community training and participatory extension approaches.

Added Advantages

Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, community development, Animal Science, or related field.
Training in Climate-Smart Agriculture or Conservation Agriculture.
Experience with community animator models.
Proficiency in Lozi language.
Prior work experience in Western Province, Zambia.
Experience with mobile data collection tools (KoboCollect, ODK).

Note: Must have a valid rider’s licence for motorbike
Inclusivity Statement
THP-Z is committed to equity and inclusion. Women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Our Client is currently seeking to hire an Accounts Assistant in Lusaka
Salary K4,500
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The job of the Accounts Assistant is to provide accounting services across all the departments. Generally, the Accounts Assistant is responsible for Bank reconciliations, Cash reconciliations, Accounts receivables and daily revenue audit.
Specifically, the duties of the Accounts Assistant include the following:
Maintenance of Purchase and Sales Ledger and Cash Books.
Bank reconciliations.
Airtel Money audit and reconciliation.
Petty cash Maintenance.
Provision of reconciliations and accounts analysis as required.
Providing support across departments as required by the manager.
Maintenance of accounting documents and filing systems.
Check, process and record payments, administer invoices and expenses claims received. code items to agreed budgets and action payments.
Follow up on any accounts within 3 days to ensure that the customer has received the invoice and does not have any questions.
Review the Accounts Receivable (A/R) aging reports daily. Follow up on aging bills if payment has not been received from clients.
Ensure statutory payments are timely paid and returns timely filed. Statutory payments include NAPSA, PAYE, NHIMA, tourism levy, VAT, Cooperate Tax, Smart Invoicing.
Participate in preparation for audits.
Verify recorded transactions and report troubling discoveries, irregularities or suspicion of wrongdoing to the Managing Director.
Collect information for and prepare payroll payments for employees.
Collection and verification of daily sales and cashing.
Preparation of quotations.
Any other task that may be assigned by the Managing Director
Experience in a (Lodge/Hotel) will be an added advantage.
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The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z)
Vision: A world without hunger.
Mission: Facilitate individual and collective actions to transform the systems of inequality that create hunger and cause it to persist.
The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z) is a registered non-governmental organization under the NGO Act of 2009 and part of The Global Hunger Project, founded in 1977 with offices in 23 countries worldwide. THP-Z works to end chronic hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption. THP-Z implements projects through the Epicenter Strategy, mobilizing rural communities of 5,000–15,000 people into dynamic centers of action to meet their own basic needs and achieve sustainable self-reliance.
This initiative is implementing a Health System Strengthening – Integrated Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (IMNCHN) Project, delivered as a consortium between The Hunger Project–Zambia (THP-Z) and Save the Children international-Zambia. The project focuses on improving nutrition and health outcomes for mothers, infants, and young children in Mongu District, Western Province. The project is supported by the Latter-Day Saints Church (LDSC), and works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The consortium initiatives strengthen health systems, empower communities, and advance integrated, women-centered strategies to reduce malnutrition and improve maternal and child well-being.
1. Project Officer – Integrated Health, Nutrition & Agriculture
Location: Mongu, Zambia
Reports to: Country Director throughPrograms Manger
Supervises: Project Officer – Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Role Purpose
Provide overall coordination and leadership for integrated interventions that strengthen maternal and child health outcomes through nutrition-sensitive agriculture, food processing, and community mobilization. Anchor the “Nutrition for Health” pathway, ensuring equity for women and children while coordinating multi-sectoral planning and consortium delivery.
Key Responsibilities

Lead “Taste and Learn” demonstrations to promote dietary diversity and micronutrient intake.
Convene “One Village, One Plan” workshops to develop holistic Village Action Plans.
Implement gender-transformative training for men and women on equitable decision-making and resource allocation.
Facilitate the establishment and active participation of Community Savings & Nutrition Groups (CSNGs), linking financial literacy to improved nutrition.
Support the formal registration of women’s groups to enhance access to government and private sector services.
Deliver capacity-building programs for women (leadership, governance, financial management, entrepreneurship) via community animators.
Facilitate linkages to social protection services for marginalized women.
Establish Kick-Starter Centers of Nutritional Excellence integrating production, processing, entrepreneurship, and market access.
Strengthen multi-sectoral collaboration platforms for integrated nutrition planning.
Lead network-based case finding and referral for women and children experiencing Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) or maternal nutrition challenges.
Act as THP-Z’s focal point with Save the Children International, ensuring harmonized planning, data sharing, and joint reporting.
Represent THP-Z in consortium meetings, technical working groups, and joint monitoring visits.
Supervise and mentor the Agriculture Officer to ensure integrated delivery.

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Community Health, Development Studies, Agriculture with human nutrition, Social Work, or related field.
Minimum 3 years of experience in integrated health/nutrition programming in rural contexts.
Proven expertise in maternal, new born, and child health (MNCH), nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and community mobilization.
Strong experience in consortium coordination, donor reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
Demonstrated ability to lead gender-transformative and community-driven initiatives.

Added Advantages

Midwifery certification, clinical health, or maternal health background.
Experience with Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) or Community Savings Groups.
Proficiency in Lozi language.
Prior work experience in Western Province, Zambia.
Familiarity with mobile data collection tools (KoboCollect, ODK).

Note: Must have a valid driver’s licence and able to drive 4×4
2. Project Officer – Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Location: Mongu, Zambia
Reports to: Project Officer – Integrated Health, Nutrition & Agriculture
Role Purpose
Support households in adopting integrated production systems that enhance food security, dietary diversity, and income generation. Ensure agriculture contributes directly to maternal and child health outcomes while coordinating with consortium partners for integrated delivery.
Key Responsibilities

Deliver regenerative agriculture training via animators, applying THP’s Vision, Commitment, and Action (VCA) model.
Promote rearing of small livestock (chickens, goats, rabbits, fish, quails).
Facilitate cultivation of fruit trees and indigenous vegetables to improve micronutrient intake.
Support sustainable harvesting and consumption of non-wood forest food products.
Conduct training on post-harvest handling, storage, and value addition.
Promote production and consumption of homemade fortified foods tailored to maternal and child health needs.
Work with CSNGs to integrate agriculture into income-generating and nutrition-focused activities.
Establish demonstration plots and organize farmer field days showcasing regenerative and climate-smart practices.
Collaborate closely with the Health & Nutrition team to ensure agriculture interventions empower women and strengthen household nutrition.
Support the referral system by ensuring at-risk households identified through case finding benefit from nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions.
Coordinate joint field activities, farmer field days, and household-level interventions with Save the Children teams.
Share agricultural activity data with consortium partners for inclusion in joint reports.

 Qualifications & Experience

Diploma in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, Animal Science, or related field.
Minimum 3 years of experience in smallholder agriculture, nutrition-sensitive farming, or rural livelihoods programming.
Practical knowledge of livestock rearing, horticulture, and post-harvest management.
Experience in community training and participatory extension approaches.

Added Advantages

Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agricultural Extension, community development, Animal Science, or related field.
Training in Climate-Smart Agriculture or Conservation Agriculture.
Experience with community animator models.
Proficiency in Lozi language.
Prior work experience in Western Province, Zambia.
Experience with mobile data collection tools (KoboCollect, ODK).

Note: Must have a valid rider’s licence for motorbike
Inclusivity Statement
THP-Z is committed to equity and inclusion. Women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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