Program Development Specialist (Call for CVs)

Vision Development Organization (VDO), founded in 2015 by Afghan women leaders, is a national, women-led NGO dedicated to advancing the dignity, resilience, and leadership of women, youth, and marginalized communities. Despite Afghanistan’s complex humanitarian and governance challenges, VDO has grown into a trusted, principled, and adaptive organization, delivering programs in protection, education, livelihoods, social inclusion, and community development across multiple provinces. Anchored in integrity, accountability, and operational excellence, VDO upholds strong governance, safeguarding, and compliance standards while championing women’s leadership and equitable, high-quality service delivery.

• Lead and support organizational program development, resource mobilization, proposal writing, donor engagement, strategic partnerships, and consortium development initiatives.
• Conduct donor mapping, funding opportunity analysis, market scanning, and strategic positioning of VDO within humanitarian and development sectors.
• Coordinate development of high-quality concept notes, proposals, budgets, logical frameworks, theories of change, implementation plans, and donor presentations.
• Facilitate consortium discussions, partnership negotiations, technical coordination, and collaborative proposal development with national and international partners.
• Coordinate with program, finance, MEAL, operations, safeguarding, and technical departments to collect inputs for proposals and organizational presentations.
• Develop capability statements, organizational profiles, presentations, donor briefs, and strategic communication materials. Represent VDO in donor meetings, networking forums, coordination events, and strategic consultations.
• Monitor donor trends, funding priorities, humanitarian contexts, and strategic opportunities relevant to VDO programming.
• Support institutional fundraising, strategic planning, and organizational growth initiatives.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Development Studies, International Relations, Public Administration, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in proposal development, fundraising, grants, or program design within NGOs or donor-funded organizations.
• Excellent proposal writing, analytical, coordination, and presentation skills; strong understanding of donor systems and consortium management.
• English excellent, Dari and Pashtu fluent.

Vision Development Organization (VDO) is accepting CVs and applications from qualified candidates from 13 June 2026 to 27 June 2026 to establish a candidate roster (database) for future employment opportunities. Eligible applicants with relevant qualifications and work experience are encouraged to apply through the Google Form available below on the website. Shortlisted candidates will be included in the roster and considered for vacancies based on project needs. The opportunity is open to both women and men, and Mahram expenses for female staff will be supported where applicable. 

All qualified candidates are requested to copy and open the below given link and follow the instructions:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJS6EPppsQ4o8uGd0ndxV9AJR0V1GSRkUGqOgI0a3TFNfp-g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=109440621383724205465

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test or interviews. If you are not contacted Two or Three Weeks after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post.