Grants 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 coordinate grants management processes across VDO programs and partnerships.
• Manage the full grant lifecycle including donor mapping, opportunity tracking, proposal coordination, grant negotiations, compliance monitoring, donor communication, reporting tracking, amendments, and closeout processes.
• Develop grant management systems, trackers, reporting calendars, compliance checklists, and donor communication records.
• Coordinate closely with program, finance, MEAL, procurement, HR, and operations teams to ensure grant implementation aligns with approved proposals, budgets, donor regulations, and reporting timelines.
• Review donor agreements, contractual obligations, compliance requirements, and budget conditions and provide guidance to project teams. 
• Monitor grant performance, expenditure trends, implementation progress, reporting deadlines, and donor deliverables.
• Support proposal development including narrative writing, budgeting coordination, annex preparation, and donor submissions.
• Maintain organized grant files, donor correspondence, agreements, reports, and modification records.
• Support donor audits, spot checks, and grant compliance reviews.
• Prepare grant summaries, compliance updates, and management reports for leadership.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Development Studies, International Relations, Business Administration, Public Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years of grants management experience within NGOs or donor-funded organizations.
• Strong understanding of donor compliance requirements, proposal development, reporting systems, and grant lifecycle management; excellent analytical, writing, coordination, and communication skills.
• 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/1FAIpQLSfgMqbOv5ebPsIT144QTrBk7N5Q3UKWHiO8nex8ZiLABe7l0Q/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.