Economic Development Program Manager (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 the strategic planning, implementation, supervision, and expansion of economic development, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, and market systems programs across target provinces.
• Develop annual workplans, budgets, implementation frameworks, and partnership strategies aligned with donor requirements and VDO policies.
• Oversee value chain development, enterprise support, income generation activities, financial inclusion initiatives, and private sector engagement.
• Supervise program staff, coordinators, mentors, and field teams.
• Ensure integration of gender equality, safeguarding, climate resilience, disability inclusion, youth empowerment, and accountability mechanisms into all programming.
• Lead donor reporting, proposal development, risk management, monitoring systems, and stakeholder coordination.
• Facilitate partnerships with financial institutions, chambers of commerce, cooperatives, vocational centers, and private sector actors. Represent VDO in coordination forums, donor meetings, and technical working groups.

• Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Development Studies, Agriculture Economics, or related field.
• Minimum 7–10 years of senior-level experience in livelihoods, economic development, market systems, or enterprise development programs.
• Strong donor compliance and grant management experience.
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.
• Experience managing multi-provincial programs and teams.
• Strong analytical and coordination abilities.
• 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/1FAIpQLSfe9S-4Y7J6kBANFoYWIsvtlRjCf-UGuC_-R0wTeHSpt8Qj7Q/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.