Position Title: Package Manager
2025-10-28        Kabul       Full Time        8
Job Location: Kabul
Nationality: National
Category: Program
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: .
Vacancy Number: VR/0030
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Kabul
Organization: Afghanaid
Years of Experience: 5 years
Contract Duration: 18 Month
Gender: Male
Education: Master Degree
Close date: 2025-10-28

About Afghanaid:

Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktia. For 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.

Job Descriptions:
  • Lead the implementation of activities in alignment with the project workplan and objectives.
  • Ensure coordination with local authorities and stakeholders as well as negotiation and implementation of all necessary MoUs and contracts
  • Supervise and support field staff involved in livelihood package distribution, training, and follow-up.
  • Monitor progress of field activities, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely reporting of challenges and successes.
  • Ensure that project implementation complies with organizational, donor, and government guidelines.
  • Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress reports, as well as donor reports, ensuring the timely provision of accurate data on outputs, outcomes, and impact.
  • Manage the project’s budget, monitor expenditure, and ensure cost-effective use of resources.
  • Supervise and provide guidance to technical specialists and provincial managers.
  • Ensure the integration of gender, protection, and environmental sustainability into all project activities.
  • Conduct regular field visits to assess progress, gather feedback, and provide on-the-ground support to field teams.
  • Collaborate closely with the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning), Finance, and Grants Management teams to ensure accurate documentation, data tracking, financial management, and donor reporting.
  • Participate in internal & external trainings proposed by Afghanaid Senior Management Staff
  • Ensure that Monthly Individual Action plan is in place.
  • Perform any other tasks not mentioned in the job description when requested by Afghanaid Senior Management Team based on the requisition/ requirements of the program
Job Requirements:

Education & Professional

Master’s degree in administration or another relevant area or equivalent professional experience. Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years’ experience in Community Driven Development projects.

Work Experience

At least 5 years’ experience in Community Driven Development projects and works.

Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes

Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable professional with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as excellent skills in communication, organisational, interpersonal relations, decision-making, financial management and reporting.

Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:

Key Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Knowledge of project cycle management, including planning, budgeting, and reporting
  • Strong ability to plan, implement, and monitor multiple project components simultaneously
  • Experience in budget monitoring, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting
  • Experience in report writing and planning
  • Experience in implementing projects focussed on livelihoods promotion and community resilience
  • Familiarity with community-led, participatory, gender-sensitive, and inclusive programming approaches
  • Training and capacity building skills in participatory monitoring methods
  • Excellent conceptual and analytical skills able to distil key ideas with clarity and precision.
  • Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to work with significant levels of autonomy, manage personal priorities and meet tight deadlines.
  • Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, and time management skills, with the ability to effectively work in a team.
  • Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high-quality documents.
  • Fluency in English, Pashto and Dari, both written and spoken
  • Honest, proactive, and well mannered.
  • Sensitivity to Islamic culture.
  • Commitment to support/develop the capacity of the national staff and of rural communities      

Desirable

Previous work experience in the same positon with INGOs

Submission Guidelines:

Please create your portal account and submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form by no later than 28 October 2025. Your covering letter and CV should be in PDF format.  Your covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. Afghanaid has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Afghanaid is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

We invite qualified candidates to apply for the position through the Afghanaid HR portal. Please click on the link below to complete your application.

Link for the Afghanaid HR portal: https://afghanaid.odoo.com/jobs/detail/package-manager-30

 Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful for shortlisting.

Note: Priority will be given to candidates from the local area. Local candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position. 

Submission Email:

https://afghanaid.odoo.com/jobs/detail/package-manager-30

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