Senior Business Development Manager

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Senior Business Development Manager for World Vision Afghanistan, you will be responsible for the timely and effective management and business development of a large multi-donor grant portfolio. Within the Programs Development and Quality (PDQ), Department you will oversee all aspects of business development, including proposal development, reporting, donor compliance, and administrative functions. You will serve as a key figure, proactively identifying funding opportunities, developing high-quality concept notes and proposals, engaging with in-country and external donor representatives, and coordinating concept and proposal development teams in partnership with the PDQ Director. This role requires ensuring adherence to call guidelines, close collaboration with World Vision Support Office (SO) contacts, and regular communication with the World Vision MEER Regional Office Resource Development Unit (RDU). You will bring expertise in grant acquisition and proposal development to ensure proposals possess quality and innovation, enhancing competitiveness and maximising grant acquisition rates while aligning with World Vision Afghanistan’s National Strategy and World Vision International (WVI)’s child well-being objectives.

Furthermore, you will provide support to project managers for portfolio projects, overseeing the management and communication of the Grant Health Tracker (GHT) and facilitating the integration, execution, and strategic reporting of child well-being outcomes, targets, and indicators within grant designs, wherever possible. You will also provide aid and guidance to national program officers, zonal managers, project managers, and technical specialists to ensure comprehension, implementation, and compliance with the WVI partnership and donor-mandated requirements. The emphasis is placed on ensuring that grants developed for new opportunities are grounded in evidence, incorporate gender and protection mainstreaming principles, and align with WVI’s ESCA goals.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree/ equivalent in relevant field and applicable experience in nonprofit governance, administration, grants management, including business development and compliance.
• Minimum five (5) years of programming experience in development and/or relief work (possible flexibility on programming experience).
• Experience in grant acquisition/grant writing/fund raising; project design and proposal development for international donor agencies.
• Experience within cross cultural contexts.
• Experience in integrated project design and monitoring and evaluation systems development.
• Advanced written and spoken English language skills. Expressing ideas clearly and effectively, both in spoken and written English is a must for this role.
• Position is based in Herat, Afghanistan, with possible travel up to 30% of the time (Afghanistan and international).