Vocational Skills Trainer

Position Title: Vocational Skills Trainer

2026-04-05 Kabul, Kunduz Full Time 23

Job Location:	Kabul, Kunduz
Nationality:	National
Category:	Program
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	based on organization's Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	AWSDC/VA/2026/003
No. Of Jobs:	4
City:	Kabul, kunduz

Organization:	AWSDC
Years of Experience:	2-3 Years
Contract Duration:	7 Months
Gender:	Female
Education:	A bachelor’s degree in economics, business, or social sciences is required- an MSc/MBA/Masters in the related field is strongly preferred.
Close date:	2026-04-05

About AWSDC:

The Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC) is a national non-governmental organization (NGO) that has been relentlessly working towards the promotion and protection of women's rights in Afghanistan since its inception in 1999. With its key thematic focus areas of livelihoods, WASH, child/women protection, social cohesion, and humanitarian response, AWSDC has made a remarkable impact across several provinces of the country. The organization has provided humanitarian assistance to almost 65,000 COVID-19-affected individuals within its geographical areas since the onset of the pandemic. AWSDC is also a crucial humanitarian actor in Afghanistan, providing child/women protection, WASH and emergency shelter, and non-food items to vulnerable Afghan communities across the country.

In response to the current humanitarian crisis, AWSDC is scaled up its interventions in serving more people by providing life-saving assistance, protection, Livelihoods, WASH, and food/non-food items. The aligned strategic priorities will enable our target groups in addressing their acute deficits of humanitarian response, early recovery through the provision of Emergency Response (Protection, WASH, Food/NFIs) and early recovery and development interventions (Protection Services, WASH, Livelihoods and health).

AWSDC is in the process to recruit Vocational Skills Trainer for its Projects based in Kabul and Kunduz.

Job Descriptions:

The Vocational Skills Trainer will be responsible for the provision of TVET to participants who are interested to improve and learn new skills to promote either self or to join a paid job. The position holders will provide vocational and life skills training, mentoring and market linkage building to graduates. The 3 positions holder will be placed in FRC in Kunduz and 1 position holder will be placed in Kabul CBC.

Job Requirements:

In joint consultation of the supervisor and project manager identify clients for the TVET
Support the Assessment Team in the identification and types of marketable vocational skills
Conduct interview with each beneficiaries to find out the key interest and potential and introduce them to relevant TVET classes/apprenticeship
Develop/Review TVET Curriculum for the participants as guiding documents for all TVET trainers
Set-up and arrange the classes of the vocational skills training centers
Organize a batches of 10-15 trainees in each class
Develop weekly, monthly plan for the conducting trainings to participants
Conduct pre and post training to better capture pre and post learning sessions and key gaps
Provide theoretical and practical sessions for each batch of trainees
Ensure proper attendance sheet is maintained and that they are properly recoded, documented and submitted to project supervisors on weekly/monthly basis
Continues understand the market contexts and align the training to the need of the market which will ensure that the graduates can secure income sources for the skills gained
Distribution of Tool kits for TEVT Trainees after graduation
Post-graduation support (business start-up support in terms of money or equipment)
Provide coaching, mentoring sessions for graduate/trainees
Regular meetings with potential state, private and NGOs to facilitate the employment of the graduate
Prepare training and ad-hoc reporting based on the project need
Support graduates in the development of business plan and if needed operational procedures required for the entrepreneurs in promoting their businesses.
Facilitate the establishment of market linkages between graduates and potential market
Support project manager/supervisor in the development of internal and external reporting
Participate in relevant meetings as required by the project
Undertake additional tasks that are relevant to program management and activity implementation that may be assigned by her manager from time to time, including the development of new projects.
Perform any other tasks as required by the project

Skills/Knowledge:

Excellent understanding of TVET and business Development and Management
Excellent competencies in planning, implementation, development and reporting of TVET training, coaching and mentoring
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
Project management skills
Strong organizational skills
Ability to work in and build a team
Able to work independently but within strategic framework
Can handle many projects/assignments at the same time

Qualification/Experience

A bachelor’s degree in economics, business, or social sciences is required- an MSc/MBA/Masters in the related field is strongly preferred.
Proven work experience will be considered as a substitute for formal education with minimum (5) years of experience working Livelihoods project implementation position with focus on TVET
Proven work experience in TVET with national and International NGOs including UN.
IT competencies including MS Office. Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English both verbal and written is a must.

Submission Guidelines:

Interested applicants should send their CVs to the below email address no later than 05 April 2026, with the subject lineVocational Skills Trainer AWSDC/VA/2026/003 to hr@awsdc.org.af

Note 1: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants not following submission guideline their application will be rejected