Donor Relations Associate

Overview

Join our External Relations team as a Donor Relations Associate and play a key role in strengthening HD’s partnerships with donors. You’ll support the management of core and multi-project grants, ensuring compliance, timely reporting, and strategic donor engagement — all while helping us diversify our funding sources. You’ll be working at the heart of HD’s donor strategy — building relationships that fuel our mission.

This role offers meaningful impact, professional growth, and the chance to work with a passionate, global team.

The position is embedded in HD’s External Relations team. The team combines donor relations and fundraising with external communications functions and works to ensure that HD’s income meets the organisation’s needs. The External Relations team develops and maintains close relations with government and private donors, coordinates the organisation’s efforts to diversify its funding, and supports programme staff across regions in their fundraising efforts.

The ER team ensures the coordination of core and multi-project grants implemented across HD teams.

• Support HD teams in complying with grant requirements and ensure high-quality, on-time reporting.
• Help identify new funding opportunities, and support proposal development for grant renewals.
• Maintain and update the donor relations database with key insights and portfolio data.
• Coordinate and contribute to donor visits, meetings and events, providing logistical and strategic support.
• Analyse donor trends and brief internal teams to enhance engagement strategies.

• At least 3 years’ experience with donor relationships and grant agreements in the non-profit sector
• Experience with information sharing and liaising between teams
• Excellent English communication, editing and writing skills (bilingual with French an advantage)
• Excellent communicator and interpersonal skills
• Teamwork and cooperation
• A positive, autonomous, and self-driven profile
• At ease with cross-functional relations, and ability to effectively consult, coax and coordinate across multi-stakeholder contexts

If you are interested in this position and meet the above criteria, please send your CV along with a short cover letter (maximum 2 pages) in a single PDF file to hrgeneva by 20 February 2026
. Please indicate “Donor Relations Associate” in the subject line of your e-mail.

HD promotes equal opportunities in employment.