About this role

cKinetics is hiring a Manager, Community and Partnerships to grow the community around its convenings and to build the data partnerships behind cCarbon.info, its market intelligence business.

Our convenings bring investors, corporates, policymakers, project developers, and market participants together around carbon markets, clean fuels, carbon removals, and climate finance. The Canada Clean Fuels & Climate Markets Summit (CFCM), the Carbon Removal Investment Summit (CRIS), and the India State Climate Investment Forum (ISCIF) are the flagships. More than 30,000 professionals sit around them.

Right now that is an audience, not a network. Changing this is the first half of the job: segment it, give people a reason to show up between summits, and make it worth belonging to. The second half is data. cCarbon research is stronger when it draws on exchanges, registries, and other providers, and someone needs to go and build those relationships properly, then keep them.

The role is global. You will work across Canada, the USA, the UK, and India, with the research, marketing, and events teams, and directly with senior people outside the firm.

What we mean by the right profile

1. Community building and engagement

•     You have grown a professional community, member base, or audience, and can describe the position before and after your involvement in numbers rather than adjectives.

•     You understand the difference between a distribution list and a community, and you have built the programming, content, and rituals that turn the first into the second.

•     You have run engagement against a metric, whether that is attendance, participation, retention, or contribution, and you know what moved it.

•     You write well enough that members open what you send.

2. Partnership development

•     You build relationships that extend beyond a single transaction, with partners you have maintained over a period of years.

•     You have negotiated arrangements where value ran both ways, covering data, content, audience, or research exchange rather than payment alone.

•     You have worked alongside technical or research colleagues and can hold a credible conversation about what a dataset is worth and what it is missing.

•     You are comfortable representing an organization in senior industry and public sector settings across multiple geographies.

Key responsibilities

Community growth and engagement

•     Own the growth, segmentation, and health of the cKinetics and cCarbon community of 30,000+ professionals, and define what a qualified member of that community actually looks like.

•     Run a year round engagement calendar of roundtables, briefings, peer groups, and closed door sessions so that the community is active between convening cycles rather than only around them.

•     Build and report the engagement metrics that leadership sees monthly, and act on the segments that are going quiet.

•     Work with marketing on acquisition, onboarding, and retention, and design the member experience that makes belonging worth the time.

Data and content partnerships

•     Develop and manage partnerships with exchanges, registries, market operators, data providers, research institutions, and platforms that strengthen the cCarbon research product.

•     Negotiate data sharing, licensing, content exchange, and co-publication arrangements alongside the research and legal teams, with measurable value on both sides.

•     Own the partner relationship after signature, covering renewal, scope expansion, and issue resolution, and keep partners engaged between cycles.

•     Maintain a view of the data landscape across Canada, the USA, the UK, and India, and advise leadership on which gaps are worth closing and in what order.

Convening and institutional relationships

•     Source, confirm, brief, and look after speakers for summits, roundtables, and webinars, and own the speaker experience end to end.

•     Develop agendas with the research team so that sessions are analytically credible and worth a senior person's day.

•     Build institutional relationships with regulators, agencies, and public bodies as convening partners, speakers, and data counterparts, maintaining the platform's neutral, evidence led positioning. cKinetics informs the market and does not lobby it.

•     Hand qualified relationships to the Commercial Lead when they are ready to become sponsorship or delegate conversations, and to cCarbon when they are ready to become research or advisory conversations.

What you must have

•     Track record: 5 to 8+ years in community, partnerships, membership, programming, research operations, or a related relationship driven role, at least part of it in a small or building team.

•     Community growth: Evidence of growing a professional community or member base, with the figures to support it and a clear account of what you did to move them.

•     Partnership range: Experience negotiating and holding partnerships where the exchange involved data, content, audience, or research rather than payment alone.

•     Sector fluency: A working interest in carbon markets, clean fuels, carbon removals, or climate finance, with the ability to hold a substantive conversation with an investor or policymaker about where these markets are headed within your first month.

•     Stakeholder range: A record of engagement at all levels of a counterparty organization, from analyst to C-suite, and the judgement to handle public sector and institutional relationships.

•     Operating style: Organized, self directed, and comfortable working across time zones, with the written communication standard that a senior audience expects.

Good to have

•     Existing relationships across the carbon, clean fuels, and environmental markets ecosystem in North America, Europe, or Asia.

•     Experience launching a paid membership or association tier, or running a community against a retention target.

•     Experience engaging government or regulatory bodies in a non-advocacy capacity.

•     CRM discipline (Zoho, HubSpot, or Salesforce) and comfort working alongside marketing automation and community platforms.

•     A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Communications, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

What we offer

•     Ownership of the community and data partnership function behind a global convenings platform in climate and carbon markets.

•     An established brand, a 30,000+ professional audience, and existing market relationships and distribution channels to build on from day one.

•     A clear boundary with the commercial role, so that community work is judged on community outcomes rather than absorbed into a sales number.

•     A defined path into senior platform, research operations, or commercial leadership as the function scales.

Compensation: Competitive base salary, set by experience and location, with performance based incentives tied to community growth, engagement, and partnership outcomes.[AS1] 

To apply, send your resume and a short note on why you are a good fit to [email protected].

About cKinetics and cCarbon

cKinetics is a leading, mission-driven environmental market insight and capital advisory firm, one of the larger boutique sustainability advisory firms globally, with offices in Cupertino, California, US; Toronto, Canada and New Delhi, India.

cCarbon, a division of cKinetics, provides data, insights, and fundamental research for carbon and clean fuel markets worldwide, serving 30,000+ professionals globally with actionable insight into renewable fuels, carbon markets, and decarbonization strategies. Learn more at www.cCarbon.info.

 [AS1]To decide, if and how, there is going to be a topline element

About this role

cKinetics is hiring a Manager, Community and Partnerships to grow the community around its convenings and to build the data partnerships behind cCarbon.info, its market intelligence business.

Our convenings bring investors, corporates, policymakers, project developers, and market participants together around carbon markets, clean fuels, carbon removals, and climate finance. The Canada Clean Fuels & Climate Markets Summit (CFCM), the Carbon Removal Investment Summit (CRIS), and the India State Climate Investment Forum (ISCIF) are the flagships. More than 30,000 professionals sit around them.

Right now that is an audience, not a network. Changing this is the first half of the job: segment it, give people a reason to show up between summits, and make it worth belonging to. The second half is data. cCarbon research is stronger when it draws on exchanges, registries, and other providers, and someone needs to go and build those relationships properly, then keep them.

The role is global. You will work across Canada, the USA, the UK, and India, with the research, marketing, and events teams, and directly with senior people outside the firm.

What we mean by the right profile

1. Community building and engagement

•     You have grown a professional community, member base, or audience, and can describe the position before and after your involvement in numbers rather than adjectives.

•     You understand the difference between a distribution list and a community, and you have built the programming, content, and rituals that turn the first into the second.

•     You have run engagement against a metric, whether that is attendance, participation, retention, or contribution, and you know what moved it.

•     You write well enough that members open what you send.

2. Partnership development

•     You build relationships that extend beyond a single transaction, with partners you have maintained over a period of years.

•     You have negotiated arrangements where value ran both ways, covering data, content, audience, or research exchange rather than payment alone.

•     You have worked alongside technical or research colleagues and can hold a credible conversation about what a dataset is worth and what it is missing.

•     You are comfortable representing an organization in senior industry and public sector settings across multiple geographies.

Key responsibilities

Community growth and engagement

•     Own the growth, segmentation, and health of the cKinetics and cCarbon community of 30,000+ professionals, and define what a qualified member of that community actually looks like.

•     Run a year round engagement calendar of roundtables, briefings, peer groups, and closed door sessions so that the community is active between convening cycles rather than only around them.

•     Build and report the engagement metrics that leadership sees monthly, and act on the segments that are going quiet.

•     Work with marketing on acquisition, onboarding, and retention, and design the member experience that makes belonging worth the time.

Data and content partnerships

•     Develop and manage partnerships with exchanges, registries, market operators, data providers, research institutions, and platforms that strengthen the cCarbon research product.

•     Negotiate data sharing, licensing, content exchange, and co-publication arrangements alongside the research and legal teams, with measurable value on both sides.

•     Own the partner relationship after signature, covering renewal, scope expansion, and issue resolution, and keep partners engaged between cycles.

•     Maintain a view of the data landscape across Canada, the USA, the UK, and India, and advise leadership on which gaps are worth closing and in what order.

Convening and institutional relationships

•     Source, confirm, brief, and look after speakers for summits, roundtables, and webinars, and own the speaker experience end to end.

•     Develop agendas with the research team so that sessions are analytically credible and worth a senior person's day.

•     Build institutional relationships with regulators, agencies, and public bodies as convening partners, speakers, and data counterparts, maintaining the platform's neutral, evidence led positioning. cKinetics informs the market and does not lobby it.

•     Hand qualified relationships to the Commercial Lead when they are ready to become sponsorship or delegate conversations, and to cCarbon when they are ready to become research or advisory conversations.

What you must have

•     Track record: 5 to 8+ years in community, partnerships, membership, programming, research operations, or a related relationship driven role, at least part of it in a small or building team.

•     Community growth: Evidence of growing a professional community or member base, with the figures to support it and a clear account of what you did to move them.

•     Partnership range: Experience negotiating and holding partnerships where the exchange involved data, content, audience, or research rather than payment alone.

•     Sector fluency: A working interest in carbon markets, clean fuels, carbon removals, or climate finance, with the ability to hold a substantive conversation with an investor or policymaker about where these markets are headed within your first month.

•     Stakeholder range: A record of engagement at all levels of a counterparty organization, from analyst to C-suite, and the judgement to handle public sector and institutional relationships.

•     Operating style: Organized, self directed, and comfortable working across time zones, with the written communication standard that a senior audience expects.

Good to have

•     Existing relationships across the carbon, clean fuels, and environmental markets ecosystem in North America, Europe, or Asia.

•     Experience launching a paid membership or association tier, or running a community against a retention target.

•     Experience engaging government or regulatory bodies in a non-advocacy capacity.

•     CRM discipline (Zoho, HubSpot, or Salesforce) and comfort working alongside marketing automation and community platforms.

•     A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Communications, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

What we offer

•     Ownership of the community and data partnership function behind a global convenings platform in climate and carbon markets.

•     An established brand, a 30,000+ professional audience, and existing market relationships and distribution channels to build on from day one.

•     A clear boundary with the commercial role, so that community work is judged on community outcomes rather than absorbed into a sales number.

•     A defined path into senior platform, research operations, or commercial leadership as the function scales.

Compensation: Competitive base salary, set by experience and location, with performance based incentives tied to community growth, engagement, and partnership outcomes.[AS1] 

To apply, send your resume and a short note on why you are a good fit to [email protected].

About cKinetics and cCarbon

cKinetics is a leading, mission-driven environmental market insight and capital advisory firm, one of the larger boutique sustainability advisory firms globally, with offices in Cupertino, California, US; Toronto, Canada and New Delhi, India.

cCarbon, a division of cKinetics, provides data, insights, and fundamental research for carbon and clean fuel markets worldwide, serving 30,000+ professionals globally with actionable insight into renewable fuels, carbon markets, and decarbonization strategies. Learn more at www.cCarbon.info.

 [AS1]To decide, if and how, there is going to be a topline element

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