Community Development Manager

Salary: up to EUR 109.000 (before taxes) depending on leadership experience. Additionally we offer excellent secondary benefits (see below)

Full-time: 37.5 hours per week 

IMPORTANT: you should be living within the RIPE NCC service region, ideally in the Netherlands 

At the RIPE NCC, community development and engagement are at the heart of our mission. With a service region spanning more than 70 countries, we are committed to building strong, inclusive, and sustainable communities that support the Internet’s resilience and growth. To strengthen this effort, we are seeking a Manager for the Community Development team, who can establish a long-term vision for how we engage with diverse communities across cultures, languages, and needs, while ensuring the effective delivery of our programs, and partnerships.

Our ideal candidate is someone who sees the big picture of how engagement and development can evolve in the coming years, but also knows how to translate that vision into tangible results. This person should be a skilled leader of highly capable professionals, able to bring together individuals working on multiple projects, activities, and scopes, and align them towards shared goals and clear outcomes.

🧠 What You Will Be Doing:  

• Set the vision and tactics for engagement with our membership and RIPE community across more than 70 countries, ensuring our activities remain inclusive, impactful, and aligned with long-term organisational goals.
  
  

• Lead and support a highly skilled team working on diverse projects and activities at both regional and national levels. These include academic outreach, partnerships and sponsorships, Internet measurement initiatives, promotion and deployment of data services, and fellowship programmes. Your role will be to align these efforts under shared objectives, foster collaboration across projects, and ensure delivery of measurable outcomes that strengthen our community’s engagement and impact.
  
  

• Collaborate across teams such as Communications, Web Services, and Events to oversee the delivery of our flagship activities. This includes RIPE Meetings, regional meetings (MENOG, CAPIF, SEE), and national-level engagements like RIPE NCC Days and Internet Measurement Days. You will ensure these activities are well-coordinated, strategically aligned, and impactful, creating meaningful spaces for the community to connect, share expertise, and shape the future of the Internet.
  
  

• Develop and manage sponsorships and partnerships to support our events, promote our data services and Internet measurement platforms (such as RIPE Atlas, RIS, K-root, and AuthDNS), and support community initiatives. You will identify opportunities for collaboration, build relationships with external stakeholders, and ensure that partnerships are aligned with our mission and deliver value to both the RIPE NCC and the wider Internet community.

👀 What We Expect from You:

• Serve the Mission: Align all priorities, actions, and decisions with the RIPE NCC’s mission and strategy  to strengthen the Internet and its community.
  
  

• Foster Collaboration: Build trust and create an inclusive environment where diverse voices across 70+ countries can work together effectively.
  
  

• Communicate with Clarity: Convey information and expectations clearly, consistently, and transparently, and adjust communication style to the audience and context.
  
  

• Embrace Diversity: You actively value the cultural, regional, and professional diversity from over 70 countries in the service region, ensuring underrepresented voices are included and empowered to engage in community activities.
  
  

• Inspire Growth: Support the development of your team and community members, encouraging innovation and new approaches to engagement.
  
  

• Enable Change: Lead your team and stakeholders through change with empathy and resilience, ensuring our work stays relevant in a fast-evolving environment.
  
  

• Act with Courage: Make difficult decisions, address challenges head-on, and stand up for what is right.

📢What You Can Expect From Us:

If you are based in the Netherlands:

• A modern, flexible and informal work environment with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance

• Flexible hybrid working policy, so you can arrange your weekly office and 'working from home' days in a way that works for you. Working from abroad for a number of days per year is also possible.

• An annual salary up to EUR 109.000  (before tax). This includes the standard 8% annual “holiday pay”.

• Excellent secondary benefits: 5% end-of-year allowance, annual budgets for health, transportation and technology purposes, non-contributory pension scheme, paid parental leave, top-tier health insurance coverage for you and your family and 33 vacation days (full-time 37.5 hours)

• A generous training budget each year that can be used for professional development

• Organisation-wide internal training program designed to develop critical soft skills—like feedback, resilience, and leadership—giving you the tools to excel in your career and beyond.

• An in-house free barista providing healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays, plus monthly office social events.

• Casual team events such as team outings, annual Christmas party and summer BBQ. 

If you are based outside the Netherlands: 

• Salary will be based on salary market data of the country of residence. Your employment contract will be via a third party with a local entity; Remote (as our employer of record company).
  

• Our generous secondary benefits package will be translated into additional payments to your base salary. 

👥The Community Development  Department

Our team is motivated by impact. 

We are proud of being trusted by our members and the wider community as conveners, bridge-builders, and enablers of meaningful collaboration.

We work as a highly skilled and supportive team, managing different projects and areas of expertise but always coming together around shared objectives and a common purpose. We value openness, inclusivity, and creativity in how we approach our work, and we collaborate closely with other teams across the RIPE NCC.

Just as importantly, we make the work fun. Whether it’s through the energy of our events, the spirit of collaboration, we believe that engagement should be inspiring and enjoyable for our community, and for ourselves as a team.

🛜About The RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and are proud of our legacy.

Our strength is our staff. We bring together more than 180+ people from over 44 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. Currently, we have a hybrid way of working and allow our staff to work from their homes and the office. Our official working language is English, but our colleagues speak more than 30 languages.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

📋How To Apply

If interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button and submit your CV and cover letter in English. Adding a cover letter is highly important and appreciated, our team read them carefully. 

Not ready to apply yet? Then send me an email to openings@ripe.net and we can have an informal chat.

At the RIPE NCC, we are proud to serve our members and the RIPE community in 76 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. We celebrate unique perspectives and talents from different backgrounds and cultures. So if you're passionate about what you do and want to help shape the future of the Internet, apply now - we'd love to hear your story. 

Please note that due to the nature of our activities, we will require successful candidates to follow a pre-employment screening (conducted by our partner DISA). This involves carrying out a background check and sharing education certificates.