The Clean Cooling Jobs Board offers a growing range of positions and opportunities for all, at ACES, the Clean Cooling Network and more organisations.
Looking to work somewhere exciting, informative and empowering? The Clean Cooling Network wants to connect with you.
Jobs & Opportunities
Make a positive impact by shaping the future of cooling and cold-chain development
Work in cold-chain and cooling
We are proud to offer positions internally at the Clean Cooling Network and other opportunities with partner organisations.
We are pioneers, innovators, researchers, modellers, practitioners, and teachers.
We work on the ground at our centres globally, in our labs and research facilities in the UK and Europe, and in our offices, developing our physical and online facilities.
Open positions
We are always looking for the right kind of talent, and are keen to employ passionate climate change and cooling enthusiasts to our team. Contact us at [email protected] if you feel you would be suitable.
HR and OPS Assistant
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
15/01/2026 start
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda
The HR & Operations Assistant will provide essential support to ACES by coordinating key HR processes, maintaining employee records, and managing HR-related documentation. The role supports daily office operations, including scheduling meetings, assisting visitors, and managing filing, printing, scanning, and other administrative tasks. You will be office-based at Rubirizi ACES, Campus, Kigali Rwanda.
SPOKE Programme Manager
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
15/01/2026 start
Remote plus Office-Based in Kenya, or Rwanda
We are looking for an Operations Leader to develop, manage, coordinate, and operationalise SPOKEs. Your activities will include, among others: Project planning, developing and managing the work plans of new and existing SPOKEs, and generally ensuring proper execution, quality control, and reporting. To work and support the international and in-country teams, and to use your knowledge of the research funding landscape to identify and pursue grant funding, foundation, and impact investor opportunities.
Lecturer (Logistics)
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Immediate start
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda
You will support curriculum delivery and applied learning. The Lecturer in Logistics will support the design and facilitation of training modules and applied projects focusing on sustainable and efficient cold-chain logistics for agri-food systems and related sectors. Working closely with trainers, programme coordinators, and innovation teams, the role holder will be responsible for enabling trainees to develop practical logistics solutions that enhance supply chain efficiency, reduce losses, and improve access to markets.
Lecturer (Community-Based Business Models including Value Creation & Addition)
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Immediate start
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda
The Lecturer in Community-Based Business Models (including Value Creation and Value Addition) will support the design and facilitation of training modules and applied projects focusing on sustainable and inclusive business model development for the cold-chain, food processing, and related sectors. Working closely with trainers, programme coordinators, and innovation teams, this role will be responsible for enabling trainees to build and test viable community-led solutions that improve livelihoods.
Featured Employee
Why work at ACES in the Clean Cooling Network? Meet Jean Pierre: Research Lead for the One Health Programme, and find out what he does for the CCN at the ACES Rubirizi campus in Rwanda.
Jean Pierre Musabyimana
Research Lead
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
In this capacity, he actively contributes to conceiving and implementing innovative cold chain models for vaccines, diagnostics and antibody development that span sectors and geographies, applying renewable energy refrigeration, IoT-enabled temperature monitoring, and robust biobanking to safeguard biologicals and bolster supply chain integrity in low-resource settings.
An infection biologist with a PhD in Cell and Applied Infection Biology and dual MScs in Biotechnology & Bioinformatics and Global Health Delivery, Jean Pierre leverages his expertise in structural/comparative genomics, vaccine and therapeutic R&D, and advanced bioinformatics pipelines to align laboratory innovation with field needs.
He forges multisectoral partnerships with universities, industry, and government to pilot context-adapted interventions, drawing on One Health insights into urban agriculture, food systems, and resilience and addressing food safety risks through integrated approaches.
Regionally, he co-leads pandemic surveillance, genomics and climate modelling consortia, most notably the EDCTP3-funded GREAT LIFE initiative, which deploys field-portable genomics and novel diagnostics across the African Great Lakes, advancing early detection and response. As Co-PI of the KIVU JUA consortium, he spearheads Mpox epidemiology and immunology research in Central Africa, contributing to the WHO Mpox Genomic Surveillance Community of Practice and serving on Africa CDC’s RISLNET committee. He also co-leads malaria drug resistance surveillance in East Africa, integrating NGS workflows into routine monitoring for artemisinin resistance.
Passionate about sustainable cooling, Jean Pierre weaves environmental engineering, data analytics, and One Health principles to reinforce vaccine delivery, food safety, and overall health system resilience, positioning ACES and Rwanda as models for cross-sectoral, climate-smart public health preparedness.
Venues
Our flagship campus is located in Kigali, Rwanda. We have numerous jobs available on campus, and we also have a range of positions available, where you can work fully remote or do a combination of the two. We are extremely flexible at the Clean Cooling Network and want to hear from you.
We also have new openings coming in India, at the HACE Complex, and we can offer remote and flexible working options.
ACES Rubirizi Campus
Kigali, Rwanda
The Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) is ideally situated in the capital of Kigali.
Konza Technopolis
Konza, Kenya
A key flagship project of Kenya’s Vision 2030 economic development portfolio.
HACE Complex
Panchkula, India
The Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Crop Post-harvest Management and Cold-Chain, located in Haryana India.
CCN Online Academy
Global Availability
Course content is delivered online via our dedicated Learning Management Platform.
