We are a team building resilient Clean Cooling in the Global South. The Clean Cooling Network is about solving two big global challenges simultaneously – equitable access to cooling and cold-chain, and the global renewable energy transition.
We are pioneers, innovators, researchers, modellers, practitioners, and teachers. We work on the ground at our centres in India and Africa; in our labs and research facilities in the UK and Europe; and in our offices, developing our physical and on-line facilities. These include spaces for teaching, knowledge sharing, and interacting, building awareness and capacity with our many stakeholders, as well as the underpinning operations, administration, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous learning.
Across our many locations, we currently form a team of more than 65, yet we work cohesively as one collegial team. We work together to bring know-how, ingenuity, and agile thinking to everything we do. We strive for an environment where creativity, talent, and hard work are rewarded - a place to be your best self. We are supportive; whether facing success, setbacks, or anything in between, we are all in. And, we are serious about our commitment to the well-being, health, and safety of our colleagues, our students, partners, and the communities in which we operate.
Our open roles are listed below. If you want to play a part in our shared purpose - making a positive impact by shaping the future of cooling - but don’t see a position that describes your talent and experience, email your CV and cover letter to [email protected], our recruitment partner. Clean Cooling wants to connect with you.
Open positions
Strategic Communications and Media Manager
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Immediate start
Remote or Office-Based in Kigali, Rwanda
As our Strategic Communications and Media Manager, you will be a strategic storyteller with a passion for driving impact; securing investment and building engagement . You can help us share the story of innovation, opportunity, and engagement as we work together to advance cooling and cold-chain solutions that benefit communities and environment worldwide..
Student Support Manager
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Immediate start
Remote or Office-Based in Kigali, Rwanda
As a Student Support Officer, you will play a vital role in enhancing the academic experience by providing pro-active support and guidance to students and lecturers. You will be responsible for supporting digital and in-person learning environments, ensuring they are engaging and students have a help-desk and support service when required.
Convenings, Communities of Practice and Events Manager
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
Immediate start
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda
As the CCN’s Convenings and Events Manager, you will support and catalyse the programmatic teams to use convenings to advance programmatic objectives. You will provide the day-to-day management of the convening and events programmes, including programme design, relationship engagement and outreach, due diligence and impact-tracking.
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 - One Health program
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
Ideally situated in the capital of Kigali, it is the headquarters of the ACES project.
Konza Technopolis
Konza, Kenya
A key flagship project of Kenya’s Vision 2030 economic development portfolio.
HACE Complex
Panchkula, India
The training centre at the HACE Complex, delivers training courses for the CoE-SPMCC.
