SPOKE Programme Manager
- Organization
- Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES)
- Location
- Remote plus Office-Based in Kenya, or Rwanda
- Job Type
- 1 Year Renewable Contract
- Deadline for Applications
- 12/15/2025
- How to Apply
- To apply for this position, please send your CV and a covering letter to recruitment.aces@cleancooling.org before the deadline of midnight on 15th December 2025.
- Where to Apply
- https://cleancooling.org/jobs-board/vacancies/spoke-programme-manager
- Tags
- Contract
Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES) is looking for an Operations Leader to develop, manage, coordinate and operationalize SPOKEs. This will require extended periods of work in different Africa markets (based out of Kenya or Rwanda) and in the EU with our partners – you will be responsible for ensuring you have appropriate rights to resident and work permits.
Led by the Centre for Sustainable Cooling, University of Birmingham, ACES was established to lead the way in the development and roll-out of affordable, sustainable, resilient and equitable on- and off-grid cooling and cold-chain solutions for food and health sectors in Africa. The programme is developed by the Governments of Rwanda and the United Kingdom; the United Nations Environment Programme, and the UK’s Centre for Sustainable Cooling, bringing together a consortium of leading UK and international universities. Funding and support to date exceeds $30 million.
ACES is the only Centre of its kind with a focus on holistic and sustainable cold-chain solutions tailored for African markets. It has a uniquely situated and equipped 4-hectare headquarters campus in Kigali, under development:
a state of the art in-market technology test and demonstration centre;
demonstration and test facilities;
fully equipped refrigeration and data telemetrics training centres;
a business hub to support early-stage technology companies to accelerate to market and scale up their businesses.
As part of “Hub and SPOKE” approach, ACES is establishing Specialised Outreach and Knowledge Establishments (SPOKEs) to showcase how solutions can be deployed in practical, real-world applications and provide the on-site and outreach learning, training and knowledge transfer, and technical assistance Centres to support local community uptake. The first SPOKE model is being developed in Kenya with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS); further SPOKEs are being developed in Kenya and other markets.
The candidate can be based in Kenya or Rwanda, and will be expected to travel within the EU.
