A story from Behrampura, Ahmedabad
“Under the tin roof my room was 44 degrees at night. With the white paint it is 38. My son sleeps now.”
- Climate · extreme heat
- Community organising × Building physics
- Full-time
- Closes 3 Feb
Cool Roof Organiser
Coolpath · Ahmedabad, field-based · ₹18–24L · 15 people
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A heat map only matters if the hottest homes get cooler.
Coolpath's maps show where Ahmedabad's tin-roofed homes trap the most heat. Inside them the temperature stays above 40 degrees long after sunset, and the people who live there can't sleep or recover before the next day's work.
The Cool Roof Organiser turns the map into roofs. You work with residents' groups to choose which homes go first, run the painting days, and log the temperature before and after, so the city pays for the next thousand.
Where this role takes you
Coolpath's 2030 goal, and where the work is today
1,400roofs painted in Ahmedabad
7% of the way to the goal20,000roofs by 2028
Week 1
You knock on doors.
Walk Behrampura with Farah and Kiran's residents' group. Put temperature loggers in twenty homes and ask each family which room is worst at night.
With
20homes logging temperature
Meet the crew. There's a seat for you.
- You?This seatCool Roof Organiser
Farah Sheikh · Field coordinator, your manager
“I'll introduce you to every residents' group in Behrampura. After that, they decide whether they trust you.”
On a bad day: goes quiet and fixes things.
A painting Saturday
April, before peak heat
- 05:30Load paint and rollers at the depot
- 06:30Roof briefing with the residents' group
- 07:00Paint, check and photograph each roof
- 11:30Heat hours: rest, no roof work
- 16:30Download the temperature loggers
- 19:00Chai on the roof
What life is like
- Summer
- No outdoor work from 12 to 4. Field shifts start at dawn.
- Saturdays
- Painting days, with a weekday off in return.
- Every month
- Photo walk and critique, open to the whole team.
- Diwali
- Ten days off for everyone.
What you'll do
- Run cool roof programmes with residents' groups
- Choose homes using Coolpath heat maps
- Lead painting days safely, from dawn
- Measure indoor temperatures before and after
What you bring
- 3+ years of community organising or field programmes
- Comfort with simple sensors and spreadsheets
- Gujarati and Hindi
- Calm in a crowd, and on a roof
- No engineering degree. Vikram will teach you how the paint and the loggers work.
Your part in it
- CHOOSE
- which homes go first, with the heat map and the residents' group.
- RUN
- painting days from dawn, with residents on the rollers.
- LOG
- indoor temperatures before and after in every painted home.
- KEEP
- everyone off the roofs from 12 to 4 in summer.
- PRESENT
- a year of readings to the municipal corporation, with Anjali.
What success looks like
- DAY 30
- you've walked Behrampura with Kiran's residents' group and have loggers in twenty homes.
- DAY 60
- the first two hundred roofs are chosen, with the heat map and the residents' group.
- DAY 90
- you run your first painting day: two hundred roofs in one weekend.
What you’ll need
- 3+ years of community organising or field programmes
- Comfort with simple sensors and spreadsheets
- Calm in a crowd, and on a roof
Nice to have, not required
- Any building or roofing background. Vikram will teach you how the paint and the loggers work.
Where you’ll work
- FIELD
- Behrampura and the other homes on the heat map, most days.
- OFFICE
- Ahmedabad, for planning and logger data during the heat hours.
- HOURS
- India Standard Time. Field shifts start at dawn, and no outdoor work from 12 to 4 in summer.
- WEEKEND
- Saturday painting days, with a weekday off in return.
Languages
| Language | Need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Gujarati | Required | Most families in Behrampura speak it at home. |
| Hindi | Required | Residents' meetings and painting days often switch to it. |
| English | Nice to have | The before-and-after reports for the municipal corporation are in English. |
The essentials
Cool Roof Organiser · Coolpath
- Salary
- ₹18–24L
- Where
- Ahmedabad, field-based
- Leave
- 24 days + Diwali
- Kit
- Temperature loggers + safety gear
How you'll interview · about 2 weeks
- 1 · Chat with Farah
- 2 · Plan one painting day (paid)
- 3 · Meet the crew
- 4 · A morning in Behrampura
Your first stop
Twenty homes in Behrampura
Not ready to apply? Talk to Farah for 15 minutes.
No CV needed. Ask about the work, the people, or what a hard week looks like.