Chief Sustainability Officers

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Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), Sustainability Director, Sustainability Manager, Sustainable Design Director

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What they do:
Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.
On the job, you would:
  • Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.
  • Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.
  • Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • management
  • customer service

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Communications

  • multimedia

Skills

Basic Skills

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • writing things for co-workers or customers

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by writing
  • communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

  • come up with lots of ideas
  • create new and original ideas

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Leadership
  • Initiative
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence
  • Integrity
  • Analytical Thinking

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP
  • SAP software Hot Technology

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology In Demand

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook Hot Technology In Demand

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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