Sobriety already has its leader

Office book. “Energy sober project manager (M/F) in CDI, Ile-de-France, 38,000 euros”, can be read on the site of the Aquanti recruitment firm. Sobriety is very officially entrying into a business. Would she also enter the management, responding from TAC to the TAC to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne who invited MEDEF entrepreneurs at the end of August to create “sobriety ambassadors” in business?

“Attached to general management, you will have the task of operationally piloting existing projects for reducing energy consumption”, continues the ad. The “Chief Sobriety Officer” will he dislodge or accompany the “Chief Sustainability Officer”, even the “Chief Impact Officer”?

It is on this track that the humorist Karim Duval surfs in a post published on LinkedIn on September 3: “I am told in the headset that it is urgent to make a decision: I stop humor And gives me a new professional challenge. It is with immense joy that I tell you my new job: Chief Sobriety Officer (CSO) at Kikooz! Kikooz is a start-up that allows those who have chosen the way Do It Yourself (DIY) to train in sewing, in the metarers (…). My name is Karim Duval, I will be CCPVO (Chief is not Versailles Officer) this Monday. And I will change the world. ” So he concluded his sketch.

More seriously, we are not there yet. If the directions of companies have long integrated environmental subjects, under the label “Social and environmental responsibility” (CSR) or “Sustainable development”, have “sobriety” carried by a “referent manager” or “an ambassador” is Still at the stage of reflection.

The definition of the ideal profile

General departments reflect on economy measures for the end of the year, but sobriety players are still rare in business. The indeed use site has a few announcements that refer to sobriety. “But the titles [Energy Sobriety Animator Internship, alternating engineer actor in energy sobriety] suggest that it is temporary, and we are on very low volumes, less than fifty announcements for all of France”, indicates Alexandre Judes, economist at Indeed France.

Caroline Renoux, Director General of a recruitment firm specializing in CSR, confirms that she does not have a request for “Chief Sobriety Officer” from her client companies. “The extremely requested positions are those of climate officials, part of the roadmap part of sobriety,” she explains. Within a club of sustainable development departments, they work on the definition of the ideal profile to embody this type of management function which must “both intervene on telework, digital, heating, and do the relay with All employees, to raise awareness, know how to train. Boarding, ambitious, he must have a good general culture of regulations, a good CSR network and a certain professional maturity “.

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