Chief Sustainability Officers
Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.
$213,990 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
- 83%
- 17%
- 0%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 2%. Today's estimate: 4%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 18 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 19% | 2.5 work days6.7 h to 1.4 work weeks | 0%Half by May 2028 | |
| Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 19% | 3.1 work days6.7 h to 1.7 work weeks | 0%Half by Aug 2028 | |
| Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.Done daily by most who do it. | 14% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Formulate or implement sustainability campaign or marketing strategies.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.6 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Research environmental sustainability issues, concerns, or stakeholder interests.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 9%Half by Aug 2027 | |
| Develop, or oversee the development of, marketing or outreach media for sustainability projects or events.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 5% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 3.1 work days | 9%Half by Aug 2027 | |
| Identify and evaluate pilot projects or programs to enhance the sustainability research agenda.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 3.5 work days | 3%Half by Nov 2027 | |
| Write project proposals, grant applications, or other documents to pursue funding for environmental initiatives.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 2.5 work days6.7 h to 1.4 work weeks | 0%Half by May 2028 | |
| Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 5 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 15%Half by Jun 2027 | |
| Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 3.1 work days | 3%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Direct sustainability program operations to ensure compliance with environmental or governmental regulations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 4.2 work days | Stays with people | |
| Develop methodologies to assess the viability or success of sustainability initiatives.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1.3 work weeks | 2%Half by May 2028 |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Sustainability Specialists14% now, 92% by 2028
- Climate Change Policy Analysts4% now, 92% by 2028
- Industrial Ecologists1% now, 62% by 2028
- Wind Energy Development Managers6% now, 65% by 2028
- Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health4% now, 57% by 2028
- Urban and Regional Planners7% now, 65% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025). Counts are for the broader BLS group this job sits in.
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