Chef(fe) de projet RSE, transition écologique et efficience en santé

The core mission revolves around establishing and delivering the hospital group's multi-year decarbonization roadmap alongside operational and financial performance goals. This entails coordinating carbon-reduction initiatives spanning energy efficiency, sustainable procurement, waste minimization, patient catering, sustainable mobility, and green IT. A focal pillar of this position is the juste prescription (appropriate prescribing) agenda in direct collaboration with the medical establishment commission and financial leadership. You will analyze clinical consumption trends to reduce unnecessary resource use, minimize environmental impacts from high-carbon medical products, and capture operational savings. Additionally, you will design decision-support tools and key performance dashboards measuring avoided emissions, financial gains, and care quality metrics, while facilitating change management workshops and driving operational sustainability committee meetings.

You will develop deep, specialized expertise in healthcare decarbonization, which is rapidly emerging as a critical compliance and ethical priority across European medical institutions. Navigating the carbon accounting of medical devices and pharmaceuticals offers valuable insight into life-cycle health sector impacts. The role provides direct exposure to public health administration, medico-economic evaluation, and the operational complexity of large-scale university hospitals. You will gain mastery in calculating avoided greenhouse gas emissions and cross-referencing carbon reductions with budgetary management. Furthermore, you will hone advanced skills in consensus-building and non-hierarchical leadership by engaging clinical department heads, physicians, pharmacists, and administrative directors around ecological transformation.

The ideal candidate holds a Master's degree in ecological transition, corporate social responsibility, public health, engineering, management, or healthcare administration. Substantial operational experience within healthcare organizations, particularly involving project management or operational transformation, is equally valued alongside academic credentials. Strong competencies in data analysis, synthesis, and key indicator tracking are essential to turn complex environmental metrics into actionable decisions for senior leadership. Prior familiarity with greenhouse gas assessment tools, sustainable purchasing, or medico-economic efficiency represents a distinct advantage. Soft skills are critical: candidates must exhibit high diplomatic tact, pragmatism, intellectual curiosity, and an innate ability to engage clinical teams who face high day-to-day operational pressure.

Highlight your capability to balance environmental ethics with clinical reality and budgetary constraints. Hospital professionals value practical pragmatism over abstract theory; demonstrating how your previous initiatives improved operational efficiency or created financial co-benefits will make your profile stand out immediately. In your cover letter, focus on your change-management methodology when dealing with skeptical or overworked operational stakeholders. Cite concrete examples where you successfully brought together diverse profiles, such as doctors, engineers, and financial analysts, around a shared roadmap. Familiarize yourself with the recent national health ecological transition plans (such as the Plan de transformation écologique en santé) and AP-HP's broader institutional decarbonization ambitions prior to interviews.

The primary focus lies in healthcare-specific scope 3 emissions, specifically targeting health products, medications, and medical disposables, which account for roughly 60 percent of the hospital group's total carbon balance. In parallel, the position targets resource sobriety across broader operational functions, such as hospital food waste reduction, sustainable transport plans for staff and outpatients, optimized energy consumption across heritage hospital buildings, and hazardous waste sorting. Beyond direct technical footprints, the role addresses responsible consumption culture, fostering medical practice alignment with environmental frugality without ever undermining clinical care standards or patient safety.

The steepest challenge involves championing behavioral and operational change within an already constrained and intensive public hospital environment. Healthcare teams face demanding daily workloads, meaning sustainability initiatives must be presented as practical solutions rather than administrative burdens. Another significant hurdle is reconciling clinical quality and financial discipline with environmental ambitions, demanding nuanced negotiations when seeking alternatives for carbon-heavy treatments or single-use medical devices. Reliability and availability of environmental and logistical data within large legacy hospital information systems can also present obstacles when building credible performance indicators.

A typical morning might begin with analyzing clinical consumption and purchasing datasets alongside the finance team to identify carbon-intensive medical equipment trends. You may then draft an executive briefing evaluating the financial and environmental implications of alternative clinical supplies. Midday could involve an on-site visit to clinical units or logistics hubs to review waste separation processes or discuss practical barriers to green commuting directly with nursing and technical staff. In the afternoon, you might chair a workstream of the hospital sustainability committee, facilitating a workshop with senior doctors and pharmacists to agree on concrete milestones for appropriate prescription and medical device lifecycle management.

Given the rapid rise of environmental mandates across the French and European healthcare sectors, expertise at the crossroads of clinical efficiency and carbon reduction is in very high demand. This position positions you as a pioneer in medical sustainability. Career progression pathways within AP-HP include stepping into senior institutional CSR management, hospital administration, or leading regional sustainable procurement and decarbonization programs. External mobility opportunities are equally strong, spanning healthcare consulting, leadership positions in national health agencies, health-tech sustainability advisory, or CSR executive roles within private medical groups.

Internal stakeholders encompass a multifaceted clinical and administrative ecosystem, including the Medical Establishment Commission (CMEL), senior hospital executives, department heads, nursing executives, and hospital pharmacists. You will collaborate intimately on a daily basis with the Directorate of Logistics and Sustainable Development (DALDD), financial directors (DAF), technical services, and human resources. Externally, you will interface with central AP-HP corporate transition teams, institutional environmental partners (such as ADEME or regional health agencies - ARS), peer hospital networks, and sustainable medical supply vendors.