Sustainable Fashion: the NEW (wild) Job Titles of the Future
Fashion is one of the biggest polluting industries on the planet and as part of the shift towards becoming more sustainable comes the need for 1) evolving existing business models and creating new sustainable, circular businesses, but also 2) evolving current roles and creating new ones that meet the new needs. This opens the opportunity for new and exciting job descriptions!
We were very inspired this week by a post from Rachel Arthur, Advocacy Lead - Sustainable Fashion at the UN Environment Programme as she was asking for help with some research she’s doing to ideate any interesting, wild, alternative, intricate, nuanced examples of job titles in sustainable fashion right now such as Apurv Gupta, Sustainability Futurist at Kering, or Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy at Patagonia.
The question is not only interesting and inspiring but it is also challenging us in the best of ways to think about the future roles at fashion brands as we need to integrate both nature and human capitals in the picture. Because the roles are so new and there is a need to think outside the box to create exciting new job descriptions, we enrolled the help of ChatGPT to ideate 10 roles for a sustainable fashion brand that are stimulating but also very real and with actual deliverables involved.
Here were the 10 top roles proposed:
30 JOB DESCRIPTION IDEAS FOR SUSTAINABLE FASHION BRANDS
The HR Departments of the future will probably gather the help of ChatGPT too to ideate and develop new job descriptions for the fashion industry. We’re giving it a head start with 30 further ideas in the era of AI:
Eco-Fashion Ethnographer
Sustainable Style Catalyst
Resilience Regenerator
Circular Fashion Alchemist
Green Innovation Enabler
Ethical Couture Artisan
Conservation Couturier
Climate Conscious Creator
Eco-Chic Transformationist
Regenerative Textile Designer
Zero Waste Fashion Strategist
Social Sustainability Advocate
Green Supply Chain Maestro
Conscious Consumer Engagement Specialist
Sustainability Storytelling Maven
Ethical Design Thinking Facilitator
Eco-Friendly Fiber Innovator
Biodiversity Fashion Curator
Circular Materials Scientist
Sustainable Brand Experience Architect
Eco-Inclusive Fashion Strategist
Community Resilience Liaison
Green Technology Integration Specialist
Sustainable Fashion Policy Analyst
Ethical Supply Chain Coordinator
Nature-Inspired Product Development Lead
Resilient Fashion Systems Planner
Conscious Fashion Marketing Guru
Climate Positive Fashion Activist
Environmental Impact Assessment Manager
We will let you imagine what they could be and let us know in the comments if you have any further suggestions!
A Real Life Example: Sol Escobar, Founder of Give Your Best
This great ideation exercise came in the same week as when we released our new Podcast with Sol Escobar, the Founder of Give Your Best, an award-winning 'tech for good' social enterprise offering the first circular platform of its kind where people and brands donate clothes online, so communities living in clothing poverty can shop for free with the agency and dignity they deserve.
Sol and her team have been redefining how we can tackle fashion waste in the UK through a new circular platform that also drives social change and supports a very big community suffering from clothing poverty. An estimated 5.5 million adults (a staggering 13% of the population) are indeed currently unable to afford the clothes that make everyday life – such as applying for interviews, going to work, school, or sometimes even just leaving the house – possible.
It was too tempting not to ask ChatGPT to ideate some ideas for a new job title for Sol and here were some suggestions. We will let you choose which one you prefer! We’ve got a sweet spot for 8!
Circular Couture Equality Pioneer
Sustainable Style Empowerment Visionary
Circular Fashion Inclusivity Strategist
Ethical Apparel Accessibility Trailblazer
Fashion Equality Entrepreneur
Circular Wardrobe Revolutionist
Sustainable Fashion Equality Architect
Circular Couture Social Impact Innovator
Ethical Fashion Circularity Champion
Inclusive Circular Fashion Catalyst
