Forward planning of jobs and skills

This FMWJS approach consists of 2 simultaneous actions:

• a revision of the mapping of jobs and functions at Météo-France aimed at adapting the mapping of jobs to the reality of the future roles exercised within the establishment, to facilitate HR support and personnel management;
• identification of the quantitative (in terms of headcount) and qualitative (in terms of professions) changes planned for each family of professions, making it possible to present an HR support and training action plan. In particular, this involves preparing training plans for the coming years and supporting retraining through the construction of career paths adapted to the needs of the establishment and the wishes of staff.

The work completed was carried out for the 8 main job families: Aeronautics, Commerce, Upstream Forecasting and Safety Advice, Meteorological and Climatic Services, Administrative Functions, IT, Observation, Higher Education and Research.

A presentation of the approach was made at the professional mobility forum in the autumn of 2019 and the identified training needs were taken into account when developing the institution's three-year training plan.

The new jobs and skills reference framework will thus be finalised and implemented in 2020.

A total of 1,750 staff, or 63% of the institution's workforce, were trained for a total volume of 12,315 training days. The average duration of training is 4.5 days per officer.

The actions mainly concerned support for internal promotion, distance learning and health and safety at work. The forthcoming commissioning of the new supercomputer also required planning to prepare for the use of this new equipment.

As part of the actions aimed at driving change and supporting its employees in these changes, Météo-France organised a professional mobility forum on 14 October 2019 on its site at the Météopole in Toulouse. This day, which brought together more than 280 staff members, was aimed at supporting staff in changing professions and supporting a dynamic of professional mobility within the establishment. The day was devoted to providing personalised, concrete, detailed answers to staff questions regarding their professional future by giving as much information as possible on the positions to be filled, the procedures and dedicated HR support.

At the 4^th interministerial committee on public transformation, the Prime Minister was able to exchange views with six winners of the Fonds pour la transformation de l'action publique (FTAP - Public Action Transformation Fund), including Virginie Schwarz, CEO of Météo-France. As a reminder, this fund was created by the government to help and support administrations in their modernisation actions. With a budget of 9 million euros, the project run by Météo-France includes the development of expert systems aimed at developing innovative decision support tools for weather crisis management. FTAP's support has enabled the establishment to install an AI Lab and recruit 6 experts specialising in Machine Learning. This has, for example, led to a cross-referencing of fire response data and meteorological data with the aim of providing predictive information for the activity of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Services (SDIS). The FTAP also makes it possible to finance individual and collective support for agents whose job is transformed through training and collaborative tools.

Météo-France's administrative and logistical functions have evolved in 2019. This is part of the institution's transformation process, which involves rethinking its operation and organisation, including administrative and logistical areas.

To achieve these objectives, the institution has chosen, on the one hand, to centralise a significant part of its administrative and logistical functions and, on the other, to modernise its information systems.

Thus, in 2019, functions that are currently dispersed throughout the institution were brought together for metropolitan France in the six Shared Services Centres (SSCs): HR assistance for staff; permanent training; execution of expenditure; implementation of revenue; travel; purchases.

The first stage of the change in the geographical scope of Météo-France's interregional directorates took place on 1 October 2019. This is an important development that allows the establishment to better meet the needs of its institutional partners, by making the regions of Météo-France's interregional directorates coincide with the Defence and Security Zones (DSZs). The first step was completed on 1 October 2019. The Centre-Val de Loire region and the former Champagne-Ardenne region thus joined Interregional Directorate West and Interregional Directorate North East. It will be followed by a second stage, in 2021, which will concern the former Haute-Normandie and Burgundy regions.

As part of its overall transformation, the establishment had envisaged a project to develop its organisation in terms of location and services in the mountains.

The initially planned project having raised various concerns, Virginie Schwarz, CEO of Météo-France, wished to relaunch the dialogue with public authorities, local authorities, mountain professionals and agents, in order to share, while respecting everyone’s role, a detailed analysis of the issues, needs and priorities of the regions in terms of meteorological services in the Alps and Pyrenees. This work is to be translated into a new organisation in the autumn of 2020.

In 2019, the external monitoring audit conducted by AFNOR concluded that Météo-France's ISO 9001:2015 certification should be maintained. In particular, the auditors highlighted the maturity of the Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2015 and an organisation that makes practices at all levels safe and reliable.

Météo-France has continued its exemplary eco-responsible approach by defining and implementing an action plan based on the Ministry's exemplary administration plan and representative of Météo-France's activity, a plan that will be updated in 2020.

In 2019, particularly noteworthy are the results for:

• the decrease in Greenhouse Gases (GHGs): 6.5% or 650 tonnes of CO₂ avoided (mainly through reductions in the consumption of energy fluids - electricity, gas and heating oil). CO₂ emissions decreased by 1,765 tonnes between 2016 and the end of 2019;
• lower energy consumption: 4.7%. This downward trend has been continuing since 2012, with the ultimate goal of achieving a 30% reduction in consumption since 2012;
• reduction in water consumption: 9.4%. This decline is 26% over the period 2012-2019.

Among the key actions carried out in 2019, we can mention major insulation work on the facades of the North-East Interregional Meteorological Centre (CMIR) building and the continued renovation, by sections of gutters, of the fluid networks at the Météopole in Toulouse. The replacement of lighting with low-energy units at the Lannion Space Meteorology Centre, in French Guiana at the Antilles-Guyana Interregional Directorate, at CMIR Nord and in Toulouse also continued. Concerning waste sorting and recycling, contracts or internal organisations have been set up by the Ile-de-France, North, North-East, Centre-East, South-East and Polynesia interregional departments. The CMIR North-East has, as of 2019, eliminated plastic cups and chosen to replace them with individual glass cups. As for bio-waste, the service provider providing collective catering in Toulouse has set up a partnership with an association that recycles the restaurant's food waste for composting.

Claire Doubremelle, Deputy Director of Research, was appointed in 2019 as the adviser for professional equality between women and men within the establishment, thus confirming Météo-France's determination to make a firm commitment to real professional equality between women and men, a performance lever and factor of cohesion and improvement in the quality of life at work for all staff.

To carry out her mission, Claire Doubremelle relied on a dedicated Working Group (WG) composed of members from several of the institution's directorates, as well as staff representatives. This WG met three times in 2019.

The gender equality adviser is part of the network of equality advisers of the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition (MTES) and the Ministry of Regional Cohesion and Relations with Regional Communities (MCTRCT), which enables the sharing of current events and exchanges on current projects. Several meetings of this network are organised each year, led by the senior official in charge of equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination at the MTES and MCTRCT.

In 2019, the group's work led to the publication of a 2020 strategy and action plan for gender equality in the workplace at Météo-France. Among the priorities: the implementation of an equality policy, training for all staff, promoting conditions for equal access to jobs and professional responsibilities, and strengthening the prevention of and fight against sexual violence, harassment and sexist behaviour. A more comprehensive action plan consistent with that of the Ministry of Ecology is being developed.