Energy Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR)
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Pricing
Individual Badges: $1,000 | Packaged Badges(3): $2,700
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Schedule
Check back Fall 2025 schedule updates.
Executive Summary
The energy industry is undergoing a transition as it addresses its role in meeting the continued growth in demand for energy while ensuring it is cost competitive, sustainable, and its use is environmentally safe. This is increasing scrutiny on how energy companies manage their Energy Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) performance. UH Energy, at the University of Houston, is offering the ECSR in Energy Program aimed at helping train individuals and provide skills and tools towards developing, implementing and managing the ECSR program for energy companies.
Whether you are just starting to address these types of issues or you have been at it for a while, this program can equip energy professionals – current and future – with the necessary skills to address this changing – and challenging – landscape over the coming years. The program focuses on developing (or enhancing) your ECSR framework, managing of stakeholders and integrating ECSR into your enterprise–wide risk management practices.
Designed and presented by leaders from industry and accomplished faculty from the University of Houston, the program provides the necessary frameworks and skillsets through a structured series of micro-credentials or “badges.” Instruction for each badge consists of 6, 2.5-hour online sessions and built with the rigor of an academic program, including evaluations. The participants gain hands-on experience with real world examples and case studies, and must meet the academic standards in order to be awarded the badges.
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Why This Program?
The energy industry faces challenges in the ECSR area that include increased public expectations and actions amidst a global pandemic, growing environmental and climate actions, worker and community health and safety, and acknowledgement of basic human rights for all, and more principled corporate governance.
For this reason, UH Energy, at the University of Houston, has developed the ECSR Program, to equip current and aspiring professionals in the energy industry to further their skills in this ever-evolving field. Industry experts who have designed, developed and managed ECSR programs over the past couple of decades will share insights, tools and expertise, while allowing for opportunities to customize concepts, models, frameworks and management systems to fit your own business needs.
Who should attend?
This series of micro-credentials is designed for current energy industry professionals and those aspiring to join the energy industry’s ECSR workforce. It will enhance your capabilities through engaging, thought-provoking insights, together with opportunities to enhance skills critical for success in ECSR. The field continues to evolve rapidly in the highly competitive energy market place, and it requires cutting-edge, state-of-the-art training.
Pricing
INDIVIDUAL BADGE PRICE:
$1,000
EACHBadge Bundle (Badges 1, 2 & 3, purchased together):
$2,700
ALL 3Schedule
Please check back Fall 2025 for schedule updates. Click here to sign up for updates on this and other UH Energy Micro-credentialing Programs: SUBSCRIBE
Credentialing Overview
Instruction for each badge consists of 6, 2.5-hour online sessions. Micro-credential badges are awarded for each module, three in total, for the ECSR Program. The earned badges are a permanent addition to your skillset and resume. After successfully completing the program, you can incorporate micro-credential badges from UH into your LinkedIn profile and resume.
Framework Development Badge
The world is undergoing an energy transition with a focus on providing a growing global population with affordable, reliable and sustainable energy. This is placing increasing importance on how energy businesses’ address their ECSR performance. Participants in this badge will get training in developing a framework for managing ECSR in their organization, and a roadmap for its implementation. This includes:
- Gain an understanding of the various dimensions of ECSR
- Learn how energy companies in different segments of the industry approach ECSR:
- Areas of focus
- Reporting of ECSR performance
- Integration of ECSR into company operations
- Skills and tools required to manage ECSR
- Industry practitioners and subject matter experts will share their knowledge through case studies on differing levels of engagement in ECSR.
- Participants will work through examples and case studies:
- Utilizing an ECSR Framework participants will develop the ECSR plan for their company
Stakeholder Management Badge
Building trusting relationships with key business stakeholders is a key cornerstone of any successful ECSR/Business program. This badge covers aspects of how to build, maintain and manage stakeholder relationships in the energy industry. This includes:
- Identifying key internal and external stakeholders
- Assessment of stakeholder needs
- Development of stakeholder strategies and their implementation including engagement, communication, monitoring & reviewing of progress and impact
- Development of engagement capabilities of operations and other staff interfacing with stakeholders
- Develop a companywide stakeholder management process for ECSR
Industry practitioners and subject matter experts will share their knowledge about Stakeholder Management through case studies. Participants will work through examples and case studies to develop their Stakeholder Management capabilities through established frameworks and strategies.
Managing ECSR Risk Badge
Managing Risk is an important and integral part of managing any energy business. Entities track the major risks to the business and report on actions taken to manage them as part of their Annual Report. Participants in this badge will develop a comprehensive understanding, of how to build a risk management process as it pertains to ECSR programs in the energy industry and they will learn tools and techniques to facilitate this process.
- Identifying ECSR risks in the energy industry
- Established Frameworks for assessment of ECSR risk
- Management plans for ECSR Risk
- Incorporating ECSR risks assessment into business and company risk and their monitoring and evaluation
Industry practitioners and subject matter experts will share their knowledge about ECSR risk through case studies. Participants will work through examples and case studies using ECSR Risk Management tools.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing the ECSR Badges, participants will understand and be skilled at:
- The evolution of ECSR and its importance to business
- ECSR core competencies, skills and responsibilities that are essential for developing your ECSR framework, strategy and management buy-in.
- Building an ECSR framework for your company
- Building a stakeholder management process and incorporating it in your existing business processes.
- Building an ECSR risk management process and integrating it into the company risk management process.
Credentialing Program Open To:
Either:
- Industry Professionals: Applicants from within the energy sector, with experience in ECSR, Sustainability, HSE, Communications, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Community Relations, etc.
- Aspiring Energy Industry Professionals: Anyone who aspires to work in the energy industry or is already in it but in a different discipline, and who wishes to build skills and competencies in the ECSR area.