Effective Reporting for Sustainability
Elevate your sustainability leadership and gain career-enhancing skills in reporting to drive sustainable initiatives.
Duration
6 weeksCost
$1,014
Enrolment closes soon! Join by 23 Dec 2024 at 00:01
Learn how to harness sustainable decision-making tools
Sustainability reporting is vital for organisations to help understand their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact to make better business decisions.
On this microcredential, you’ll master the tools essential for impactful decision-making in sustainability and develop the skills to navigate and report effectively on global, regional, and local sustainability initiatives.
In just six weeks, you’ll earn university credit and start applying what you’ve learned to drive real-world sustainable action.
Gain knowledge that is essential for sustainability leaders
On week one of this microcredential, you’ll learn the fundamental principles of sustainability to understand its core concepts better.
Next, you’ll explore the dynamic landscape of sustainability at the global, regional, and local levels, gaining insight into their initiatives and contextual efforts.
With this knowledge, you’ll be equipped to recognise your unique role and potential influence within your organisation or community, empowering you to actively contribute to sustainability movements on a larger scale.
You’ll also learn to identify stakeholders to enable deeper engagement and efficacy in sustainability reporting, fostering stronger relationships and clearer communication.
Understand report development
Next, you’ll discover the intricacies of sustainability reporting to convey sustainable practices effectively.
You’ll learn to employ tools for sustainability reporting to gather and present data accurately. Through this exploration, you’ll learn to develop systems thinking skills and an evidence-based approach to identify the required data for improving sustainability outcomes.
By the end, you’ll understand how to apply your knowledge of reporting methods to drive sustainability effectively.
Learn flexibly online with Deakin University
This microcredential is taught entirely online to give you the flexibility to gain new skills alongside your current commitments.
Guided by the experts at Deakin University, you’ll finish the microcredential with ready-to-use skills to advance your career in sustainability.
How will the skills you learn help in your career?
This microcredential will help you fill the green skills gap to take your sustainability career to the next level.
You’ll learn to utilise your comprehensive understanding of sustainability needs to inform and enhance report development planning.
By understanding how to write a sustainability report you’ll be a valuable resource asset to organisations aiming to enhance sustainable operations
How will you be assessed?
At the end of the microcredential, you’ll develop a detailed sustainability report plan that includes how to improve engagement with sustainability action and ongoing monitoring for continual improvement.
What will you receive?
Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a Credly digital badge and 0.5 credit points at the postgraduate level from Deakin University.
You’ll be able to contribute these credits towards a degree from Deakin University, enabling further academic and career advancement.
What skills will you learn?
- Sustainability reporting
- Sustainable development
- Decision making
- Reporting
What you will achieve
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to...
- Demonstrate an awareness of your own context, organisation, or community in the local, region and international sustainability movement
- Identify the range of stakeholders, both direct and indirect, that have a stake in sustainability reporting to enable a deeper engagement with reporting processes and requirements
- Develop systems thinking skills and an evidence-based approach that enables identification of required data to improve sustainability outcomes in various contexts
- Determine applicability of environmental accounting tools such as life cycle assessment
- Apply knowledge of reporting methods in sustainability
Are you eligible for this microcredential?
This microcredential is designed for anyone who wants to upskill in sustainability reporting. You could already be working in key industries such as accounting services and engineering design or you could aspire to work in these fields.
You don’t need any prior experience but some basic knowledge of reporting is helpful.
Is this microcredential right for you?
This microcredential is for anyone interested in sustainability reporting.
It will be most beneficial for those aspiring to or already working as a sustainability manager, sustainability analyst, or sustainability advisor.
Syllabus
What happens before, during, and after your microcredential
Before learning
You’ll have access to the welcome area to introduce yourself and familiarise yourself with the microcredential structure and course materials.
Course
From 3 Feb 2025
Effective Reporting for Sustainability
Gain crucial skills in sustainability reporting and decision-making to help enhance your organisation’s ESG impact.
6 weeks
After learning
You’ll earn a Credly badge worth 0.5 credit points at the postgraduate level. With these points, you can build towards a degree at Deakin University. Additionally, you’ll receive a digital certificate of completion to showcase your learning to potential employers.
What you will receive
0.5 Deakin Credits at Postgraduate level from AQF
Find out how credits work and where you can use them in our FAQs.
A Digital Badge from Deakin University and Credly
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What is a microcredential?
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Complete online courses led by experts over multiple weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
Career-focused learning by Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
Established
1974Location
Melbourne, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
This microcredential is in collaboration with Wannon Water
Every day, we supply South West Victoria with sustainable water services, while leading our communities towards a healthier, more prosperous future.
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There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
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