The CoEER has a board and the Deputy Vice Chancellor is the chairman and the Director is the Executive Officer. The composition of the board is made up of members of senior staff from the faculty of Natural Resources, Built Environment, Engineering, Humanities and the Sciences. 

The board’s main function, among its duties, is to provide strategic direction and oversight on strategy implementation in the best interest of the University. 

The key responsibilities are to consider and approve annual strategic and implementation plans, identify initiatives and resources to implement the strategy, resource the strategy and monitor implementation, develop standing committees to address specific duties, and account for the work of its standing committees, and assign, oversee, and monitor the work of the Research Working Group (RWG).