Associate Director

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Position Title: Associate Director - Coordination & Strategy Management Cell (CSMC)

Location: Chandigarh University, Gharuan Mohali, Punjab

Level: L3 - Specialist / Internal Intelligence Function

Certification: DPC-1 within 6 months of appointment

Role Purpose:

The Associate Director CSMC is the internal intelligence and KPI-control. The role ensures all KPIs and all milestones in real time. This is a dashboard, KPI, data validation and analytical reporting role - not a general coordination or communications role.

Key Responsibilities

Monitor the USADP KPI dashboard for both campuses daily and flag any KPI moving toward AMBER or RED to the Deputy CoS within 24 hours.

Produce the monthly consolidated KPI summary for both campuses by the 3rd of each month.

Assemble KPI data, milestone status and risk-register updates as the evidence base for Chancellor briefing packs.

Maintain the live Phase I milestone dashboard on USADP, tracking all 17 milestones against deadlines and verification criteria.

Compile quantitative data for the DSA&A Annual Report, including SSI results, KPI performance, milestone progress, certification counts and participation rates.

Support the Annual Framework Review Note with year-on-year KPI trends and identification of the three most improved and three most concerning KPIs.

Prepare a monthly one-page sector intelligence input from UGC/NAAC/NEP/MoE updates where these affect KPIs, dashboards governance decisions.

Coordinate data packs, pre-visit notes and post-visit summaries for benchmarking visits, in coordination with Research/NAAC and Communications roles.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years institutional, research, MIS, quality assurance, data analytics or strategic-planning support experience, with proven report production and deadline discipline.

Professional Degree:

PhD / Postgraduate degree in Management, Public Policy, Education Administration, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or equivalent.

MBA desirable.

Specific Technical Skills - Must Have

Advanced MS Excel: Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, COUNTIFS/SUMIFS, conditional formatting, data cleaning, reconciliation and dashboard- ready summaries. KPI monitoring; RAG status tracking; milestone tracking; data validation; source-data interrogation; trend and variance analysis; exception reporting; monthly analytical summary writing; data-pack preparation for reviews.

Specific Technical Skills - Desirable:

Power BI / Tableau / Looker Studio; basic data visualisation; USADP or institutional dashboard systems; AI tools for structured reporting, summarisation and anomaly detection.