Function: Student Conduct & Discipline Leadership

Department: Discipline & Student Conduct Cell

Location: Lucknow Campus

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and decisive Associate Dean – Discipline to lead student discipline, conduct management, grievance handling, and institutional conduct systems. The role requires strong judgement, fairness, confidentiality, de-escalation skills, and a firm commitment to natural justice and student dignity.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the Student Discipline Investigation – 24-48-10 Case Handling Framework and ensure timely case resolution.
- Govern Disciplinary Committees while ensuring natural justice, procedural fairness, and confidentiality.
- Monitor grievance SLAs, breach escalations, and the Zero Unacknowledged Grievance protocol.
- Coordinate with the Student Grievance Redressal Committee (SGRC) on student complaints and resolutions.
- Lead anti-ragging prevention, awareness, investigation, and enforcement initiatives.
- Handle sensitive disciplinary matters, evidence assessment, student interactions, and crisis situations.
- Manage parent communication and summoning in responsible disciplinary incidents.
- Maintain accurate case records, documentation, compliance reports, and ensure NAAC audit readiness.
- Work closely with Student Welfare, Hostel,



Security, Counselling, Academic and Administrative teams for effective case resolution.

Eligibility – Two Routes

Route A – Armed Forces

- Retired Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army, Navy, or Air Force with minimum 20 years of service.
- Substantial experience in command, personnel administration, discipline, inquiry, or welfare responsibilities.
- Bachelor's degree is essential; postgraduate qualification desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to work constructively with university students.

Route B – University Academic

- Current or former Professor/Associate Professor with minimum 15 years of higher-education experience.
- At least 5 years of direct leadership experience in student discipline, student welfare, residential student affairs, or comparable conduct systems.
- Purely teaching/research-oriented profiles without student affairs/discipline leadership experience will not be considered.

Desirable – Both Routes

- LLB or formal training in inquiry procedures preferred due to the quasi-judicial nature of the role.

Strong understanding of natural justice, evidence handling, confidentiality, de-escalation, crisis management, and student conduct governance.

📌 Associate Dean - Discipline (Unnao)
🏢 Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh
📍 Unnao