Key Roles & Responsibilities :

1. HOD Activities :

- Overall administrative control of the Fashion Design Dept.
- Faculty Management
- Develop skills of faculties
- Pattern Making Lab/Textile Lab management
- Taking charge of conducting seminars, fests, cultural fests, fashion shows, workshops, Industry visits or any other event relating to the institution.

2. Academic & Curriculum Management :

a. Curriculum Design & Update:

- Keep the fashion design syllabus current with industry trends, textile innovations, CAD tools, and sustainable fashion practices
- Fashion Design HOD will be responsible for conducting classes for UG & PG Fashion Design Management subjects in MDES/BDES/BSc-FAD.
- Creating curriculum.
- Design and fine-tune the course modules and lesson plans
- Assisting Principal in preparing semester plans/ lessons for all the UG / PG Batches.
- Finishing course syllabus on schedule
- Acheiving 100% results

b. Teaching & Learning Quality: Ensure high standards of classroom instruction, pattern-making, draping, fashion illustration, and garment construction, fashion design across all semesters.

c. Faculty Workload & Performance: Allocate subjects, mentor junior design faculty, conduct peer reviews

- Monitor faculty development or training programs.

d. Academic Audits: Maintain compliance with university or board accreditation standards, internal exams, review panels, and semester schedules

3. Students Development & Placement :





- Portfolio & Critique Quality: Oversee student jury reviews, design collections, graduation fashion shows, and exhibition readiness.
- Industry Internships & Projects: Secure live industry projects, mentorships, and mandatory internships with apparel houses, designers or export firms.
- Prepare practice papers and industry visits
- Placements & Career Readiness: Drive portfolio workshops, resume-building, mock interviews, and coordinate with the placement cell to maximize student placements or entrepreneurial ventures.
- Student Retention & Discipline: Monitor attendance, address academic or studio grievances
- Foster a creative, collaborative departmental culture.

4. Events & Fashion Shows: Lead the conceptualization and execution of annual departmental fashion shows, craft documentation projects, and design competitions.

Preferred candidate profile :

Qualification : Female M.Tech in Textile Engineering/ Master of Fashion Management from NIFT/NID only.

Experience : 8-10 yrs at a reputed fashion design college.

At present working as HOD-Fashion Designing for a minimum period of 1 year with a proven track record.Good networking for hiring fashion design faculties.

Soft Skills : Good Team Management Skills, Taking Ownership, Good Communication & Co-ordination Skills, Positive Attitude, Self Confident, Positive Networking skills, Good Coaching Skills, Decision Making skills, Leadership skills.

📌 HOD - Fashion & Apparel Design (Bengaluru)
🏢 Vogue Institute of Art and Design
📍 Bengaluru