Department: Research & Development

Level: Senior University Leadership

Reporting To: Vice-Chancellor

Location: University Campus The Pro Vice-Chancellor – Research will provide strategic leadership and direction for strengthening the university's research ecosystem, promoting innovation, securing competitive research funding and enhancing its national and international research reputation.

The role involves developing a robust research culture, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations, strengthening industry–academia partnerships and driving excellence in research, innovation and knowledge creation.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

- Research Strategy & Leadership: Formulate and implement the university's long-term research vision, policies and strategic development plans.
- Research Funding & Grants: Identify, mobilise and secure research funding from national and international agencies such as ANRF, DST, DBT, ICMR, ICSSR and other funding bodies.
- Research Excellence: Enhance the quality and impact of research publications in reputed Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals.
- Institutional Research Development: Establish and strengthen Research & Development Cells, Centres of Excellence and advanced research facilities.
- Innovation & Patents: Promote intellectual property generation, patent filing, technology transfer, commercialisation and research-driven entrepreneurship.
- Ph.D. & Research Mentoring: Strengthen doctoral research, faculty research capabilities and postdoctoral research initiatives.
- Industry–Academia Collaboration: Develop strategic partnerships with industries, research organisations, IITs, NITs, IISc and reputed national and international universities.
- International Research Collaboration: Facilitate joint research projects, cooperative publications,



international grants and academic exchange programmes.
- Research Governance: Ensure compliance with UGC regulations, research ethics, plagiarism policies and institutional research standards.
- Performance Monitoring: Establish measurable research KPIs and monitor publications, citations, grants, patents, collaborations and research outcomes.
- Research Rankings: Contribute towards improving the university's national and international research standing through measurable institutional outcomes.

Educational qualificaytion:

- Ph.D. in a relevant discipline from a recognised university or institution.
- Strong academic and research credentials with a sustained record of scholarly contributions.
- Postdoctoral or international research exposure will be an added advantage.

Experience Requirement:

- Preferably 15–20+ years of experience in higher education, academic research or institutional research management.
- Substantial experience at the Professor level or equivalent senior academic leadership position.
- Previous leadership experience as Pro Vice-Chancellor – Research, Dean – Research, Director – Research & Development or an equivalent position is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in securing and managing major research grants and externally funded projects.
- Proven experience in Ph.D. supervision, research mentoring and institutional research development.

Other KPI's:

- Growth in quality research publications and citations.
- Increase in external research grants and funding.
- Growth in patents, technology transfers and commercialisation.
- Increase in Ph.D. enrolment and successful completions.
- Establishment of new Centres of Excellence and research facilities.
- Growth in industry and international research collaborations.
- Improvement in institutional research performance and rankings.

📌 Pro Vice Chancellor Research (Unnao)
🏢 Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh
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