Leadership Role- Research, Benchmarking & NAAC (Rupnagar)

Role Purpose: This Leadership Role 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 3 years institutional, research, MIS, quality assurance, data analytics or strategic-planning support experience, with proven report production and deadline discipline.
- MBA Data Science, Education Administration, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or equivalent.
- 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.
- Power BI / Tableau / Looker Studio; basic data visualization; USADP or institutional dashboard systems; AI tools for structured reporting, summarization and anomaly detection. Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.in/job/4n6qbd