Recruitment Manager

• Job Opening – Manager, Academic Recruitment
• Position
• Manager – Academic Recruitment
• About the Role

Chandigarh University is seeking an experienced and proactive Manager – Academic Recruitment to lead faculty and academic leadership hiring across Schools, Departments, and Research Centres. The role will be responsible for developing talent pipelines, attracting high-calibre academicians, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring timely closure of academic positions in alignment with the Universitys growth and quality objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for academic positions including Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, Professors, Directors, Deans, Researchers, and other academic leadership roles.
• Develop sourcing strategies to attract high-quality faculty members from premier universities, institutes, research organizations, and industry.
• Build and maintain a robust academic talent pipeline across disciplines.
• Partner with Vice Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellor, Deans, Directors, and academic leaders to understand hiring requirements and workforce plans.
• Manage candidate sourcing through academic networks, professional associations, conferences, research databases, referrals, and recruitment platforms.
• Conduct preliminary assessments and coordinate academic evaluation processes.
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Track recruitment metrics, hiring timelines, offer-to-join ratios, and quality-of-hire indicators.
• Support employer branding initiatives to position the University as an employer of choice for academicians and researchers.
• Maintain recruitment records, dashboards, reports, and talent databases.
• Ensure compliance with University policies and applicable regulatory requirements.

Eligibility

• MBA / PGDM in Human Resources or related discipline.
• Minimum 6–10 years of recruitment experience.
• Prior experience in academic recruitment for Universities or Higher Education Institutions is mandatory.
• Proven experience in hiring faculty and academic leadership positions.
• Strong understanding of higher education structures, academic designations, and faculty qualification requirements.
• Experience in stakeholder management with senior academic leaders.

Key Skills

• Academic Recruitment
• Faculty Hiring
• Leadership Hiring
• Talent Mapping & Market Research
• Stakeholder Management
• Sourcing & Talent Acquisition
• Employer Branding
• Recruitment Analytics
• Negotiation & Offer Management
• Relationship Building

Preferred Profile

• Experience in recruiting for multidisciplinary universities.
• Exposure to hiring across Engineering, Management, Commerce, Law, Computing, Applied Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Research functions.
• Strong professional network within academia and higher education.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to shape the academic talent landscape of a rapidly growing university.
• Direct engagement with senior academic leadership and strategic hiring initiatives.
• Dynamic, growth-oriented, and innovation-driven work environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to institutional excellence through world-class faculty acquisition.