TITLE: Safety Officer/Security Monitor
TYPE: Non-Union Cycle II
SALARY: Per the Terms of Employment for Non-Union Personnel, Cycle II
WORK SCHEDULE: Monday - Friday, seven (7) hours/day, School Year (180 days), may work up to ten (10) additional days at the Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services' discretion
REPORTS TO: Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services/Building Principal

 

OBJECTIVE: Promoting attitudes of student responsibility; assists with the safety of students and staff and the security of the facilities; assists in providing protection for all students, staff, and property.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Greets, registers, and screens visitors at the school entrance. Assigns visitor pass and directs them to the proper destination.
2. Patrols and monitors assigned areas of the school buildings, grounds and parking lots to deter, detect, and report violations of the school policy and law.
3. Detects, investigates, and reports unauthorized or suspicious persons, vehicles and activities to building administration.
4. Assists with monitoring and directing student movement throughout assigned school and properties.
5. Notifies the administrative staff or other appropriate authorities of security or emergency situations.
6. Operates metal detectors and conducts searches when directed to do so.
7. Assists with fire drills, lockdown drills, and other emergency preparedness drills as necessary.
8. Attend and successfully complete all staff development training as required by the Student Support Services Office.
9. Aids in monitoring and ensuring smooth and safe traffic flow at arrival and dismissal.
10. Remain highly visible at all times and serve as a resource for all students, staff, and visitors.
11. Works closely with the school resource officers (SRO) and the building custodians on safety and security matters.
12. Aids in monitoring the security cameras and ensuring that the exterior doors of the buildings are secure.
13. Depending on assignment will assist in security related issues and activities after school hours for events such as open house and sporting events.
14. Performs other related duties as assigned by the Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services and the building Principal.

 

REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education, Training, and Experience
1. Minimum of a High School Diploma/College Degree, preferred.
2. Must possess a valid motor vehicle operator's license
3. One year or more of progressively responsible experience in a security-related field.
4. AED/CPR Certified preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills
1. Demonstrates excellent integrity and good moral character and initiative.
2. Excellent time management and organizational skills, including the ability to triage/prioritize competing needs.
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the proven ability to effectively communicate with students and families from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
4. Proven ability to relate to and work with a variety of constituencies including but not limited to: administrators, teachers, other school staff members, parents/guardians/caregivers, students, visitors, and the community.

ADA and Minimum Qualifications to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, adding machines, etc. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Must be able to stand, crouch and bend over for a long period of time at intervals throughout the day.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, schedules, manuals, invoices, requisitions, menus, recipes, journals, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, procedures, charts, surveys, articles, bid specifications, brochures, news releases, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal, accounting and marketing terminology.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra and geometry.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words) and hear (perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone or radio.