Security (Full-Time)

POSITION TITLE: Security Officer
REPORTS TO: Director of Operations / Building Principal
Security Lead
LEVEL: Educational Support Personnel
QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Experience or Training

High school diploma or equivalent; 20 Hr Security training; evidence of security experience

Preferred Experience or Training

PERC Card; post high school education

Special Requirements of the Position

Work year consists of one hundred eighty-five (185) days, between four (4) and eight (8) hours per day, excluding lunch. Days and hours of work are administratively assigned.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain the confidentiality of all school-related matters
• Conduct school related business in a professional manner
• Maintain a professional attitude while disciplining students
• Work well under pressure
• Maintain a strong attendance record
• Gain understanding of school procedures
• Provide general hall supervision to ensure appropriate student behavior
• Check all students/adults in the halls for proper identification (ID, Visitor's Pass, etc.)
• Circulate throughout assigned area, securing hallways, stairways, washrooms, and locker rooms
• Intervene to de-escalate negative behavior
• Check that all exterior doors are locked
• Provide administrator and teacher assistance
• Escort students from classrooms to deans', guidance counselors', and police counselors' offices
• Respond to emergency call buttons, fire alarms, or teacher requests as needed
• Provide study hall management
• Record attendance in logs and submit scantron slips to data processing
• Monitor appropriate student behavior conducive to a study environment
• Provide cafeteria direction
• Check student Ids for appropriate lunch period attendance
• Regulate lunch line, ensuring continual movement and proper behavior
• Circulate throughout student cafeteria during lunch hours, monitoring appropriate student behavior and maintaining a clean area
• Provide exterior campus surveillance
• Lock and unlock parking lot gates according to schedule
• Circulate in school van throughout parking lots, regulating vehicle traffic and securing safety of foot traffic at beginning and ending of school day
• Monitor student truancy during the school day
• Secure safety of staff and student cars parked in lots throughout the school day
• Assist with student embarkation at bus stop at close of school day
• Ensure that all exterior building doors are locked
• Provide supervision at extracurricular events
• Assist with services of the school store and ID center
• Photograph and produce student and faculty IDs
• Other related duties as required or assigned by administration