Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Management

Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Management

The Director of Campus Safety and Emergency Management is responsible for providing leadership in maintaining and enhancing safety and security for the entire community on the University of Baltimore campus. Reporting to the Vice President for Administration and Finance (VPAF), the director is an integral part of campus operations and planning. The director oversees campus safety operations and manages UBalt's civilian security ambassadors.

This position regularly coordinates and collaborates with the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) police liaison for UBalt. This position is responsible for providing leadership for UBalt's emergency management program and relevant compliance and preparedness functions, including incident management, the maintenance of emergency operations plan (EOP) and associated annexes, and Clery compliance.

If a conditional offer is accepted, applicants must pass a fingerprinting background check. Candidates selected for employment may also be subject to medical inquires and/or medical examinations to determine ability to perform the job. Employees in this job class may be subject to pre-employment and random drug testing.

Safety and Security Leadership Role

• Serves as the campus leader for overall campus safety and security functions and needs while actively participating in decisions, meetings, committees, and forums.
• Develops, maintains, implements, and communicates policies and procedures related to safety and security. Participates in the campus policy coordinators committee.
• Communicates with executive management, shared governance, the UMB police liaison and with many individuals on campus regarding safety matters while striving to improve campus safety. Represents safety function at community meetings and town halls.
• Communicates and coordinates with the UMB Police Liaison regarding action plans in response to any crime incidents on the UBalt campus.
• Communicates and maintains positive relations with faculty, staff, students and visitors.
• Inspects properties used by campus constituents in conjunction with facilities management to identify potential safety issues and/or hazards. Makes recommendations for corrective actions.
• Directs responses to requests for non-police safety services on the UBalt campus.
• Interacts regularly with the UMB police department regarding policing matters and other aspects of the UBalt-UMB memorandum of understanding (MOU) for policing collaboration to ensure compliance.
• Performs and coordinates performance of others at UBalt to deliver the UBalt responsibilities as outlined in the UBalt-UMB MOU for policing collaboration to ensure UBalt fulfills its responsibilities. This includes ensuring that work in other departments is completed, such as maintenance and testing of video cameras, fire alarms, access control, etc.
• Represents UBalt in fostering an effective and positive affiliation with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), for coordinating with UMB on policing matters, and for ensuring that UMB delivers policing services in accordance with the memorandum of understanding between the two universities.
• Serves as the back-up to the UMB Police Liaison for the following duties: attend committee meetings, facilitate campus decisions related to weather, manage emergency messaging to the campus community (timely warning, emergency notifications), provides safety orientations to students/staff and coordinates VIP events.

Campus Safety Operations

• Recommends campus building access control policies as well as appropriate building hours based upon usage reports.

• Collaborates with Facilities Management and the Office of Technology Services on the performance, effectiveness and team requirements of security-related technology systems, including but not limited to access control, video surveillance, emergency alert and campus scheduling.
• Serves as an intermediate subject matter expert for access control and video surveillance systems, ensuring that team supervisors and ambassadors effectively use both systems and address safety-related support tickets.
• Serves as an intermediate subject matter expert for the service management and reporting platform, ensuring the team can use the system for ongoing reporting needs.
• Monitors safety-related support tickets, assigning or closing as needed.
• Responsible for maintaining and ensuring functionality of automated external defibrillators.
• Performs weekly campus scheduling data reviews to determine staffing capacity needs, deployment and physical security change needs. Directs and confirms adjustments as needed.
• Participates in weekly campus operations meetings.
• Executes approved annual communication plan and recommends changes to Vice President for Administration and Technology. Coordinates applicable content needs with the UMB police public information officer.
• Maintains appropriate team and campus operations documentation.
• Maintains webpage content relevant to safety and…