Security Personnel

Security I Personnel Job Details

• Position Type:
  Full-Time
• Salary: $42,369.60 to $43,428 Per Year

Position

Purpose:

This position provides support and day‑to‑day assistance to the Assistant Principals in the administration of building security and monitoring and resolving student behavior at the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational High School. This position has access to confidential information concerning visitors, students, and employees.

Essential Functions:

• Monitor building access and activity to ensure student safety by monitoring building access and activities and student behavior.
• De‑escalate student‑to‑student conflict.
• Assist in or performs student search, when applicable.
• Assist teachers with student behavior on an as‑needed basis.
• Patrol interior points of entrance/exit, passageways, common areas including restrooms, instructional areas, gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria and assembly areas as assigned.
• Oversee building access for students and employees using registration (sign‑in/out),  assignment, controlled access areas and passage routes throughout the facility.
• Provide directions as needed and information regarding visitation policies and protocols to all authorized vendors and/or external contractors.
• Monitor student behavior during and between assigned periods and at student events (e.g., lunch room, classrooms, detention, dances, home games, 'time outs,' etc.) to ensure student compliance with established guidelines, maintaining a safe and positive learning environment, and secure facility.
• Control and diffuse disturbances before, during and after school hours, within school buildings, upon school grounds and along access and egress routes.
• Assist school resource (police) officers, local police and fire safety officers as necessary.
• Assist facility personnel and outside security staff.
• Monitor security video surveillance or security software systems.
• May transport students to crisis center or work with crisis counsels.
• Maintain logs, prepare reports and/or other documentation related to security and/or safety.
• Investigate student conflicts and conduct student mediation or other restorative actions.
• Restrain students in accordance with appropriate restraint techniques.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Recommended

Minimum Qualifications:

Education, Training and

Experience:

High School Degree required or GED. Degree in related field, preferred. Experience working with youth in an organized setting with school safety, law enforcement, or security work experience preferred.

Knowledge: Proficient in computer skills, Microsoft Suite, public address systems, and general office equipment. General knowledge about security procedures in a school setting.

Ability: Ability to maintain confidential information concerning employees and students. Must demonstrate good judgment and work independently. Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries with students. Ability to plan, organize and collaborate with others, ability to communicate effectively, ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all school employees, students, teachers, parents, and vendors, ability to recognize school‑wide priorities and work cooperatively to support their accomplishment, ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deal effectively with interruptions, occasionally under time pressure, ability to operate a computer and be proficient in the use of MS Office applications and various employee and student database systems.

Skills: Excellent customer service, organization skills and time‑management skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and good computer skills.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position is frequently required to sit, communicate, or hear; occasionally required to walk, must be able to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls;

and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift…