Director of Protective Services

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Management Medora, ND, US

5 days ago Requisition

The Director of Protective Services will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library’s comprehensive protective services program — ensuring the safety and security of visitors, staff, volunteers, artifacts, collections, distinguished guests, and campus infrastructure.

This role serves as the senior leader responsible for protective services strategy, emergency preparedness, risk management, physical security systems, investigations, and operational resilience across the Library campus and related properties.

This position is charged with protecting people, places, collections, and reputation — from daily visitor operations to highly complex events involving presidents, heads of state, dignitaries, donors, public officials, and nationally recognized guests.

The Director serves as the organization’s senior security and protective operations leader and works closely with executive leadership, operations, facilities, visitor experience, exhibitions, events, information technology, and external agencies to ensure a secure, welcoming, and mission‑aligned environment.

The ideal candidate is a calm, strategic, and highly collaborative leader with experience operating in complex public‑facing environments where security, executive presence, logistics, visitor experience, and interagency coordination must work seamlessly together.

This is more than a leadership role—it's an opportunity to lead a world‑class protective services program at one of America’s most ambitious cultural institutions. If you are ready to make a lasting impact while helping shape a legacy that will inspire generations, we encourage you to apply.

• Strategic Leadership & Department Development:
  Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and evolve complex protective services operations, including organizational design, staffing models, budgeting, policy development, and long‑range planning
• Emergency Preparedness & Incident Command:
  Deep experience leading emergency planning, crisis response, business continuity, and coordination with law enforcement, fire, EMS, emergency management, and federal agencies including the United States Secret Service
• Security Operations & Infrastructure:
  Advanced understanding of integrated security technologies and operational systems, including CCTV/AI analytics, access control, intrusion detection, communications systems, dispatch, credentialing, and control room operations
• Executive Protection & High‑Profile Event Security:
  Experience coordinating protective operations for distinguished visitors, elected officials, dignitaries, executives, donors, public figures, and nationally significant events in partnership with federal, state, and local agencies
• Multi‑Site & Special Event Operations:
  Ability to oversee protective services planning and operational coordination across multiple venues, temporary events, traveling programs, and offsite institutional engagements throughout the United States
• Executive Presence & Interagency Coordination:
  Proven ability to operate effectively with senior executives, elected officials, law enforcement leadership, federal agencies, and community stakeholders
• Leadership & Team Development:
  Strong leadership capability with experience recruiting, mentoring, developing, and holding accountable both in‑house and contracted protective services personnel
• Crisis Management & Decision Making:
  Ability to remain composed under pressure, manage rapidly evolving incidents, and make sound operational decisions in high‑stakes environments
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation:
  Experience identifying vulnerabilities and implementing layered security strategies across physical, operational, reputational, and event‑related risks
• Policy & Compliance Management:
  Experience developing and implementing policies, SOPs, emergency response plans, investigations protocols, and compliance frameworks…