Director, Campus Security

ABOUT CHARLES

E. SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES

At Charles

E. Smith Life Communities (CESLC), we have team members who live our mission every day to provide quality health care and meaningful life experiences to older adults. CESLC provides a wide variety of career opportunities on our beautiful 38-acre campus located in Rockville Maryland. A career at CESLC offers an exciting opportunity to join a nonprofit faith-based organization where our team of over 800members represent a very wide range of cultural backgrounds, ethnicities and faiths.

This position is base at Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, located 6121 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD 20852.

Reporting to the President/CEO, the Director, Campus Security is responsible for promoting the protection of the life and safety of residents, visitors and associates at the residences, buildings and grounds of Charles

E. Smith Life Communities (CESLC). The Director will serve as an expert security advisor, liaison, training coordinator to provide direction and maintain oversight for the development, organization, implementation and monitoring of CESLC’s security operations and program; to include providing guidance and strategic direction to ensure the safety and security of the organization. The Director will serve as a liaison during crisis response and mitigation efforts, assisting local incident commanders and/or serve as an incident commander during crisis response and mitigation efforts if requested and/or required.

The Director will coordinate with federal, state, local law enforcement and other stakeholders (as necessary), on safety and security matters.

• Conduct regular patrols (on foot and in automobile) of the CESLC campus to monitor for security concerns and irregularities.
• Work collaboratively with executive directors and other associates to develop and conduct security training sessions for associates. This includes publishing a security training calendar for CESLC. Conduct training activities and provide education to associates on security policies and best practices.
• Chair the campus security committee
• Design, develop, implement and manage security policies, procedures and recommendations.
• Identify, manage and supervise qualified vendors to provide safety and security services (e.g., electronic and physical security) in alignment with security/threat assessments, operational capabilities, and organizational key results. Review the daily activity report (DAR) posted by the security vendor and respond appropriately.
• Review daily reports from the Secure Community Network (SCN) and other sources to understand the overall security environment (local, regional and state).
• Formulate annual budget and monitor and manage actual expenses to budget.
• Serve as point-of-contact for security concerns to federal, state and local law enforcement and emergency management agencies, as well as other stakeholder organizations (e.g., Secure Community Network (SCN), Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Congregation B’nai Israel, Jewish campus organizations, etc.)
• Respond to onsite emergencies (on call 24/7).

• Work collaboratively with Associates to:
  • identify and secure grant funding opportunities and awards for safety and security planning, training and enhancements
  • to maintain CESLC’s emergency communications systems (i.e., BluePoint, AMG Alerts®) to ensure timely notifications to appropriate audiences.
• Evaluate resources needed for physical security (e.g., alarms/sensors, video surveillance, control systems, physical barriers, motion detectors, software, etc.)
• Plan, coordinate and conduct threat, security and resilience inspection/assessment activities, based upon…