Director of School Safety and Security

3 weeks ago

Allentown, United States Allentown School District Full time

JobID: 2733

**Position Type**:
Administration/Director**Date Posted**:
4/16/2024**Location**:
Administration Center - Allentown, PA**Director of School Safety and Security**
**Salary Range: $109,913 - $153,878**

**Qualifications**:

- Hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. Masters preferred.
- Have extensive work with law enforcement agencies.
- Be able to work with police and safety personnel as well as school district staff.
- Hold and maintain a valid driver’s license with no serious violations.
- Proficient with technology and use of safety systems and software (Navigate, video surveillance, etc.)
- Have excellent integrity and demonstrate good moral character and initiative.
- Exhibit a personality that demonstrates interpersonal skills to relate well with students, staff, administration, parents and the community.
- Satisfactory work record & criminal/child abuse clearances (Acts 34, 114, and 151)
- Such additional or alternatives to the above qualifications as the board or superintendents may determine appropriate and acceptable

Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**Summary**: The Director of School Safety will maintain a safe and secure environment for students, employees and visitors by helping to develop, establish and enforce safety and security policies, access control procedures, accident prevention efforts, support risk management efforts, fire, safety, emergency management, and asset protection.The Director of School Safety performs tasks in developing, implementing, and managing programs designed to effectively address security and school safety needs. Employee is responsible for coordinating a comprehensive school safety program, which includes working with local law enforcement agencies. Employee works extensively with the Director of Operations, school administrators and ASD community on all areas of school safety. Work also involves implementing training programs pertaining to matters of safety and security for site-based administrators and teachers.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Coordinates a comprehensive security/school safety program, policies and procedures by studying organization operations and schedules; establishing internal controls; conducting inspections as appropriate; reporting potential hazards to appropriate departments; creating and updating ASD School Board policies and Standard Operating Procedures, safety and security manuals
- Coordinates school safety compliance with federal, state and local regulations by studying existing and new requirements and overseeing and enforcing school-wide adherence to requirements.
- Coordinates safety planning and practice to support academic processes of each school by creatively implementing best practices in safety, security and emergency preparedness with proper adaptation to the environment, creativity and innovation so the process of education can be enhanced rather than impeded by safety efforts.
- Conducts and coordinates safety, security and emergency preparedness training by developing, scheduling and/or facilitating training for staff, students and public safety officials relating to school safety, security and emergency preparedness.
- Secures facilities, equipment, students and personnel by working in conjunction with the appropriate departments in recommending safety and security equipment purchases and upgrades; maintaining records of fire and other emergency drills and conducting drills when appropriate; supervising and maintaining access control and key distribution
- Serves as a liaison with local law enforcement agencies. Working directly with local law enforcement agencies during critical incident situations and follow-up.
- Works with appropriate departments to meet operational security needs within budget; works with Finance, Facilities and Maintenance departments for capital improvements as needed; schedules expenditures.
- Assists in the development and implementation of security plans for special events.
- Advises and assists site-based administrators in matters involving criminal activities on school campuses.
- Coordinates with site-based administrators, Maintenance and Facilities Departments to address and correct safety/security issues on school campus.
- Advise architectural design teams for construction and renovation projects relative to school safety.
- Prepares memos, reports, drawings, etc. related to safety and traffic issues on school campus; presenting them to appropriate school directors.
- Receives all reports of school crime from site-based administrators and maintains statistics regarding this information.
- Communicates with other schools on matters related

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