Routine security work including campus surveillance, traffic control, securing buildings, and accident and theft investigation, if required. Position could include weekends and after hours shift details. Security officers may also work during normal college hours, with other APOSTC certified officers.

• Maintain campus surveillance by foot and vehicular patrol.
• Issues citations for traffic and parking violations and directs incoming and outgoing traffic.
• Monitors severe weather, checks for leaks, fires and safety hazards, checks fire extinguishers.
• Locks all rooms containing equipment; secure all interior and exterior doors of building; unlock buildings.
• Investigate accidents and thefts; complete and file appropriate reports, if required.
• Assist state and local law enforcement agencies.
• Assist students, faculty, and visitors with vehicular problems, assist visitors with locating buildings.
• Serve as dispatch/communications officer as needed.
• Answer telephone, monitor radio, and deliver messages.
• May be required to make mail deliveries and/or deliver bank deposits.
• Defend members of the campus community by confronting potentially violent and armed individuals.
• Assist with fire evacuation, active shooter, lock down drills, and crime prevention efforts.
• Ability to work flexible hours as needed to ensure appropriate shift coverage.
• Perform related work as assigned.
• Perform all duties with professionalism.
  
  

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

MINIMUM EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

Education: High School or GED diploma required; Associate degree preferred

Experience: Experience with police communication and/or law enforcement, or the military preferred

Licenses: Current Alabama driver’s license required

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Campus procedures, rules and guidelines.
• State and Local laws.
• Driving rules.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Make mathematical computations and tabulations accurately and with reasonable speed.
• Drive a motorized vehicle.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationship with students, other employees and the public.
• Must successfully pass the APOSTC handgun qualification course before carrying a handgun on duty and annually thereafter.
• Must successfully complete an ACCS dim light firearms qualification course annually.
• Must complete use of force/legal issues course annually.
• Must complete a certification course and recertify annually with their less lethal force option before carrying the less lethal option on duty.
• Must successfully complete advanced firearms training.
• Must complete a minimum 16 hours active shooter response training course prior to duty assignment for hours that the college is open for business.
  
  

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications and must submit a complete application packet through the on-line application system to be considered. A complete application consists of the following:

• An on-line application
• Current resume
• Copy of college transcripts (Transcript must confirm applicant meets educational requirements.)
  
  

Application materials must provide documentation that the applicant meets all minimum

Qualifications.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications as indicated on this vacancy notice and must submit a completed application packet in order to be considered for this position. Complete application files must be received no later than the application deadline. Applicant who fail to submit all required information will be disqualified. Only applications received during the period of this announcement will be considered. Applicants must travel at their own expense. Finalist will be required to provide official transcripts that are mailed directly to the Office of Human Resources at Calhoun Community College from the institution(s) granting the credits.

Background Check Requirement

In accordance with Alabama Community College System Policy and guidelines, the applicant chosen for employment will be required to sign a consent form for a criminal background check. Employment will be contingent upon the receipt of a clearance notification from the criminal background check.

Calhoun Community College is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Alabama Community College System, including all post secondary community and technical colleges under the control of the Alabama Community College System Board of Trustees, that no employee or applicant for employment or promotion, on the basis of any impermissible criterion or characteristic including, without limitations, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, disability, sex, age, or any other protected class as defined by federal and state law, shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program, activity, or employment. Calhoun Community College participated in the E-Verify system to verify employment eligibility for all newly-hired employees. Calhoun Community College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate degrees. Degree-granting institutions also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Calhoun Community College may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org). Specific questions regarding Calhoun's educational programs, admissions, and other matters related specifically to the College should be forwarded directly to the college.

APPLICATION MAY BE FILED ONLINE AT: https://www.calhoun.edu

P.O. Box 2216 Decatur, AL 35609

256-306-2591

256-306-2590

[email protected].