CAMPUS SAFETY - Operations Coordinator
Job Classification
Position summary
The Operations’ Coordinator is one of the Office of Campus Safety’s program specialists. These specialists fill a dual role, serving as a regularly scheduled shift for either Dispatch and/or Patrol while also having dedicated shifts for managing their assigned program, such as Operations Coordination.
The Operations Coordination role is to manage the day-to-day tasks of the office, identify operational needs/improvements and provide management for Office projects.
The shift role is currently a weekday, morning Dispatch shift.
Qualifications summary
The Operations’ Coordinator qualifications require background in process and project management, and ability to manage large projects and minute details. Qualifications also include proficiency in software solutions that are web-based, have data analysis functionality, and communication based.
Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.
Duties and responsibilities
The Operations’ Coordinator is expected to complete these duties without daily direction and only limited weekly direction. They are expected to exercise their professional discretion to determine the best course of action, providing direction to peers and superordinates as well as recommendations to Safety’s leadership/command team.
Coordinate work with Command and other Office of Campus Safety Program Specialists. Specific employees can include the Compliance Sgt, Community Resource Officer, and Case Coordinator.
Daily Tasks:
- Audit Card Access portal status/work orders
- Audit Citations for accuracy in data entry
- Audit Dispatch Module
- Audit Lost/Found inventory and associated paperwork
- Audit Officer Paperwork (Assist Forms, Building Schedule Forms)
- Audit Security Camera status/work orders
- Audit Vehicle Registrations for accuracy in data entry
- File Scanning/Archiving
- Generate AUIDs for Vehicle Registrations
- Manage campus buildings Open/Close Schedule
- Manage Safety email inbox
- Manage POS Terminal transactions/receipts
- Process Housing Lockout-Forms
- Provide new hire and recurring training on operating systems.
Weekly/Monthly Tasks:
- Archiving records (Dispatch Module, etc)
- Audit Building Manager Lists
- Audit Card Access 24/7 permissions
- Audit Translator Lists
- Manage equipment inspections
- Manage office-wide computer updates
- Manage the Office vending machine
- Manage vehicle immobilization list
- Manage vehicle inspections
- Review outstanding work orders with other University offices/departments
- Update Plant Service on-call list
- Update Res-Life Dean on-call list
Project Management Tasks:
- Oversee project management to track open projects, tasks pending, and employees responsible. This includes:
- Maintaining comprehensive project documentation
- Identifying/managing plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Providing routine reminders for completion
- Providing routine project updates to Command
- Identify operational improvements and provide proposals for projects/tasks to complete the improvements.
- Coordinate project/task completion with both Office employees as well as external offices/departments.
- Attend weekly Command meetings
Being available as an Office of Campus Safety employee:
- To respond to any Office of Campus Safety incident/event for additional manpower.
- To staff shift-work as needed.
- To be routinely scheduled to work shifts.
Other duties may be assigned.
Supervisory responsibilities
While this position does not provide employee correction or evaluation, they are responsible to provide all employees with direction in relation to task/project management and to provide supervisors with employee performance concerns. A team member’s failure to comply with the Operations Coordinator’s direction could result in discipline.
Qualifications
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.
In addition to the subsections below:
- Ability to rely on experience, training and judgment to execute policies and procedures.
- Ability to work cohesively in a team-oriented environment.
- Advanced communication and customer service skills with the faculty, staff, students, community visitors and emergency response agencies over the telephone and in person to resolve conflicts or respond to emergency incidents.
- Advanced proficiency in English speaking and writing skills.
- Experience with law enforcement or military preferred.
- Must be able to work shift assignments.
- Must function well while under stress.
- Must have excellent human relation skills, dealing with a wide variety of people.
- Must have or obtain a valid Michigan driver’s license.
Preferred experiences in:
- Working in higher education.
- Working with IT solutions and coordinating work with IT services.
- Change management – both identifying needed changes and implementing them.
- Five years’ experience in project management.
Education, Experience, and/or Certifications
Must have or be capable of obtaining certifications:
- Operations’ Coordinator Specific
- Jeanne Clery Center – Clery Act Compliance
- FEMA Leadership/Professional Development Series
- MIOSHA General Industry – 10hr+ Fundamentals of Safety & Health
- As a Campus Safety employee
- APCO Public Safety Telecommunicator
- A formal law enforcement training academy (BCSD Reserve Officer Training Academy accepted)
- Maintain certifications in CPR, First Aid and AED.
- FEMA IS 100, 200, 700, and 800
Leadership & Received Direction
Once trained, this position should function with limited direction and be responsible to identify daily/monthly tasks and any additional training necessary for the completion of their duties.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, distances, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Ability to calculate statistical data.
Other Skills
To effectively coordinate all reports, the Operations’ Coordinator must also have exceptional skills in:
- Attention to detail in written word, spreadsheets, web-forms, or any form of written communication.
- Observation of evidence in physical and electronic formats
- Time management/self-management.
- Organization of files, timelines, and case workflows
- Fact finding and inquisitive nature to determine cause and effect.
Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.
Technical competencies
Computer Skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office including Outlook and Word. Advanced skills required in data reporting/statistical analysis using advanced Excel formulas.
Proficient in other evidence-based applications used for card access, alarm systems, and security cameras. Proficient in software solutions for tracking methods for project/task management
Preferred experience either working directly with or coordinating projects with IT solutions, such as databases/SQL.
Equipment/Software Used
- Communications equipment, including radios, phones, messaging applications (Teams)
- Evidence gathering equipment including cameras, document scanners, and other software applications/computers.
- Mobile surveillance camera kit
- Vehicles, including road/off-road vehicles
Interpersonal interactions
Internally this position requires the ability to lead by example and to provide direction/training to peers without a supervisory responsibility. This requires the intentional fostering of working relationships through trust/credibility.
Externally this position will work towards providing support/follow-up for projects while fostering working relationships with campus entities. For on-duty work, it will include providing support to all involved parties while also taking steps to identify those responsible for the incident. This requires developing a unique balance of grace and justice that shows care/support while holding the same person accountable for their actions.
Physical demands
While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is regularly required to use other senses to talk, hear, taste, and/or smell. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, jump, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Employee will also be required to work in/be exposed to, all weather conditions associated with the State of Michigan.
Work environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While it is impossible to predict all situations that someone might encounter while performing their duties, it is understood, that employees are expected to conduct security patrols at all hours of the day and night, during many different types of weather conditions. During these common activities an employee might be confronted with potentially dangerous situations associated with security type work.
In the completion of these activities an employee will have access to a patrol vehicle and office.
While completing these duties, the employee will be walking through campus grounds including sidewalks, parking lots, roadways, grass areas, and wooded trails. The employee will also be accessing buildings, from common spaces to classrooms, labs, mechanical/electrical rooms, residential spaces, roof-tops, or any other area belonging to the University.