Campus Public Safety Sergeant (Provisional) REOPENED

About the role

The Department of Public Safety at Baruch College seeks a Campus Public Safety Sergeant to ensure continuity of the department's vision, objectives, and goals.

Responsibilities

• Handle day-to-day personnel scheduling, ensuring adequate tour coverage, and conducting roll call for a specified Public Safety tour.
• Formally supervise Campus Peace Officers (Levels 1 and 2), Campus Security Assistants, and Security Guards.
• Provide guidance to subordinates in responding to emergencies.
• Conduct post inspections and ensure that subordinates maintain a personal record (memo book) of daily job activities and incidents.
• Occasionally act as Tour Commander, in absence of a Lieutenant or other ranking officer.
• Review Incident Reports and other Public Safety reports prepared by subordinates.
• Make emergency notifications to the Campus Public Safety Director concerning various operations and emergencies on campus.
• Initiate employee disciplinary action, when necessary and appropriate, in accordance to Standard Operating Procedures as well as College and University rules, regulations, policies, and practices.
• Serve on College committees, acting as a Departmental representative.
• Patrol Act as a First Responder to alarms, calls for service, and medical emergencies that require the potential use of a defibrillator and/or other First-Aid techniques.
• Perform Fire Safety Director duties related to the maintenance of Fire Safety equipment and coordination of fire drills and building evacuations during times of hazardous conditions, including in response to bomb threats.
• Conduct patrols of campus premises by driving marked cars or other vehicles with official markings.

Requirements

• Must be a permanent CUNY Campus Peace Officer with at least 2 years of permanent service AND HAVE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COMBINATIONS OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
• A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Police Science or a related field.
• An Associate’s degree or sixty (60) college credits from an accredited college AND two (2) additional years as a Campus Peace Officer.
• Thirty (30) college credits from an accredited college and an additional four (4) years as a Campus Peace Officer (for a total of six (6) years).
• Thirty (30) college credits AND Three (3) years of full time active military experience, AND one (1) additional year of either active military service or Campus Peace Officer experience (for a total of six (6) years).
• Must be able to speak, read, write, and comprehend the English Language well enough to meet the minimally acceptable performance standards set for job tasks.
• Must hold New York State Peace Officer Status.
• Must meet physical and medical requirements as defined in University examination standards.
• Candidates must successfully undergo a screen for drug usage and may be required to demonstrate physical readiness for performance of job tasks.
• Must undergo a background check, including fingerprint screening.

Qualifications

• Required Knowledge: Administration and Management, Public Safety and Security, Laws, Rules, and Regulations, Arrest, Defensive Tactics, First-Aid/CPR, Fire Safety, Campus.
• Required Skills: Exercising good judgment, effectively organizing college-issued property, post, paperwork, and all other necessary equipment used by themselves and subordinates to perform job duties, transmitting ideas and information, providing customer service, interviewing suspects and witnesses, delegating work assignments, counseling employees, resolving disputes, observing carefully, displaying vigilance, paying attention to details, and noticing when things are out of the ordinary, properly asserting themselves, examining past events and learning from past experiences.
• Required Abilities: Physically respond to calls for service, alarms, and other emergencies, stand for extended periods of time, lift a 40-pound box without assistance, read and understand information and ideas presented in writing, see objects in detail under various conditions, know their location in relation to the environment and know where other objects are in relation to themselves, understand and follow directives issued in person, via radio, or in writing, properly assert themselves by speaking with confidence and clarity to convey messages in a precise and professional manner, examine past events and learn from past experiences.