The Community Service Officer will assist students, faculty, staff, and visitors in a University campus environment and maintain a safe and secure environment for the entire Campus community.
Requirements
- Assists students, faculty, staff, and visitors whenever needed and works to maintain a safe and secure environment for the entire community.
- Patrols campuses on foot and inspects hallways, stairways, and all other public areas for fire/safety hazards.
- Assists with investigations of all criminal and suspicious occurrences on school campuses and act/reports same.
- Responsible for the visitor management function including checking identification and logging visitor information and monitoring incoming personnel and visitors after hours.
- Enforces photo ID policy and parcel inspection policy along with all other University of Chicago policies.
- Responds to non-hazardous, non-emergency and other calls for service in lieu of a police officer, such as lost property, requests for safety escorts, building close procedures, and motorist assistance.
- Writes reports documenting incidents and calls for service and prepares other written correspondence as needed.
- Maintains various logs and records; gathers information and prepares routine reports as assigned; enters input, and retrieves a variety of information using a computer.
- Supports a variety of administrative functions for the department and assists with projects as needed.
- Provides traffic control at traffic crashes, school dismissal periods, special events, and as necessary.
- Provides information to students, faculty, staff, and visitors including directions, information about crime prevention, community services, programs, and practices.
- Observes activity and traffic in the assigned area to enforce University rules/regulations; alerts visitors of infractions; removes unwanted or disruptive individuals from University property.
- Assists in conducting security-related drills.
- Openly supports the mission and vision of the Department of Safety and Security.
- Provides safety escort services upon request.
- Conducts live monitoring of video cameras (video patrol) and License Plate Recognition Cameras (LPR) and video reviews as assigned.
- Notifies the ECC of any incident or observations requiring UCPD or other emergency services.
- Monitors incidents in real-time as they are called into the UCPD Emergency Communications Center and reviews video of an incident immediately after the occurrence.
- Coordinates with other UCPD units to conduct video patrol of designated mission areas.
- Reports camera outages or other technical and maintenance issues to the Department of Safety and Security- Security Systems team.
- Maintains various logs and records; gathers information and prepares routine reports as assigned; enters input, and retrieves a variety of data using a computer.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
