Preferred Education
Post-secondary education (including but not limited to), Public Safety, Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Crime Scene Investigation, Legal Studies, Law School, Forensic Science, Police Academy, Sheriff Academy, and EMT license.
Preferred Experience
Extensive experience in law enforcement or security that involves working substantially in an environment where human relations, interpersonal and problem-solving skills are used.
Language Statement
We welcome multilingual applicants who can support and welcome all students.
Bilingual/Multicultural Statement:
Inclusiveness, diversity, and equity are integral to Lane’s commitment to excellence in education and our commitment to student and community engagement. We welcome applicants who bring a diversity of identity, culture, experience, perspective, multilingual skills, and thought. We encourage applications from candidates that identify with groups that are historically underrepresented in higher education.
Equivalency Statement:
We want to find the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background. We welcome applicants who bring a diversity of identity, culture, experience, perspective, and thought. We encourage you to apply, even if you do not believe you meet every one of the qualifications described. You are also encouraged to address in the optional Supplemental Question how your professional and lived experience, scholarship, teaching, mentorship and/or service will contribute to the Lane mission of transforming lives through learning.
Position Purpose:
Public Safety Officers will patrol the Lane Community College campus properties and provide immediate response to threats, emergencies, and dangerous situations. Officers will also provide law enforcement, rules enforcement, and crime prevention for the campus community.
Essential Functions:
- Enforce public laws and campus rules.
- Routinely conduct traffic stops, respond to fire and medical emergencies, assist persons in distress, and maintain order on campus.
- Operate patrol vehicles (motor vehicles, bicycles, and motorized vehicles).
- Officers must have sufficient fitness to perform all essential functions of a law enforcement officer, including making unaided arrests, rendering first aid and CPR, and responding to environmental and other campus emergencies.
- Operate technical devices including computer systems, cameras, radios, and alarms systems inside campus buildings, on-campus lands and in all weather conditions.
- Interact with belligerent individuals and resolve disputes using the minimum level of enforcement action necessary.
- Actively participate in training and master law enforcement tools such as batons, chemical sprays, and handcuffs.
- Enforce parking regulations.
- Fully participate in the on-campus judicial system and work with other law enforcement and fire agencies.
- Full-time officers are expected to gain expertise and learn subject matter expertise in specific areas of office operations.
- Problem solve and manage sensitive information with appropriate awareness of FERPA standards; maintain confidentiality and sensitivity to the privacy needs of students.
- Other duties as assigned.
Equity and Inclusion
- Demonstrate Lane Community College’s core value of social justice by ensuring equity and inclusion skills such as respect, inclusiveness, reflecting, valuing of cultural and personal differences. These are the basis of employee and student interpersonal communications and relationships and are applied to all position responsibilities.
- Duties are carried out respectfully, regardless of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, social class, marital status, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, nationality, age, language, origin or employment status.
- Must demonstrate an active concern for meeting the needs of students, staff, and the public.
- Actively assist with ADA compliance in conjunction with Lane Community College’s Human Resources and Disability Resources departments; support appropriate access for persons with disabilities to facilitate student and staff success; mentor and role-model cultural competency for persons with disabilities.
Supervision Statement:
Reports to and works under the general supervision of the Director of Public Safety and appointed lead officers in the chain of command. Work is performed independently using knowledge of applicable procedures, rules, regulations and statutes. Work is reviewed only periodically to assure conformance with established policies and to measure results. Positions in this classification may coordinate and lead the work of student assistants and hourly employees.
Physical Demands/Working Environment:
- Climb stairs and walk and stand for extended periods.
- Officers must occasionally run to emergency calls.
- Officers must be able to operate a motor vehicle for extended periods.
- Officers must be able to lift a fifty-pound (50 lb.) weight, have normal strength and range of motion and use of all limbs.
- Officer eyesight should be correctable to 20/20 and unassisted vision should minimally be 20/200.
- Officers must work safely.
- Officers work with hostile, aggressive or violent persons.
- Officers may work in dangerous situations, with large groups of upset individuals.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Modern law enforcement or security patrol techniques.
- Differences between higher education law enforcement challenges and standard public or private law enforcement practices.
- Human relations.
- Criminal investigation procedures.
Skills in:
- Community policing practices.
- Problem-solving and decision-making.
- Human relations.
- Effective communication.
- Active listening.
- De-escalation techniques.
Ability to:
- Learn law enforcement or security competencies including commonly utilized Oregon criminal and traffic statutes.
- Learn and utilize campus information such as campus geography, policies, key contacts, specific procedures and expectations.
- Affect a lawful arrest.
- Learn technical and operational procedures on a variety of technologies including, but not limited to: radios, computers, and video systems.
- Provide support to employees working to meet accreditation standards through evaluation and assessment of student outcomes.
Applicant Instructions:
Applicant Instructions
- Lane uses a redacted application for screening Minimum Qualifications. Incomplete applications will not be considered. All fields in the application must be completed, including employment dates, work hours, and detailed job duties. See our FAQs for more details.
- Resume / Curriculum Vitae (CV) may not take the place of any section in the application.
Required Documents
To be considered a candidate for this position, all of the following must be included in the application package:
- Application – Complete and submit online via the applicant portal.
- Resume – Comprehensive of experience, education, and accomplishments.
- Cover Letter – Clearly detailing how you meet the qualifications for the position.
- Certifications/License – See below in Transcripts Instructions.
If applicable: DD214 – Veterans, please fax, e-mail, or mail your documentation (DD214/DD215/letter of disability) to Human Resources at Lane Community College, attn. Jill Deneault,
[email protected], Fax: 541-463-3970.
Additional Documents and Letters of reference are not accepted.
Questions?
- For assistance with the online application call Human Resources at 541-463-5586
- For position questions contact Jill Deneault, [email protected]
How to monitor your application:
- Enter [email protected] into your Safe Senders list. Notifications will be sent toward the end of the search process.
- Visit your Employment Opportunities account. The main page will show your status in the search.
Positions close at 9:00 pm on closing date.
Transcript Instructions:
Certification/License Instructions
- If currently licensed, upload or send a copy of DPSST license.
- If you have obtained a degree higher than the required education for this position, then unofficial transcripts are required to ensure an accurate salary placement is conducted. Follow the same instructions above for Certification/Licenses.
- International degrees will require a foreign degree evaluation for their US equivalent. For more details, click here.
Attach under “Optional Documents”, fax, e-mail, deliver or mail to:
Lane Community College
Human Resources
Posting#260079, Attn: Jill Deneault
4000 E. 30th Ave.
Building 3, 1st floor
Eugene, OR 97405
Fax: (541) 463-3970
E-mail:
[email protected]Union Association:
LCC Employees Federation (Classified)
