Emergency Management, Continuity, and Incident Coordination:
Leads the College’s all-hazards emergency-management and continuity program across prevention, protection, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity.
Develops, maintains, and annually reviews the Emergency Operations Plan, annexes, incident procedures, contact protocols, and related resources.
Coordinates the Incident Management Team and Emergency Operations Center, including activation and appropriate incident-management structure.
Serves as institutional emergency coordinator during significant incidents, coordinating College resources and decision-making while supporting transfer of operational command to responding public-safety agencies.
Maintains an annual training and exercise program, including drills, tabletop and functional exercises, and periodic exercises with community response partners.
Leads after-action reviews and tracks corrective actions to completion.
Coordinates departmental continuity planning for essential functions, dependencies, recovery priorities, alternate processes, and resource needs.
Campus Safety, Security Services, and External Partnerships:
Serves as the College’s principal liaison with local, county, regional, state, and federal public-safety and emergency-management partners.
Administers or functionally oversees law-enforcement and private-security agreements, including service expectations, post orders, reporting and escalation, training, and performance measures in coordination with Procurement, Finance, Legal Counsel, and leadership.
Reviews provider performance and coverage, resolves concerns, and recommends changes to agreements, staffing, deployment, or service delivery.
Maintains relationships with police, fire, EMS, emergency management, dispatch, public health, hospitals, behavioral-health, and other response partners.
Coordinates joint planning, training, exercises, site familiarization, responder access, emergency mapping, and information sharing.
Risk Assessment, Physical Security, and Special Event Safety:
Conducts or coordinates safety, physical-security, and hazard assessments and prioritizes risk-reduction recommendations.
Partners with Facilities, Information Technology, Student Affairs, Human Resources, Academic Affairs, and others on security needs involving facilities, access control, video surveillance, alarms, emergency communications, duress systems, lighting, locks, emergency phones, and related technologies.
Participates in security-technology standards, procurement, implementation, and performance evaluation.
Develops or coordinates safety and security plans for major events, high-attendance activities, controversial speakers, demonstrations, dignitary visits, commencements, and other activities requiring enhanced planning.
Participates in behavioral threat-assessment, CARE, workplace-violence prevention, or similar teams consistent with the responsibilities and authority of other offices.
Monitors emerging threats, hazards, and public-safety trends and advises leadership on institutional impact.
Compliance, Incident Information, and Program Accountability:
Coordinates campus-safety compliance with responsible offices, including Student Affairs, Human Resources, Title IX, Communications, and Legal Counsel.
Supports Clery Act compliance, including crime statistics, Campus Security Authority coordination and training, geography review, law-enforcement data requests, crime logs where applicable, Annual Security Report development, timely warnings, and emergency notifications.
Maintains centralized safety and emergency-management records and supporting compliance documentation.
Develops dashboards and reports on incidents, service demand, preparedness, corrective actions, contract performance, and resource needs.
Provides routine and incident-specific briefings to executive leadership, institutional committees, and the Board of Trustees as requested.
Training, Communication, and Community Engagement:
Promotes a College-wide culture of safety, preparedness, shared responsibility, and trust through communication, education, and engagement.
Develops and delivers audience-appropriate training and presentations for students, employees, contractors, visitors, and College leadership.
Communicates complex or sensitive safety information clearly, calmly, accurately, and appropriately.
Collaborates with Strategic Communications on emergency messaging, preparedness campaigns, safety updates, website content, and post-incident communication.
Maintains a visible, approachable presence across College locations and seeks feedback on safety concerns, service quality, and preparedness needs.
Facilitates cross-functional planning among stakeholders with differing roles, backgrounds, and priorities.
Budget, Grants, and Administration:
Develops and administers the campus safety and emergency-management operating budget and reviews expenditures and invoices for contracted services, training, equipment, and related needs.
Develops short- and long-term resource recommendations for personnel, services, equipment, technology, training, and facilities.
Identifies and supports grants and external funding for campus safety, emergency management, physical security, preparedness, and resilience.
All other duties assigned by supervisor.
