Public Safety Student Officer and Dispatcher 2024-2025

Instructions for Applying to this Position

1. How to complete the Student Application:

1. If you have had an on-campus job, please log-in using your LionLink Credentials to your Dayforce account by clicking here, navigate to Main Menu then click “Careers”, search for this position title, and then click the “Apply Now” button.
2. If you have never held an on-campus job, apply through Dayforce by clicking “Apply Now” at the bottom of this job posting.  You will be taken to a new page and will be prompted to create a new candidate account”.

Position Summary:

Student Officers assist with the everyday operations of the Public Safety Department. The Student Officer Program is not only intended as a source of income, but a branch of the student’s education. The program provides opportunities to gain useful job skills and grow personally and professionally. As members of the Public Safety Department, Student Officers receive training in radio communications, computer processes, dispatching, customer service, community relations, traffic control techniques, in addition to other useful skills. Public Safety operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays and weekends.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Answering phones
2. Dispatching officers
3. Daily Activity Log
4. Video Surveillance
5. Emergency Response Plan
6. Simplex Grinnell Alarms
7. Issuing keys and Identification Cards
8. Campus Lost & Found Records
9. Taking messages
10. Helping with special events outside of the office
11. Parking Lot Management during special events
12. Greeting visitors, students, faculty, and staff
13. Data entry/Computer projects
14. Building Access Procedures
15. Phone Check Logs/Data entry
16. Testing emergency phones on campus

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this job. 

The individual is routinely exposed to indoor conditions, minimum outdoor weather and temperature extremes, and moderate noise level.

Qualifications/Prerequisites:

1. SKILLS

1. The ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel is required.
2. The ability to learn other basic computer and technology processes as needed is preferred.
3. Ability to work occasional weekend and night shift hours are required.

2. EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

1. Criminology majors are especially encouraged to apply, but the position is open to all areas of study.

3. EDUCATION
   1. Must be a current Albright College student              

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