Protection Officers: Security
North West University · North West
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Communication and Stakeholder Relations.
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders with regards to protection services through various mediums.
- Conduct Duty on and Duty of parades.
- Ensure that subordinates adhere to SOP's and Instructions
- Ensure subordinates adhere to campus regulations.
- Ensure subordinates conduct their duties in terms of the values of the Institution
- Joint accountability with leadership team regarding the effective and professional management of the NWU Protection Services and contracted Security.
Crime Information
- Attend to incidents and information received.
- Ensure that crime information received is reported to the Control Room and necessary documents are completed.
Operations
- The daily delivery of a safe NWU Potchefstroom campus community by executing daily patrols and access control.
- Ensure compliance of service providers deployed at the access points – reporting any deviations.
- To act in the best safety and security interest of NWU Potchefstroom Campus Community.
- Effective alarm management.
- Conduct access control functions effectively.
- Regular consistent radio and telephone communication.
- Effective incident management.
- Ensure that all faults and deviations reported timeously.
- Efficient locking and unlocking of buildings.
Security
- To ensure that physical crime prevention measures are conducted within regulations and policy directives
- Ensure adherence and compliance on service level agreements between protection services and relevant stakeholders including overseeing outsource security services.
Disaster Management
- Compliance to allocated functions from the disaster management plan to ensure immediate response to relevant disasters
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders an incident response and management plan of catastrophic incidences.
Special Events and Emergency Services
- Ensuring the protection of university property and life against fire hazards and other safety risks.
- Ensure the deployment of Special Events in accordance to relevant legislation.
Minimum requirements
- Valid PSIRA grade C, &D.
- A minimum of two 2 years security experience.
ADDED ADVANTAGE
- Valid driver's license.
- 1-year higher education experience.
KEY FUNCTIONAL/ TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
- Computer literacy
- Must communicate by radio as well as by telephone.
- Must complete and maintain a pocketbook and incident book Visitation services, seizure and preservation of evidence.
- Reaction service on alarms.
- Providing evidence in disciplinary and criminal matters.
- Attendance of complaints.
- Opening and closing of buildings.
- Traffic and Access Control on campus Identification of occupational safety risks.
- Execution of ad hoc assignments.
- Must provide search query services.
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Must be able to function in a team.
- Excellent judgement skills.
- Good communication skills Interpersonal Customer service orientated.
- Pro-active and innovative problem solver.
- Excellent time management skills.