Safety Officer

The College is actively assessing its long-term campus safety model, including internal staffing and potential partnerships with external law enforcement agencies. This recruitment is being conducted to ensure readiness to meet operational needs. Employment decisions are contingent upon final institutional direction, and positions may be modified, delayed, or not filled.

• Hours of Work: Swing shift - 4pm - 12am. Night shift - 12am - 8am. 
• Screening will begin ASAP and continue until the position is filled.
• Start date to be determined, but as soon as practicable after the hiring/interview process.

Salary and Benefits: This is a full-time, benefited Staff, S30 level position. Starting salary range: $24.08 - $29.50/hourly, depending upon experience.

• Educational Benefits for the employees and dependents
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 15 – 18 Paid Holiday/Closure Days
• Three Paid Personal Days
• Healthcare/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Generous Retirement Benefits - 14.62% Employer Paid/4% Employee Paid
• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave
• Onsite Childcare Center
• Professional Development Opportunities

JOB SUMMARY:

The Campus Safety Officer is a full-time, benefited, position that maintains the safety and security of people and property on the college campus for 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.  The officer will patrol (on foot or by vehicle) the campus, buildings, parking lots; they will provide escorts for visitors, students, and employees; they will watch for emergency situations, suspicious activity, and campus policy and procedure violations; and they will prepare reports and logs.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: – this position is non-exempt and is eligible for compensatory or overtime pay provisions of the FLSA.
To perform successfully in this position, an individual must be able to perform principal responsibilities satisfactorily as well as possess education/experience, employ the knowledge, skills, and abilities as listed in representative fashion; reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the principal responsibilities. 

Ensure a safe and secure campus by monitoring the campus and parking lots for suspicious activity, safety hazards, and campus policy and procedure violations.

• Patrols campus areas to ensure security, secures campus entry and exit points, and monitors for suspicious activities. 
• Patrols and/or monitors parking areas to provide security, safeguard campus property, and prevent loss 

Maintain a safe, orderly, and healthy campus environment by responding promptly to incidents, offering assistance and intervention when necessary to maintain peace and order; and securing and opening the campus for the beginning and ending of the day.

• Performs periodic checks of fire extinguishers and ensures classroom safety tubs are stocked appropriately. 
• Secures all campus areas and locks all exterior doors at the conclusion of campus evening hours. 

Foster a unified approach to campus safety by maintaining clear and effective communication with campus safety team members, supervisors, and coordinating closely with law enforcement or other emergency responders to facilitate swift responses to incidents and promote collaborative problem-solving.

• Collaborates with local law enforcement to ensure officers and first responders are familiar with the campus and its layout to ensure that effective emergency response plans are established. 

Support accountability and continuous improvement efforts within the organization by documenting activities by providing accurate record-keeping and routine reports and investigating safety incidents.
Other responsibilities may be assigned based on contemporary institutional needs.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge

• Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. 
• Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. 
• Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. 

Skills

• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. 
• Active Listening - giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. 
• Conflict Management - Use of tools, skills and processes to find respectful and creative ways to resolve disputes and disagreements. 
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. 
• Coordination – Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions. 
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. 
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. 
• Negotiation – Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. 
• Persuasion – Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. 
• Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do. 
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others. 
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. 

Abilities

• Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. 
• Communication – The ability to effectively express your thoughts, ideas, and messages to diverse people in oral and written form. Public speaking skills and ability to write/edit emails, letters, and technical reports. 
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. 
• Emotional Intelligence – Ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you. 
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). 
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). 
• Response Orientation – The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). 
• Sound Localization – The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. 
• Speed of Closure - The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS:

• There may be occurrences of interacting with employees and/or students, past employees and/or students, members of the general public, and others who express opinions, may exhibit strong emotions, which will require the employee to interact professionally, diplomatically, and appropriately in such situations
• While performing the essential duties of this position, an employee would frequently be required to move around the assigned work areas as well as within hallways, meeting rooms, and other parts of the campus facilities
• There may be multiple/daily instances of prolonged sitting, standing, and personal computer use, which would include keyboard and/or mouse usage as well as viewing a computer monitor
• An employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus
• The overall work environment requires the mental ability to shift focal point quickly due to interruptions; an employee must be able to mentally track multiple projects and tasking as well

NOTE: This position description is a general description; it is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties someone in this position may perform.  All employees of the College are expected to perform other tasks as assigned by their respective supervisor/manager regardless of job title or routine job duties.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate degree in Criminal Justice or related field from an accredited college or university OR 2 years law enforcement/security experience will be accepted in lieu of education for which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved. 
• Two years of experience in law enforcement, customer service, or security role working in a diverse, multicultural community. 
• Valid driver’s license and ability to be insured by the College’s insurance provider. 
• Basic First aid/CPR/AED/Blood Borne Pathogens certifications or ability to obtain certifications within the first two months of employment. 

*In lieu of the required degree, candidates with equivalent professional experience, industry certifications, or a combination of education and relevant work experience may be considered. 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice or related field of study from an accredited college or university. 
• 5 years of experience in a law enforcement, customer service, or security role working in a diverse, multicultural community. 

If you are selected for the position, your appointment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. LCCC reserves the right to end this employment agreement should the results of your background investigation not be successful.

LCCC DOES NOT SPONSOR H1B VISAS.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Laramie County Community College is an EEO/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.

The college has a designated person to monitor compliance and to answer any questions regarding the college's nondiscrimination policies. Please contact: Title IX, Title VI, and ADA Coordinator, Suite 205, Clay Pathfinder Building, 1400 E College Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82007, 307.778.1144,NDS@lccc.wy.edu. Contact information for the regional Office for Civil Rights is: Office for Civil Rights, Denver Office, U.S. Department of Education, Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building, 1244 Speer Boulevard, Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204-3582, 303.844.5695,OCR.Denver@ed.gov. Updated 6/2025.

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The mission of Laramie County Community College is to transform our students' lives through the power of inspired learning. Our over-arching goal is that our accomplishments as a community college will distinguish LCCC from others in the nation, in turn benefiting our communities and bringing pride to the Great State of Wyoming.  Our core values include Passion, Authenticity, and the Desire to Make a Difference. 

Salary : $24 - $30