Police Officer

WORK SCHEDULE

Varies. Can work daytime, evenings, overnights, weekends, and holidays.

JOB SUMMARY

A sworn police officer who will assist in providing a safe environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors of Southern Nazarene University. Provide proactive law enforcement services for unlawful activities on SNU’s main campus or off-campus locations. Provide knowledge and experience from a law enforcement standpoint in collaboration with other university departments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Enforce applicable state, local, federal laws and campus policies.
• Conduct foot and mobile patrols of the campus, facilities and vicinity.
• Work special events on campus when a law enforcement presence is needed.
• Enforce parking and other university regulations; Respond to reports of criminal activity and accidents; write reports.
• Conduct field interviews.
• Write citations for traffic violations on city streets.
• Administer field training program and train new and tenured employees.
• Attend departmental training, as requested or required.
• Maintain accurate activity log; write & submit comprehensive reports.
• Provide emergency assistance during natural emergencies, fires, accidents, and personal injuries.
• Orally communicate campus regulations, rules and policies to members of the campus community and others on campus.
• Coordinate, with dispatchers and other officers, field activity via hand-held radio, and to receive information from such sources via hand-held radio.
• Provide transport and escort services to university officials and visiting dignitaries.
• Motorist Assist with lost key entries, jump starts and flat tires.
• Provide dispatch or departmental support services, as requested.
• Work collaboratively with other officers, staff, supervisors, and guests.
• Meet and maintain all standards and requirements for physical agility, strength and conditioning, and firearms, as required.
• Maintain a professional appearance and demeanor at all times.
• Remain proficient with all training relating to the carry and use of firearms.
• Coordinate and provide support for parking and crowd management at major events on campus or off campus facilities.
• Assist law enforcement agencies with support and proper information in a timely manner regarding calls received and violation of laws on campus.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Southern Nazarene University is an expression of the Church of the Nazarene. According to SNU policy, all faculty and staff must possess a strong personal Christian commitment and be committed to the SNU mission to make Christlike disciples through higher education in a Christ centered community.
• As an institution of the Church of the Nazarene, applicants must understand and embrace the biblical principle that all people are created in the image of God and should be treated with dignity and respect, including a belief in equal opportunity to work, contribute, and flourish without discrimination.
• Upon appointment must be 21 years of age.
• (2) years prior law enforcement experience.
• Current Full-time or Reserve CLEET Certification in good standing.
• Prior experience as an FTO and or CLEET Certified Instructor highly desirable.
• Personal health and fitness level that will allow for significant time periods of walking, standing, running, and/or stair climbing, lifting or moving moderately. weighted items, and possible physical contact with other individuals as it would relate to security or law enforcement duties.
• Proven leadership and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills.
• Good written or oral communication abilities as they pertain interpersonal relationships as well as providing directives to others, incident and crime reporting, etc.
• Proficiency with technology that could be related to email, word processing, utilizing video surveillance systems, processing parking violations and citations, etc.
• Must pass background investigation to include contact with previous law enforcement agencies, fingerprint check, and other criminal justice systems.
• Post offer must be deemed “suitable” for law enforcement service through the use of a law enforcement psychological examination.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a higher education setting

Supervision Received:

Receives supervision and work assignments from Director of Public Safety/ Chief of Police and or other positions within the departmental chain of command.

Supervision Exercised:

May be responsible for the coordination of work assignments for student employees.

Availability:

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Apply Online for this position at Southern Nazarene Careers

Benefits

Generous benefit structure including family health insurance plan (shared cost), long term disability, dental insurance, group life insurance, retirement matching, employee tuition remission after 90th day of employment, dependent tuition remission percentage based on number of years served, vacation, sick leave, personal days, and holidays.

Organization

Southern Nazarene University is a private, Christian, liberal arts university. It is an expression of the educational ministry of the Church of the Nazarene. Based at its main residential campus located just west of Oklahoma City, SNU serves students from around the world at multiple locations in Oklahoma and through online educational opportunities.

Founded in 1899, SNU grew out of several small evangelical colleges committed to training people for service to God and their fellow man. During the later part of the nineteenth century, settlers in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas founded these educational institutions to promote the optimistic message that the result of people fully aligning their lives with God’s work in the world would be personal holiness and compassionate service.

Southern Nazarene University values each person created in the image of God, therefore, we also desire to be a community that reflects representation of diversity. We care about inclusion and equity through the refining of our character, the way we create culture and the way we serve Christ. Our University values reconciliation through God’s love.

Southern Nazarene University policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, marital status, disability, genetic information, veterans status or any other legally protected class in the recruitment and admission of students, in all personnel actions or decisions including, but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, upgrading, promotion, demotion, termination and salary, and in the operation of all university programs, activities, and services.

Company info

Website: https://www.snu.edu/snu-careers/

Telephone: 405-491-6333

Location: 6729 NW 39th Expressway, Bethany, Oklahoma, 73008, US