Associate Director of Security

Summary

Position Summary
Provides leadership and administrative management over the internal and contracted security force.  Develops and implements security policies/procedures and ensures they are effectively implemented throughout the organization.

Essential Duties

1. Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards.  Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
2. Development and administration of programs to protect the organization, patient and employee property from theft, sabotage, damage or other situations which endanger the wellbeing of patients, employees or organizational facilities.
3. Write, review and update security policies and procedures as necessary to ensure accuracy and effectiveness. Review all incident reports for accuracy, content and corrective actions. 
4. Maintain compliance with all healthcare security based regulatory standards; including but not limited to Joint Commission, CMS, city, state and local rules and regulations.
5. Work with Director to maintain departmental budget.
6. Develop training matrix and oversee its implementation for security force.
7. Oversees non-violent crisis intervention training for frontline hospital staff.  
8. Works in collaboration with institution leadership on risk mitigation and security based initiatives to reduce the risk of injury and other harm. Acts as a liaison to all departments on security measures and needs.
9. Oversees staff scheduling to ensure all shifts are covered and overtime is kept to a minimum. 
10. Develops and maintains partnerships with local public safety agencies; DPD, DFD, HSS etc.

Other Duties
None

Competencies

1. Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health. 
2. Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
3. Building a Successful Team: Using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team, aligns vision with shared values, manages change and encourages innovation.
4. Coaching and Teaching Others: Providing timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
5. Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
6. Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
7. Decision Making: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
8. Managing Conflict: Dealing effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people. Addresses conflicts by focusing on the issues at hand to develop effective solutions when disputes or disagreements occur; helps others resolve conflicts by providing impartial mediation when needed.
9. Problem Solving: Uses issue identification, data relation and comparison, pattern recognition and information gathering to create analyses and make recommendations.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
10-15 employees

Travel
Minimal (locally to provide training to satellite office staff)

Core Values

1. Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
2. Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
3. Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
4. Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
5. Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the institution.
6. Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures. 
7. Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
8. Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Security Management or related field preferred.
2. Work Experience: Minimum of 10 years Security experience with 5 years in leadership. Previous military or law enforcement experience preferred. 
3. Special Training, Certification or Licensure: Current Security Guard License. Current CHPA (certified healthcare protection administrator) or CPP (certified protection professional) certifications are preferred.  

Salary Range: $90,434 - $118,670

Benefits

At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset.

With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Medical Plans, Dental Plans and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• FSA and HSA
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Voluntary Benefits, like Accident Insurance, Critical Care and Hospital Indemnity
• Sick and Vacation Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Legal Plan