We are an education-focused organization committed to providing safe, secure, and welcoming environments for students, faculty, staff, visitors, and campus partners.

Our distributed teams collaborate across Campus Operations, Security, Facilities, Student Affairs, Human Resources, Information Technology, Health & Safety, Emergency Services, Legal, Government Authorities, and Executive Leadership to protect people, property, information, and institutional operations.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Campus Security Manager to lead campus security operations, risk management, emergency preparedness, access control, incident response, security personnel, and protective-security programs.

The ideal candidate will combine strong physical-security expertise with operational leadership, emergency management, risk assessment, stakeholder coordination, compliance, and security technology capabilities.

The role will be responsible for maintaining a safe campus environment while ensuring security measures are proportionate, professional, student-focused, and aligned with applicable UAE requirements and institutional policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive campus security strategies, policies, procedures, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Lead day-to-day campus security operations across academic buildings, administrative facilities, student residences, recreational areas, parking facilities, entrances, and other campus locations.
• Conduct comprehensive security risk assessments covering people, facilities, assets, events, transportation, access points, and operational activities.
• Identify security vulnerabilities and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Establish security standards for buildings, classrooms, laboratories, residences, libraries, sports facilities, offices, and other campus environments.
• Manage security personnel, supervisors, control-room operators, reception-security staff, patrol teams, and contracted security providers.
• Develop staffing models, patrol schedules, shift plans, post orders, deployment strategies, and security coverage requirements.
• Ensure security personnel are appropriately trained, licensed, briefed, equipped, and supervised.
• Establish clear security post orders, patrol procedures, escalation protocols, and reporting requirements.
• Monitor security personnel performance and conduct regular inspections and operational reviews.
• Manage campus access-control systems, visitor-management processes, identification systems, security gates, access cards, and related technologies.
• Establish appropriate access privileges for students, faculty, employees, contractors, visitors, vendors, and other authorized individuals.
• Coordinate the issuance, activation, modification, and deactivation of access credentials.
• Monitor access-control activity and investigate unauthorized access attempts or suspicious activity.
• Develop and maintain emergency-response plans for incidents including fire, medical emergencies, severe weather, hazardous-material events, violence, threats, suspicious packages, unauthorized access, missing persons, and other campus emergencies.
• Coordinate emergency preparedness exercises, drills, simulations, and tabletop exercises.
• Work closely with local emergency services, police, civil-defense authorities, medical providers, and relevant government agencies.
• Establish clear emergency notification, communication, evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown, and incident-escalation procedures.
• Develop proactive measures to reduce recurring security risks.
• Coordinate campus security for major events including conferences, sporting events, graduation ceremonies, public events, VIP visits, and student activities.
• Develop event-specific security plans, staffing requirements, access controls, emergency procedures, and crowd-management strategies.
• Conduct security assessments for high-profile events and special activities.
• Establish procedures for managing protests, demonstrations, large gatherings, disruptive behavior, and other campus events while maintaining safety and respecting applicable institutional policies and laws.
• Work closely with Student Affairs, Faculty Leadership, Human Resources, and Campus Operations on student and employee safety matters.
• Develop appropriate procedures for vulnerable individuals, safeguarding concerns, missing students, welfare incidents, and other sensitive situations.
• Coordinate with Facilities teams to identify and address physical-security weaknesses such as inadequate lighting, damaged doors, defective locks, unsecured windows, or unsafe access routes.
• Conduct regular security inspections of campus facilities and grounds.
• Review building designs, renovation projects, and new developments from a security perspective.
• Provide security requirements for new construction, facility upgrades, access-control systems, surveillance systems, perimeter controls, and emergency infrastructure.
• Manage security contractors and third-party service providers.
• Establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs), performance requirements, reporting standards, and compliance expectations for security vendors.
• Conduct contractor performance reviews, inspections, and compliance assessments.
• Manage security-related budgets covering personnel, technology, equipment, training, maintenance, and contracted services.
• Monitor expenditure and identify opportunities to improve security effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Maintain comprehensive security records including incident reports, patrol logs, access records, visitor records, CCTV-related documentation, risk assessments, training records, inspection reports, and corrective-action registers.
• Establish appropriate security-information management and confidentiality controls.
• Work with IT and Data Protection teams to ensure security-related information and surveillance data are appropriately protected.
• Ensure security policies and practices comply with applicable UAE laws, regulations, institutional requirements, and recognized security standards.
• Maintain appropriate security licenses, permits, certifications, contracts, and regulatory documentation.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, investigations, and security assessments.
• Develop and monitor campus-security KPIs and provide regular reports to senior leadership.
• Use security data and analytics to identify trends, improve resource allocation, and strengthen preventative-security measures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI-enabled video analytics, smart access control, mobile credentials, emergency communication platforms, and other security technologies.
• Develop continuous-improvement initiatives to strengthen campus safety, security awareness, and emergency preparedness.
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