The Hill School Mission: The Hill School prepares young people from across the country and around the world for college, careers, and life. Within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and reason; be fulfilled; serve the common good; and be prepared to lead as citizens of the world, uniquely guided by our motto, "Whatsoever Things Are True."
Position Summary
The Hill School is seeking a 2nd Shift (3pm to 11pm) Campus Security Officer who works every other weekend and provides personal, equipment, and real property security for students, faculty, staff, and visitors within an assigned area of the campus. Security Officers also provide escort services, and other basic public assistance services as needed, and perform routine security and public safety patrol duties. In an emergency situation security is expected to remain calm and alert.
Responsibilities and Qualifications
Primary focus of the 2nd Shift Campus Security Officer includes but are not limited to the following:
Ensure access through the Gate House is limited to faculty, staff, students, and approved vendors and visitors;
Patrol campus, either on foot or in a motorized vehicle to ensure the safety and security of Hill property and students, faculty, staff, etc.;
Examines doors, windows, and gates to ensure security; uses keys to open and close buildings; monitors closed buildings for unauthorized personnel and/or suspicious activities;
Warn violators of rule infractions, such as loitering, smoking, or carrying forbidden articles, and expels persons engaging in suspicious or criminal acts;
Completes a log of daily activities and provides "pass-on" information to relief personnel;
Completes Incident Reports and maintenance Service Request forms;
Provides escort services for visitors, students, staff, and faculty, as necessary; provides other public assistance, such as lockout services, jump starts, etc.;
Answers radio calls and/or incoming phone calls via security radio;
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
While performing the tasks of 2nd Shift Campus Security Officer, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Job Requirements
Valid Driver's license
High school diploma or GED
One to three months related experience and/or training, preferred
Must pass a pre-employment criminal background check
Experience in patrolling premises-either on foot or by vehicle-is crucial, to ensure thorough patrols and emergency responses
Physical requirements
Regular use of hands and fingers for handling and feeling
Visual acuity including close and distance vision, color discernment, peripheral vision, depth perception and focus adjustment
Must be able to communicate effectively, by speaking, to be understood when giving or receiving directions or reports, communicating with staff, residents and faculty
Hearing acuity required
Must be able to walk extensively, including navigating hills and stairs, without assistance
Additional physical requirements include reaching, crouching, crawling, balancing, and climbing
Must be able to lift and move items up to 50lbs
Skills and Abilities
Ability to successfully conduct security patrols without direct supervision
Ability to communicate effectively
Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle
Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures
Ability to react calmy and effectively in emergency situations.
Ability to detect problems and report information to appropriate personnel
Ability to multitask under stressful situations
Previous Public Safety experience, preferred
CPR, preferred
Attitude and Demeanor
Publicly support the mission and vision of The Hill School in a positive and professional manner.
Work as a dynamic team member in a professional collaborative environment.
Energetic and organized enough to thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment while collaborating with a growing team to produce great work.
Ability to wear many hats, learn new things every day, and have the ability to switch from a variety of roles with ease and excitement.
Communicate effectively with warmth, sensitivity, humor, and understanding as they deal with administrative colleagues, teachers, students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and program associates.
Possess a "service attitude" - willingness to be flexible to meet the needs of the department and school.
Job Requirements
Valid Driver's license
High school diploma or GED
One to three months related experience and/or training, preferred
Must pass a pre-employment criminal background check
Experience in patrolling premises-either on foot or by vehicle-is crucial, to ensure thorough patrols and emergency responses
Since its founding in 1851 and for 168 years, The Hill School has provided a traditional liberal arts education to its students. Although The Hill’s curriculum continues to evolve, we have never strayed very far from a proven, rigorous blend of humanities, classics and modern languages, social sciences, mathematics, science, and the arts. For our students, we have prioritized broad knowledge in our steadfast belief that this comprehensive foundation best prepares students for “college, careers, and life.”
The Hill School also has begun implementing an ambitious STEM curriculum, which includes one of the most extensive secondary school engineering programs in the nation. We have bolstered our fine arts programs with courses in digital media, video production, design technology, rapid prototyping and fabrication, and design thinking. And, we are offering pre-professional, co-curricular programs in business and entrepreneurship.
Over the coming years, we will continue to affirm what we already do very well while honing curricular and co-curricular programs such as leadership training, service learning, experiential education, and interdisciplinary studies. We will find improve...d ways to teach all Hill students 21st century skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leading, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurship, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing data, and curiosity and imagination. We are working with our Faculty and Staff to become both the most traditional and the most innovative boarding school in the country, simultaneously.
The Hill was founded as The Family Boarding School and when you visit campus, you might note that we are still a bit traditional, despite our emphasis on innovation! We follow a dress code, our students regularly sit down with faculty members for family-style meals, we gather twice a week at Chapel for thoughtful reflection; many of our students study Latin and Greek; and we pride ourselves on a student-written Honor Code and demanding code of conduct. We enjoy historic and blossoming traditions such as 130-year-old athletics rivalries, revered a cappella vocal groups, school-wide service projects, community team-building events, small group meetings with caring faculty advisers, and a very special jump in the Dell pond after graduation!
Over the next three to five years, the Hill School is set to achieve several accomplishments sure to leave their mark on the School’s history. The School’s Advancement Office is a 25 person-strong organization driven to achieve the goals set forth in the current “Strength of All” capital campaign which is entering its fourth year of the five- to seven-year campaign. The capital campaign will fund many efforts, including a significant increase in our financial aid and faculty compensation endowment. In 2018-2019, we expanded the seating capacity of our historic dining hall and completely renovated our food service and preparation areas used by our food service contractor, Sodexo. In 2019-2020, the School will construct the Quadrivium Center (a STEM facility) where our science, engineering, computer science and mathematics classes will be housed. The School has developed property adjacent to our main campus by recently erecting beautiful new homes for our faculty in our East Faculty Village. This Faculty Housing expansion is likely to continue with additional property available for housing construction to ensure The Hill School offers the very best of this important housing benefit to our residential faculty. One of our most ambitious goals is to be a driving force in the economic revitalization of Pottstown and our immediate neighborhood and through our Hobart’s Run Community Development program and participation in Pottstown CARES, we are finding traction in ways both small and large.