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About the Role

To provide safety and security to the students, faculty, staff, visitors, and property at Austin Community College campuses.

Responsibilities

• Performs all duties of a licensed police officer within the college environment.
• Coordinates and assists other officers.
• Writes and files daily logs and incident reports.
• Issues parking permits and citations.
• Provides information and directions to faculty, staff, students, and visitors.
• Opens and secures buildings and classrooms.
• Maintains departmental equipment and monitors college equipment inventory during routine patrols.
• Testifies on behalf of the college in all court proceedings as required.
• May act as a lead police officer in orienting, training, or assisting other officers.
• Informs and collaborates with campus managers on campus safety and security issues.
• Addresses identified campus needs and concerns.

Requirements

• Texas Peace Officer License and Valid Texas Drivers License.
• Must meet all Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education requirements for employment as a patrol officer.
• Ability to successfully complete criminal background check, drug screen, and psychological and physical examinations prior to employment.
• Past supervisors may be interviewed for a reference.
• Work is performed in various environments.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crawling, and climbing.
• Required to restrain persons.
• May need to feel for objects texture, size, shape.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 80 pounds.
• Perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels and able to receive detailed oral communication.
• Able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word, including conveying detailed or important spoken instructions accurately and concisely.
• Subject to physical harm such as with weapons and physical attacks.
• May be exposed to a variety of temperatures, noise, moving mechanical parts, communicable diseases, or chemicals.
• Specific vision abilities may include close vision, depth perception, distance vision, color vision, and ability to focus.
• Work safely and follow safety rules.
• Report unsafe working conditions and behavior.
• Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.
• Required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment.

Skills

• Maintaining an established work schedule, including some evenings and weekends.
• Required to respond to emergencies after hours, weekends, holidays, and during emergency closures.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
• Care, maintenance, and safe operation of firearms and impact weapons.
• Interacting with people of different social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Reviewing and preparing narrative and statistical reports and records.
• Interpreting and applying rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Communicating with violators and mediating difficult situations.
• Operating motor vehicles during emergency, high-risk situations.
• Following and effectively communicating verbal and written instructions.
• Establishing and effective working relationships.
• Use of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Location

• Austin Community College campuses

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• No work experience is required.

Education Level

• High school diploma or educational equivalent and successful completion of an Accredited Law Enforcement Agency Program.
• Thirty college credit hours (preferred).

Salary/Compensations

• $57,773 - $72,216

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans, and AD&D.
• Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only).
• ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) for hourly employees.

About the Company

• Austin Community College is a public two-year institution serving a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.
• The college's mission is to promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in its service area.
• ACC seeks to recruit and retain a workforce that values intellectual curiosity, innovative teaching, and equitable access to educational opportunities.
• The college is committed to student success, especially for first-generation, low-income, and underserved students, focusing on academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes.
• ACC fosters an environment that welcomes difference, models respectful interaction, and engages with the community.

Equal Opportunity

• Austin Community College (“ACC” or “College”) is an equal education and equal employment opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment at the college and access to its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 and older), veteran status or military service, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
• This includes the prohibition of discrimination, including harassment, against any employee, applicant for employment, student, or applicant for admission.
• ACC will take steps to ensure that the lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational and vocational programs.