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About the Role
Success Academy seeks a high-impact Campus Safety & Security Manager to lead daily safety operations at its flagship Bronx K-12 Campus. This role oversees physical security, emergency preparedness, contracted personnel, and safety technology across a complex K-12 campus, fostering a proactive safety culture rooted in operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead all campus safety functions, including physical security, emergency readiness, incident response, and traffic safety.
- Build a shared culture of safety while maintaining clear personal accountability for all campus systems.
- Provide day-to-day oversight of campus safety and security during and after school hours.
- Optimize the campus security ecosystem (CCTV, access control, intrusion detection and alerting, visitor management) through rigorous monitoring, testing, and continuous improvement.
- Manage emergency response protocols, drills, and team training to ensure 100% readiness for any scenario.
- Serve as Campus Incident Commander, leading response, communication, and post-incident analysis to drive corrective actions.
- Direct arrival/dismissal operations and coordination with crossing guards to ensure safe scholar transit.
- Supervise contracted security personnel, ensuring performance exceeds contract requirements and aligns with Success Academy standards.
- Collaborate with school operations to deliver impactful safety training for staff, scholars, and families.
- Use data to identify training gaps and ensure all programs remain relevant and effective.
- Evaluate training outcomes to ensure measurable improvements in campus safety literacy.
- Analyze metrics across incident trends, drill performance, and technology reliability to drive data-informed decisions.
- Develop and implement campus safety continuous improvements.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree and 5–8+ years leading security, emergency management, campus operations, or public safety in a complex environment
- Experience supervising contracted security personnel
- Demonstrated success leading emergency preparedness and incident response
- Experience managing security technology systems, including access control and surveillance
- Strong project management and operational leadership skills
- Excellent judgment under pressure
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build strong partnerships across diverse stakeholder groups
- Mission-driven and deeply committed to scholar safety
- Calm, decisive, and highly organized under pressure
- Operationally rigorous with exceptional attention to detail
- Comfortable leading through influence across multiple teams
- Analytical and systems-oriented
- Equally focused on prevention and response
- A builder who continuously improves systems rather than simply maintaining them
Skills
- Physical security
- Emergency preparedness
- Incident response
- Traffic safety
- CCTV
- Access control
- Intrusion detection and alerting
- Visitor management
- Safety & Security School-based Training
- Data analysis
- Project management
- Operational leadership
- Communication skills
- Partnership building
Location
- Bronx
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000—$150,000 USD
Benefits
- Full benefits program
- Opportunities for professional growth
About the Company
- Success Academy Charter Schools is a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools in New York, expanding to Florida.
- We are committed to ensuring children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status.
- When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world.