🛡️ We're Hiring: Campus Security Manager
📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time
💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
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.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Performance will be measured through a combination of security, operational, compliance, and service KPIs, including:
- Campus security incident frequency
- Serious incident rate
- Incident-response time
- Emergency-response performance
- Security patrol compliance
- Access-control compliance
- Unauthorized-access incidents
- CCTV/system availability
- Security equipment uptime
- Security inspection completion
- Corrective-action closure rate
- Security training completion
- Emergency-drill performance
- Security contractor performance
- Visitor-management compliance
- Theft and property-loss rate
- Security-related complaints
- Campus safety satisfaction
- Security-budget performance
- Regulatory compliance
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate should have strong experience in campus security, corporate security, educational security, facility security, law enforcement, emergency management, or a related discipline.
Experience working within universities, colleges, schools, large campuses, hospitals, corporate campuses, residential communities, or other complex facilities would be advantageous.
The candidate should have strong operational leadership capabilities combined with excellent risk-management, emergency-response, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience in security management, campus security, corporate security, facility security, emergency management, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of physical-security principles, access control, surveillance, patrol operations, and incident management.
- Experience managing security personnel and third-party security contractors.
- Strong knowledge of security risk assessments and security planning.
- Experience developing emergency-response plans and conducting security drills.
- Experience coordinating with police, civil defense, emergency services, government authorities, or other external agencies.
- Strong understanding of CCTV, access-control, alarm, visitor-management, and security-monitoring systems.
- Experience managing security operations for large facilities or complex environments.
- Strong incident-investigation and reporting capabilities.
- Experience managing security budgets, vendors, contracts, and operational resources.
- Strong understanding of confidentiality, privacy, and appropriate handling of security information.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and crisis-management skills.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving capabilities under pressure.
- Highly disciplined, observant, proactive, and professional.
- Strong ability to balance security requirements with a positive student, faculty, employee, and visitor experience.
- Ability to manage multiple security priorities and incidents simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently and effectively within a fully remote environment while coordinating with on-site security teams.
- Security-management, emergency-management, first-aid/CPR, or relevant professional certifications are advantageous.
- Experience working within the UAE or wider GCC security environment is highly desirable.