id='p9683_'>Security (Full-Time) JobID: 9683
Position Type:
Security
Date Posted:
5/19/2026
Location:
Proviso West High School
Date Available:
08/04/2026
Closing Date:
Until Filled
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POSITION TITLE: Security Officer
REPORTS TO: Director of Operations / Building Principal
Security Lead
LEVEL: Educational Support Personnel
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required Experience or Training
High school diploma or equivalent; 20 Hr Security training; evidence of security experience
Preferred Experience or Training
PERC Card; post high school education
Special Requirements of the Position
Work year consists of one hundred eighty-five (185) days, between four (4) and eight (8) hours per day, excluding lunch. Days and hours of work are administratively assigned.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain the confidentiality of all school-related matters
- Conduct school related business in a professional manner
- Maintain a professional attitude while disciplining students
- Work well under pressure
- Maintain a strong attendance record
- Gain understanding of school procedures
- Provide general hall supervision to ensure appropriate student behavior
- Check all students/adults in the halls for proper identification (ID, Visitor's Pass, etc.)
- Circulate throughout assigned area, securing hallways, stairways, washrooms, and locker rooms
- Intervene to de-escalate negative behavior
- Check that all exterior doors are locked
- Provide administrator and teacher assistance
- Escort students from classrooms to deans', guidance counselors', and police counselors' offices
- Respond to emergency call buttons, fire alarms, or teacher requests as needed
- Provide study hall management
- Record attendance in logs and submit scantron slips to data processing
- Monitor appropriate student behavior conducive to a study environment
- Provide cafeteria direction
- Check student Ids for appropriate lunch period attendance
- Regulate lunch line, ensuring continual movement and proper behavior
- Circulate throughout student cafeteria during lunch hours, monitoring appropriate student behavior and maintaining a clean area
- Provide exterior campus surveillance
- Lock and unlock parking lot gates according to schedule
- Circulate in school van throughout parking lots, regulating vehicle traffic and securing safety of foot traffic at beginning and ending of school day
- Monitor student truancy during the school day
- Secure safety of staff and student cars parked in lots throughout the school day
- Assist with student embarkation at bus stop at close of school day
- Ensure that all exterior building doors are locked
- Provide supervision at extracurricular events
- Assist with services of the school store and ID center
- Photograph and produce student and faculty IDs
- Other related duties as required or assigned by administration