School Safety Monitor, Salem High School, Salem Public Schools SY2024-2025 (Anticipated)

About Salem Public Schools, where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4,000 students across our 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged, globally connected, and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging, equity, and opportunity in everything we do. Over the next three years (2023-2026), we are committed to the work outlined by the four core priorities in our strategic plan: 1) Elevate Learning; 2) Empower Educators; 3) Center Belonging; and 4) Strengthen Our Foundation. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students, regardless of ability, economic status, gender/gender identity, language, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other backgrounds. Applicants who have experience working in urban schools and settings and are bilingual are strongly encouraged to apply.

What You’ll Do:

Under the direction of the Principal, the School Safety Monitor is responsible for providing daily security for the school building and property and ensures the safety and security of students, staff, building and grounds. This position patrols school property, monitors all common areas within the building, and alerts administration of all safety and security concerns.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitors for vandalism, theft and trespassing on school property
• Informs school administration of unauthorized personnel on campus
• Monitors students for drug, alcohol, and tobacco use
• Monitors for student truancy
• Informs school administration of incidents
• Compiles information and completes associated reports
• Submits reports to school administrators
• Monitors school property for improper student behavior
• Prepares associated referral reports for school administration
• Secures school building entrances, exits and appropriate offices
• Monitors key access to school building and offices
• Monitors students leaving the building during school hours to ensure they have appropriate authorization
• Determines safety or security issues
• Reports safety and security issues to school administrators
• Implement student behavior plans as directed
• Attends district training sessions, district meetings, or conferences
• Works closely with and through building administrators concerning student behavioral issues and policy interpretations

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic, caring relationships with colleagues, students, and families – You build strong relationships across students, families, and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from mistakes and challenges and uses them as opportunities for professional development. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Qualifications:

• Oral and written communication skills
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with school staff, students, and the public
• Communicating and enforcing school policies and procedures
• Applying judgment when dealing with angry, hostile or uncooperative individuals
• Compiling information and preparing reports
• Securing school building
• Monitoring school building, grounds and property
• Monitoring student behavior
• Physical Requirements: Must be able to stand, sit run, stoop, crawl, kneel, reach, twist, push in a stationary position 50 percent of the time
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with school staff, students, and the public
• Communicating and enforcing school policies and procedures
• Applying judgment when dealing with angry, hostile or uncooperative individuals
• Compiling information and preparing reports
• Securing school building
• Monitoring school building, grounds, and property
• Monitoring student behavior
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation