Part-Time Campus Police Officer

Posting Details

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number SFA354P Open Date 08/01/2024 Close Date Open Until Filled Yes Special Instructions to Applicants

Position Information

Job Title Part-Time Campus Police Officer Status Part Time FTE .725 Classification Title Classified Grade C Job Summary

The Schoolcraft College Police Department is a community-oriented agency, committed to delivering professional police services while providing a safe physical environment for the campus populations to engage in learning and community activities. Police Officers help to ensure this mission by providing for the safety and welfare of persons on the College campuses, protecting College assets, and seeking compliance with College policy.

Schoolcraft is a comprehensive, open-door, community-based college. The mission of the College is to provide a transformational learning experience designed to increase the capacity of individuals and groups to achieve intellectual, social, and economic goals.

Required Qualifications

• Must have already graduated from a Police Academy.
• Ability to be licensed as a police officer through the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES). *
• Ability to be licensed as a Medical First Responder (MFR).
• Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Physical ability necessary to perform the duties of police officer.
• Demonstrated ability to read and understand routine orders, write clear and comprehensive reports, and to articulate them.
• Working knowledge of state laws, city ordinances, familiarity with first aid, as well as fire prevention and control techniques.
• Ability to pass stringent physical exam, psychological evaluation, fingerprint check and extensive background investigation.
• Ability to take charge of a situation and take proper law enforcement action when necessary.
• Ability to train, qualify and carry various firearms, TASER, pepper spray and handcuffs.
• No dependency on alcohol or any other drug not prescribed by an attending physician.
• No felony convictions.
• Possession of valid operator's license.
• MCOLES license must be maintained through the duration of employment.

MFR license must be received within one year.

Preferred Qualifications Physical Demands

Schoolcraft College is an AA/EEO Employer.

• In-Person: This position requires the employee to be onsite at Schoolcraft College.
• Writing Skills: Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Communication Skills: Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from prospective and current employees, and groups of managers.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, taste or smell and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift up to 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work in outdoor weather conditions. The employee may occasionally work near moving mechanical parts, work in wet/humid or extreme heat, work around fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, vibration, and risk of electric shock.
• Noise Level: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Hours Day, Afternoon, Midnight, weekend, holiday shifts up to 29 hours per week, maximum Salary Pay Range is $19.33-$30.22 per hour

Job Duties

Job Duty Name 1 Description of Job Duty

Provides CPR, first aid, or transportation in response to medical emergencies.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 2 Description of Job Duty

Protects College property from fire, theft, destruction, and illegal entry.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 3 Description of Job Duty

Patrols College buildings and grounds by vehicle, bicycle, or on foot.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 4 Description of Job Duty

Enforces traffic and parking regulations, state laws and municipal ordinances that apply to the College, and seeks compliance with College policy.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 5 Description of Job Duty

Investigates crimes, accidents, and dangerous campus conditions.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 6 Description of Job Duty

Makes arrests for violations of criminal law and when appropriate, uses reasonable force in doing so.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 7 Description of Job Duty

Prepares concise written and computer generated reports.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 8 Description of Job Duty

Opens and locks doors, sets and disarms alarm systems, operates radio and phone systems, transfer funds, etc.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 9 Description of Job Duty

Logs daily activities.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 10 Description of Job Duty

Interacts with students and staff regularly to maintain good relationships and provide physical security presence.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time Job Duty Name 11 Description of Job Duty

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Essential Duty? No Percentage Of Time

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• • Have you already graduated from a Police Academy?

• Yes

• No

• Are you currently licensed or licensable as a police officer through the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES)? An applicant may not be currently licensed, however they can still be licensable if they are a retired police officer and been retired for more than two years or a currently licensed out-of-state police officer, but licensed in the state of Michigan

• Yes

• No

Documents Needed To Apply

Required Documents

• Resume

Optional Documents

• Cover Letter
• Transcript 1
• Letter of Recommendation
• Other 1
• Transcript 2