Senior Security Operations & Incident Response Coordinator

La Trobe University; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

La Trobe University seeks a Senior Coordinator of Security Operations and Incident Response to oversee security services across its campuses, including incident and emergency response, event security readiness, and training. Based at Melbourne’s Bundoora campus, the role requires travel to other sites and strong stakeholder management.

You will lead security operations in a complex, multi-site environment, maintain operational readiness, and ensure effective reporting and assurance activities.

Qualifications

• A degree, extensive management expertise and supporting experience, or postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience, or an equivalent alternate combination of relevant knowledge, training, and/or experience.
• Demonstrated security and safety knowledge and proven operational oversight and experience in a complex, multi-site working environment.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating security operations, incident response, emergency response and operational readiness in an active or 24/7 environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing or monitoring outsourced security services, service-level requirements, contractor performance and key performance indicators.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and review operational procedures, response plans, training, exercises, and assurance activities.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse incident information, investigations, trends, and patterns and use operational data to provide initiative-taking recommendations and management briefings.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day security services across campuses and sites.
• Oversee incident and emergency response, event-security readiness, procedures, training and reporting.
• Provide operational assurance and testing of security plans and procedures.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Emergency response

Stakeholder management

24/7 operations

Security systems

Education

Degree or higher qualifications

Tools

Gallagher Command Centre

Milestone CCTV

Job description

La Trobe University seeks a Senior Coordinator of Security Operations and Incident Response to oversee security services across its campuses, including incident and emergency response, event security readiness, and training. Based at Melbourne’s Bundoora campus, the role requires travel to other sites and strong stakeholder management.

You will lead security operations in a complex, multi-site environment, maintain operational readiness, and ensure effective reporting and assurance activities.