Campus Security Officer

University of Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK university is seeking a Campus Security Officer to enhance its Estates & Facilities Management Team. This role involves monitoring security and ensuring safety across multiple campuses. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a passion for customer service, helping create a secure environment for students and staff. This position offers excellent career development opportunities and benefits including a local government pension and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Local government pension scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Personal development opportunities

Access to sports facilities and activities

Qualifications

• Ability to engage with diverse range of individuals.
• Desire to deliver excellent service in challenging environments.
• Willingness to help others and provide support.

Responsibilities

• Monitor CCTV network and provide visible presence across campuses.
• Respond to security incidents and provide assistance as needed.
• Contribute to creating a safe environment during university events.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving

Team player

Customer service focus

Job description

Estate and Facilities Management

Location: Brighton - City Campus, Moulsecoomb and Falmer Salary: £25,448 to £26,338 per annum Closing Date: Friday 08 August 2025 Reference: ES8377-25-152

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving university and enhance its Estates & Facilities Management Team (EFM). As part of the EFM Team you will be supporting a community of over 18,000 students and 2,300 staff based on campuses in Brighton.

The Campus Security Team is committed to building a diverse team of professionals whose role it is to create a safe and secure environment for students, staff and visitors, a place where everyone feels safe and welcome.

In the role of Campus Security Officer, you will be part of a wider team that provides a security service across multiple campuses 24-hours a day, 365-days a year to meet the needs of a modern University community. We provide a friendly and high visibility presence across the estate to help keep all our community and assets safe and secure. We regularly contribute at events to promote our team, encourage personal safety and to create an environment where everyone feels safe.

The responsibilities of the role will include working in the security control room and monitoring the CCTV network, providing a visible presence and being a mobile response across all campuses. You will use proactive and responsive security methods to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive service, which goes beyond the traditional security standards and focuses on customer service.

To Succeed In This Role, You Will Have

• Excellent communication skills and be a problem solver who is professionally curious and has the ability to engage with a diverse range of students, staff and stakeholders to grow a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• A professional resilience and a desire to deliver an excellent service in challenging and often complex circumstances and environments.
• The ability to be a team player who embraces diversity and inclusivity, a person who will be willing to go the extra mile to make a difference and help someone in need of support.
• Security experience or qualifications is preferred but not essential, the university will support you with completing SIA (Security Industry Authority) training.
  
  

In return we offer excellent benefits as well as this being a good career development opportunity. We have excellent rewards including a local government pension scheme (LGPS), generous holiday entitlement and personal development as well as sports facilities and activities.

We particularly encourage female applicants and all those from Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The university is underrepresented by these groups for this position.

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Job Description

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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