School Security Associate (SSA)

Richland County School District One; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Richland County School District One in Columbia, South Carolina seeks a School Security Associate to support safety operations across campus. You will work under the director of security and emergency services, monitor cameras, assist with drills, and help maintain a secure learning environment.

The role requires a high school diploma and 3 years related experience, and involves patrols, traffic control, incident reporting, and collaboration with staff and law enforcement.

Qualifications

• Requires high school diploma and 3 years in security, law enforcement, or related field.
• Must be at least 21 years old.

Responsibilities

• Advises principal of significant disturbances and safety concerns.
• Patrols perimeter, grounds and interior to deter vandalism and unsafe behavior.
• Monitors security cameras and detectors to identify potential threats.
• Assists with bus and traffic flow and student supervision.
• Assists with safety drills, emergency planning and safety programs.
• Investigates discipline code violations on buses.
• Maintains communications with residents and local public safety.
• Addresses unauthorized persons and calls police when needed.

Job description

School Security Associate (SSA)

Richland County School District One

Columbia, South Carolina

Job Details

Job ID: 5956104

Application Deadline: Posted until filled

Posted: Oct 09, 2026 3:25 PM (UTC)

Job Description

Richland County School District One, South Carolina Classification Description

Classification Title: School Security Associate (SSA) 200 days FLSA: Non-Exempt Salary Range: $30,437.48 - $44,896.68 Multiple positions

General Statement of Job: Under direct supervision of the Director of Security and Emergency Services and the principal, works with school administrators, school, district personnel and public safety officials to help create and maintain a positive, caring, reasonably safe and effective learning environment. Reports to the Director of Security and Emergency Services.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities: Essential Functions: Advises the school principal of significant disturbances, hazardous conditions, unsafe procedures and other serious security matters. Suggests ways to enhance school safety, security and emergency preparedness. Practices situational awareness to help detect students who are in distress as well as identify and address potentially dangerous conditions, situations and individuals. Patrols the school's perimeter, grounds and interior areas providing a high degree of visibility in order to help prevent trespassing, criminal activity, potentially dangerous behaviors, substance abuse, acts of self-harm and school violence. Monitors security cameras, weapon detectors, other safety and security equipment to help detect criminal activity and potential dangerous behaviors and/or situations. Works with school administrators, faculty and support staff to help create and maintain active and effective student supervision. Assists with maintaining proper student conduct, orderliness and security during breakfast and lunch periods when directed by school administrators. Helps prevent and addresses bullying, harassment and intimidation of students, staff and visitors. Helps reduce potential physical conflicts among students using proactive intervention strategies by monitoring student interactions. Actively supervises bus and automobile parking and pedestrian and vehicle traffic patterns on school property. Helps administrators develop and implement ways to improve parking and traffic flow while promoting enhanced safety for pedestrians and vehicle occupants. Maintains effective communications with school bus drivers regarding student behavior and safety concerns. Assists with investigating discipline code violations occurring on school buses. Assists with student threat assessments if requested to do so by the director, school administrators, or security manager. Discusses age and developmentally appropriate safety, security and emergency preparedness information with students as requested. Maintains open communications with residents and business establishments in the vicinity of the schools' campus to enhance the safety and security of the school and to foster their willingness to cooperate with school and public safety personnel in maintaining a safer school environment. Complies with all district policies and procedures, state, and federal laws. Works in collaboration with administrators, support staff and public safety officials to help improve the level of emergency preparedness among staff and students. Assists with organizing and administering school safety, security and emergency preparedness awareness programs, as assigned. Examples include but are not limited to fire drills, lockdown drills, reverse evacuation procedures, emergency evacuation procedures, emergency communications protocols and other emergency protective actions. Assists with school safety, security and emergency preparedness assessments as directed by the director, school administrators and/or security manager. Addresses unauthorized person and questions them as necessary, routes or detains them or calls police for assistance.

Additional Duties: May conduct general office duties as assigned, including but not limited to retrieving and entering information into the computer. Performs related duties as required.

Minimum Education and Training: Requires high school diploma, 3 years of experience in a field related to the title of the position, including but not limited to, security, law enforcement, the department of juvenile justice, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Must be at least twenty-one years of age.

Minimum Qualifications and Standards Required: Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a computer and two-way radio. Must be able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Physical demands are in excess of those for sedentary work; must be able to remain on feet for extended periods of time. Must be able to lift/carry weights of five to ten pounds. Must be able to use a variety of verbal and physical skills and techniques to protect self and others from individuals who are non-compliant, aggressive, and who may pose a risk to themselves or others. Must be able to operate a motor vehicle or golf cart, patrol a school campus on foot or bike, climb stairs, and scale a six-foot chain link fence.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions to students and receiving assignments and/or directions from supervisors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of policy and procedure manuals, class schedules, etc. Requires the ability to record events accurately. Must be able to speak with clarity, voice control and confidence and to articulate information to others.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Requires the ability to make independent judgments in the absence of supervisor; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine time.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using communications machinery.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items including computer keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under minimal levels of stress when confronting an emergency situations. The worker may be subject to danger or risk to a moderate degree.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to hear and understand communications through a telephone.

Position Type: Full-time

Job Categories: Support Staff > Safety/Security

Contact Information

• Latoya Curry
• 1616 Richland Street
• Columbia, South Carolina 29201
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]