State School Safety Coordinator

State-of-Missour; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Generous leave and holiday time

Health insurance eligibility

Job summary

State of Missouri is seeking a State School Safety Coordinator to lead centralized, statewide school safety initiatives. The role operates as a hub within the Department of Public Safety to align resources across districts, state agencies, and partners to build a cohesive safety framework for urban, suburban, and rural communities.

The position emphasizes gap analyses, policy recommendations, grant coordination, and stakeholder engagement across Missouri, with travel to districts for assessments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Criminal Justice, Emergency Management, Public Administration, Homeland Security, Education Administration, or closely related field.
• 4–6+ years of progressively responsible experience in school safety planning, emergency management, law enforcement administration, threat assessment, or public policy coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead statewide school safety initiatives and serve as central operational leader across Missouri.
• Conduct statewide gap analyses of security, threat assessment, and emergency preparedness.
• Synthesize initiatives into a unified statewide safety framework and benchmark against best practices.
• Identify legislative gaps and propose updates and policy recommendations.
• Assist districts in matching planning guides, equipment programs, and expert consultation.
• Track grants and disseminate opportunities for school safety enhancements.
• Maintain a statewide resource repository and liaise with emergency management and first responders.
• Disseminate model safety plans, SGs, and training materials; raise awareness through workshops and webinars.

Job description

Job Location: This position will be located in Jefferson City, MO.

Why you’ll love this position:

The State School Safety Coordinator will serve as the central operational leader responsible for centralizing, aligning, and elevating multi-faceted school safety initiatives across Missouri. Operating as a centralized hub within the Department of Public Safety (DPS), this role will assist in addressing operational silos across local school districts, state executive departments, la w enforcement entities, federal partners, and private organizations to build a cohesive, statewide school safety framework tailored to urban, suburban, and rural communities.

• Conduct statewide gap analyses evaluating physical security, behavioral threat assessment protocols, and emergency preparedness.
• Synthesize disparate school safety initiatives into a unified state safety framework.
• Perform state school safety benchmarking against national best practices.
• Identify legislative and regulatory gaps and propose statutory updates and policy recommendations.
• Assist in assessing individual district needs and match them directly with appropriate planning guides, equipment programs, and expert consultation.
• Track emerging school safety grants and package complex grant requirements into actionable guidance.
• Identify, catalog, and publicize federal, state, and private grant opportunities for school safety enhancements.
• Build, maintain, and curate an accessible statewide resource repository for educators, law enforcement, first responders, and mental health professionals. Continuously scan, evaluate, and synthesize disparate resources across federal agencies, state departments and national safety associations into a unified, user-friendly state repository.
• Maintain active liaison channels with emergency management directors, behavioral health agencies, and first responder associations to bring specialized community-level safety resources directly into school systems.
• Disseminate model safety plans, standard operating guidelines, and training materials.
• Raise statewide awareness through stakeholder workshops, webinars, and regional working groups.
• Develop and disseminate guidance on medical emergency response, including the creation of Cardiac Emergency Response Plans and the implementation of state-mandated CPR training programs.
• Provide model policies and guidance to school districts on safety-adjacent administrative issues, such as the mandated development of policies for electronic communication devices.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Planning, developing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating various school safety programs.
• Coordinating with fusion centers and law enforcement partners for threat information and early warning as it relates to school safety threats.
• Preparing, maintaining, and submitting program progress, status, and statistical assessments.
• Deep understanding of All-Hazards emergency planning, NIMS/ICS protocols, and behavioral threat assessment models.
• Proven grant management, legislative research, and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Ability to develop effective professional and interpersonal relationships with peers and colleagues in the school safety and homeland security community.
• Ability to train small and large audiences in classroom settings.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, in a manner that is targeted to and meets the needs of diverse audiences, including senior-level officials.
• Ability to logically analyze, synthesize, and judge information, as well as the demonstrated ability to review and incorporate multiple sources of information in performing assignments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Criminal Justice, Emergency Management, Public Administration, Homeland Security, Education Administration, or a closely related field is preferred.
• 4–6+ years of progressively responsible experience in school safety planning, emergency management, law enforcement administration, threat assessment, or public policy coordination.
• Travel periodically across Missouri for on-site district assessments, conferences, and stakeholder engagements.

Lack of post‑secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here.

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