Security Operations and Liaison Officer (Callaghan)

**Delivering safe, customer-focused security services across our campuses**:

- ** Varied and meaningful work where no two days are the same.**:

- ** Engage with a diverse community and directly contribute to student wellbeing**

Join the University of Newcastle’s Security Team and play a hands-on role in creating a safe, welcoming environment for our students, staff and visitors. This is a **customer-focused position** with plenty of variety
- from auditing contracts and responding to incidents, to engaging with students in our student living precincts and building strong stakeholder relationships.

**What you’ll do**:

- Deliver proactive security services across all campuses
- Support emergency and critical incident responses
- Follow up and provide support to victims of incidents
- Lead safety and engagement initiatives in Student Living precincts
- Assess risks and contribute to preventative security strategies
- Travel between campuses to provide consistent support

**What we’re looking for**:

- Customer-centric with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
- Confident in **a**ssessing security risks and contributing to crime prevention strategies.
- Skilled at working with diverse groups and large crowds, with a calm and forward-thinking approach.
- A natural communicator who can balance operational duties with building strong community relationships.
- A 2A security licence or willingness to obtain

This full-time position is a continuing role at a HEW 6 Higher Education Level located at Callaghan Campus.

**About our University**

The University of Newcastle stands as a global leader distinguished by a commitment to equity and excellence. Our vision is to be a world-leading University for our regions and creating a better future for our regions and the globe. Underpinned by this vision and our values of excellence, equity, engagement and sustainability, the University of Newcastle’s _Looking Ahead_ Strategic Plan 2020-2025 outlines the University’s commitment to delivering an exceptional student experience and serving our communities.

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**What we offer**

In addition to working for a university that is breaking boundaries, discovering new ways of thinking and cementing a place as a global leader, we offer a range of benefits to our employees to ensure you balance your commitments, stay healthy and work effectively.

These include:

- The remuneration for this position is from $93929-$ 103,641 p.a. + superannuation and is commensurate with skills and experience
- Flexible working arrangements (in line with the University’s Flexible Work Policy
- 17% super and salary packaging
- Additional University Holiday days, generous personal leave and parental leave, annual leave loading and additional purchased leave scheme
- Discounts in private health insurance, gym memberships, software, travel and more
- Wellbeing programs

**Your next steps**
- Your resume
- A statement addressing the Essential Criteria listed below demonstrating your qualifications and experience with examples.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or substantial experience in relevant areas (such as security, crime prevention, law enforcement, and related environments) and hold or a willingness to obtain a NSW 2A Security License issued under the provisions of the Security Industry Act as well as a current NSW Class C Driver’s Licence.
- Capacity to provide excellent client relationship management and communicate with internal and external stakeholders across all levels of the organisation, ensuring professional, sustainable and effective working relationships are built.
- Demonstrated experience relevant to crime prevention, risk management, security and related areas developed in a high-pressured public environment.
- Highly developed analytical skills with attention to detail with a proven ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems.
- Demonstrated experience in the comprehensive analysis of safety, security and related issues, providing detailed and relevant reports and recommendations affecting changes in policy and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience in addressing emergencies and critical incidents within a complex multi-campus university setting or similar.
- Highly organised and methodical in approach with an excellent approach to detail as well a high level of initiative.
- Demonstrated ability to strengthen and integrate Equity and Diversity, Health and Safety, WHS principles and the capacity to implement relevant plans and policies.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA
- Previous experience working with a large Security team within a complex, multi
- campus university environment

Please upload your Cover Letter and response to the requested Criteria as one PDF document.

Your Cover Letter and Response to the Essential Criteria should not exceed 4 pages (approximately 2,000 words).

**Closing date: Sunday 7**th** September 2025 11:59pm AEST**

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