Head of Community Safety & Security Services

Cardiff University is seeking a Head of Community Safety & Security Services to lead and develop our Community Safety and Security Service across our large, diverse campus and community.

This exciting new role will ensure the safety and wellbeing of students, staff, and visitors by ensuring provision of a service that is highly customer centric, accessible, and committed to the university’s Values (Collaboration, Consistency & Excellence, Learning, Efficiency, Inclusion) and associated Behaviours. It will play a key supporting role in delivery of university strategy ‘Our future, together’.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their commitment to continuous service improvement and excellence, as well as demonstrating innovation, commitment to and knowledge of the industry / sector. They will be a motivational and inspiring leader, able to support team members at all levels through change and will be supported by an experienced and committed team.

Cardiff University offers excellent working conditions and benefits including:

• Generous annual leave (37 days)
• Membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)
• Use of the university’s leisure and cultural facilities
• Access of our Employee Assistance Programme
• 35 hour working week

Due to the nature of the service (operating 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year), the successful candidate will require flexibility to deal with emergencies outside of standard operating hours, including Bank holidays and university shutdown periods.

This is an office-based role with frequent on-campus presence for stakeholder engagement and incident response.

Appointment will be subject to a successful basic DBS check.
 
This is a full-time, open-ended position, available immediately.
 
Salary: £60,907 per annum (Grade 8) with 3 annual increments up to £66,537 per annum.

If you’d like and informal chat about the role, please email David Manfield, Deputy Director of Estates (Soft FM):  Manfielddc@cardiff.ac.uk to arrange a mutually convenient time.
 
IMPORTANT: The Person Specification is split into 2 sections: essential and desirable. Please demonstrate clearly how you meet all of the essential criteria. Where possible you should give examples of how, when and where you have used your experience, knowledge, specific skills and abilities to match those required for this particular job role.
 
Please ensure that you communicate this fully by developing a supporting statement, listing ALL OF THE CRITERIA and commenting against each one as to how you meet them.
 
This will need to be completed before you begin your online application as you will be required to upload it. When uploading the supporting statement the document title needs to read “supporting statement” and should also detail the post reference number BR.

Closing date: Thursday, 15 May 2025
  
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

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