Location: Metropolitan New York, NY, United States
Work Model: Hybrid; limited travel
Relocation: No relocation; local candidates preferred.
Summary / Overview
Security Management Resources® has been selected by a nonprofit organization based in the metropolitan New York City area to identify its next Director of Security and Protective Services. This hands-on leader will establish organizational safeguards, manage security operations, and prepare employees and leadership to address threats, emergencies, and risks associated with public-facing work.
The ideal candidate has managed a substantial security function and can move readily between long-term planning and immediate operational needs. A service-oriented leader, effective communicator, and decisive problem solver, this individual will bring investigative rigor, practical protective experience, and an approach that earns confidence across a diverse organization.
Responsibilities
• Build a cohesive security program with clear priorities, accountability, policies, and measures of progress.
• Keep office security operations reliable across locations through effective vendor oversight, access procedures, monitoring, and response arrangements.
• Establish a disciplined threat-management process that incorporates protective intelligence, escalation indicators, and assessment of criminal, extremist, and targeted violence risks.
• Arrange appropriate protection for leadership, employees, travel, and events, matching the security presence to the exposure.
• Select and improve physical security technologies and facility safeguards, working with internal stakeholders on integration and related security concerns.
• Prepare the organization for emergencies through actionable plans, exercises, coordinated response, and documented lessons learned.
• Coordinate investigations, personnel security practices, and sensitive information safeguards with Human Resources and legal counsel.
• Give executives clear recommendations and maintain productive connections with law enforcement, building management, vendors, and security partners.
• Develop a collaborative security culture that reflects the organization’s purpose and respects differing perspectives.
Requirements, Skills, and Competencies
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in security studies, security administration, security management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of increasingly responsible experience in security or related discipline, with progression into leadership or program management roles.
• Previous responsibility for a security department or organization-wide program encompassing strategy, operations, policies, vendors, or multiple locations.
• Hands-on knowledge of facility security, access control, surveillance, incident response, security provider management, and protective operations.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging intelligence to investigate, assess, and manage threats to individuals, workplaces, or events.
• A record of creating or improving emergency plans, directing or supporting crisis response, and implementing post-incident corrective actions.
• Able to meet in-person obligations and accommodate travel and flexible on-call schedules.
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