Personal Safety and Community Resilience Specialist
About the role
Union/Affiliation:
Administrative and Professional Staff (APSA)
Pay range:
$92,654 to $110,544 annually
SFU Department Descr:
Campus Public Safety
Position Grade:
11
of openings:
1
Biweekly Hours:
72
Who We Are
Simon Fraser University is a leading research university, advancing an inclusive and sustainable future. Our purpose – the essence of SFU – is to create and connect knowledge, learning and community for deeper understanding and meaningful impact. We are committed to fostering excellence, innovation, belonging and community in all that we do.
Campus Public Safety resides within Safety & Risk Services, a division with an overarching mandate to support excellence in learning, teaching and research for the university community through collaboratively facilitating and advancing world leading standards and practices in safety, security, institutional resilience, and the management of risk and crises.
About the Role
The new Personal Safety and Community Resilience Specialist role presents an opportunity to lead positive impact in both capacity building and harm prevention across all three campuses. As a trusted resource for confidential consultations, preliminary risk assessments, and timely intervention, the Specialist benefits from working across the University environment in collaboration with Responsible Offices and partners to mitigate evolving risks. The role designs and delivers certificate-granting training and workshops on suicide prevention, first aid, de-escalation, and safer campus communities, while also leading strategic engagement initiatives, ambassador programs, and partnerships that build safety literacy, foster shared responsibility, and ensure services remain responsive to evolving community needs.
The successful candidate is a conscientious leader with exceptional rapport building skills marked by professional judgment and discretion. The ideal candidate has demonstrated their ability to deeply understand the complex, dynamic needs within personal safety services, holistic safety training and community resiliency programming across the entirety of a Canadian research university ecosystem.
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About Simon Fraser University
As Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes change-makers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities – Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey – SFU has eight faculties that deliver 193 undergraduate degree programs and 127 graduate degree programs to more than 35,000 students. The university now boasts more than 160,000 alumni residing in 143 countries.
Personal Safety and Community Resilience Specialist
About the role
Union/Affiliation:
Administrative and Professional Staff (APSA)
Pay range:
$92,654 to $110,544 annually
SFU Department Descr:
Campus Public Safety
Position Grade:
11
of openings:
1
Biweekly Hours:
72
Who We Are
Simon Fraser University is a leading research university, advancing an inclusive and sustainable future. Our purpose – the essence of SFU – is to create and connect knowledge, learning and community for deeper understanding and meaningful impact. We are committed to fostering excellence, innovation, belonging and community in all that we do.
Campus Public Safety resides within Safety & Risk Services, a division with an overarching mandate to support excellence in learning, teaching and research for the university community through collaboratively facilitating and advancing world leading standards and practices in safety, security, institutional resilience, and the management of risk and crises.
About the Role
The new Personal Safety and Community Resilience Specialist role presents an opportunity to lead positive impact in both capacity building and harm prevention across all three campuses. As a trusted resource for confidential consultations, preliminary risk assessments, and timely intervention, the Specialist benefits from working across the University environment in collaboration with Responsible Offices and partners to mitigate evolving risks. The role designs and delivers certificate-granting training and workshops on suicide prevention, first aid, de-escalation, and safer campus communities, while also leading strategic engagement initiatives, ambassador programs, and partnerships that build safety literacy, foster shared responsibility, and ensure services remain responsive to evolving community needs.
The successful candidate is a conscientious leader with exceptional rapport building skills marked by professional judgment and discretion. The ideal candidate has demonstrated their ability to deeply understand the complex, dynamic needs within personal safety services, holistic safety training and community resiliency programming across the entirety of a Canadian research university ecosystem.
Full
About Simon Fraser University
As Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes change-makers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities – Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey – SFU has eight faculties that deliver 193 undergraduate degree programs and 127 graduate degree programs to more than 35,000 students. The university now boasts more than 160,000 alumni residing in 143 countries.