Student Jobs

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Student security covers the following hours during the Fall semester on a regular basis

Sunday 11:30am-11:30pm; Monday 4pm-11:30pm

Occasional opportunities to sub on other afternoons/weekends

Required:
1) Comfort in working independently to ensure people and spaces are safe
2) Excellent sense of judgement
3) Can stay alert at all times
4) Willingness to learn policies, and enforce when necessary
5) Excellent communication skills

Preferred:
1) Customer service experience
2) Security/library experience not required, but appreciated
3) Bystander intervention/de-escalation skills

We are looking for a candidate who is resilient, approachable, and comfortable with uncomfortable situations. The applicant must be assertive in a respectful manner when needed. Student security guards are responsible for observing, deterring, and reporting violations of library, university, and state laws and regulations. Daily duties for this position include, but are not limited to, opening the building, clearing the library of patrons, securing the facility at closing, as well as assisting patrons with wayfinding and service-related questions. The position requires initiative, self-direction, attention to detail, and an ability to employ tact and discretion on sensitive and/ or stressful situations.

Please write a cover letter explaining why are qualified and why you are interested in this position.

Tips on how to write a cover letter available here: https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/coverletters/

Must be able to move efficiently through the 13-floor, 350k square-foot facility and respond quickly and calmly to developing situations. Must be able to occasionally move heavy objects.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

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Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

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Accommodation Statement:

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