The Ubuntu Life mission is 'Connect to Empower.'​ When we first came to Maai Mahiu, Kenya, we found a community of children with special needs and their mothers being mistreated and secluded. The stigma and lack of understanding surrounding special needs in Kenya means extremely limited access to essential services such as education, affordable healthcare, physical rehabilitation, and vocational training.

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The main purpose of this role is to ensure the overall safety and security of the Foundation. The security team plays a critical role in the Foundation’s culture and climate. A calm, structured, and positive learning environment is the top priority for the security team. Security personnel actively engage in supporting children for them to be successful in the classroom and school community.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Fulfill duties associated with the post assigned as part of the Foundation’s comprehensive security plan; maintain an orderly post and remain at the post at all times unless otherwise directed by a supervisor.
• Actively respond to incidents, fights, or other issues in the school that threaten the safety of students, staff, and/or guests utilizing Safety Care skills up to and including momentary physical intervention if warranted by the safety risk.
• Patrol (foot or mobile) and monitor school property for unauthorized persons. If needed, redirect or escort from the property.
• Report unusual activity or suspicions of safety issues to the Security Supervisor or administration in a timely fashion.
• Complete proper documentation related to incident reports and misconduct reports.
• Produce and deliver reports to show progress against key metrics.
• Monitor school grounds and school entrances to ensure only authorized personnel and authorized visitors access the school; if assigned to the main entrance, ensure all guests follow visitor protocol and triage visitor requests.
• Actively participate in professional development training to ensure ongoing growth and to advance skills.
• Build positive and professional relationships with students and leverage those relationships to establish and maintain productive and safe learning environments and common areas of the building.
• Exercise dignity and respect when interacting with students at all times.
• Serve as a primary participant in emergency response during crises.
• Key adherence to SOP and company policies.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor.

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• Fulfill duties associated with the post assigned as part of the Foundation’s comprehensive security plan; maintain an orderly post and remain at the post at all times unless otherwise directed by a supervisor.
• Actively respond to incidents, fights, or other issues in the school that threaten the safety of students, staff, and/or guests utilizing Safety Care skills up to and including momentary physical intervention if warranted by the safety risk.
• Patrol (foot or mobile) and monitor school property for unauthorized persons. If needed, redirect or escort from the property.
• Report unusual activity or suspicions of safety issues to the Security Supervisor or administration in a timely fashion.
• Complete proper documentation related to incident reports and misconduct reports.
• Produce and deliver reports to show progress against key metrics.
• Monitor school grounds and school entrances to ensure only authorized personnel and authorized visitors access the school; if assigned to the main entrance, ensure all guests follow visitor protocol and triage visitor requests.
• Actively participate in professional development training to ensure ongoing growth and to advance skills.
• Build positive and professional relationships with students and leverage those relationships to establish and maintain productive and safe learning environments and common areas of the building.
• Exercise dignity and respect when interacting with students at all times.
• Serve as a primary participant in emergency response during crises.
• Key adherence to SOP and company policies.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor.