Safer Community Officers - Kalgoorlie

Job Reference: 1692770

An Exciting Opportunity for 2027!

With our new in-house Safer Community service set to launch in early 2027, now is the perfect time to explore your next career opportunity with Curtin University. We're recruiting ahead of this exciting transition, giving successful candidates the opportunity to join a newly established team and help shape the future of our Safer Community service at the Kalgoorlie Campus.
 
About the Role
 
We are seeking Safer Community Officers to join Curtin University as we establish our in-house Safer Community service at the Kalgoorlie Campus.
  
As a Safer Community Officer, you will provide a visible, approachable and reassuring presence across campus, supporting the safety, security and wellbeing of students, staff and visitors.
  
While security is an important part of the role, Curtin’s Safer Community approach goes further. You will combine proactive patrols and incident response with strong customer service, early intervention and wellbeing support.
  
No two shifts will be quite the same. You may be responding to a safety or security incident, supporting someone experiencing distress, providing a safety escort, assisting with events, liaising with emergency services or simply being a trusted and visible point of contact for members of the campus community.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Patrol campus on foot, bicycle and vehicle.
• Provide safety escorts and an approachable point of contact.
• Respond to incidents and assist emergency services.
• Triage wellbeing concerns and connect people with support.
• Record incidents and assist with events and traffic management.

Skills & Experience:

• Certificate II in Security Operations from a recognised provider.
• Current Western Australian driver’s licence and Senior First Aid certificate.
• Strong communication and customer-service skills.
• Responds sensitively to people from diverse backgrounds.
• Available for an operational shift roster and fit for patrol duties.

Mental Health First Aid training is desirable.
 
Role Requirements

• Ability to work outside normal office hours and participate in an operational shift roster.
• Successful applicants will be subject to a National Police Clearance and background, integrity and reference checks to Curtin’s satisfaction

Properties Facilities & Development

Curtin’s Properties Facilities & Development team supports the safe, effective and reliable operation of the University’s physical environment. In Kalgoorlie, the team provides facilities and maintenance support across the campus, student accommodation and Curtin’s expanding residential housing portfolio.
  
Working across everything from laboratories and lecture theatres to accommodation and residential properties, you will be exposed to a variety of facilities and specialised environments, while working closely with university staff, contractors and service providers to keep our facilities safe, functional and well maintained.
  
Curtin Kalgoorlie is located in the heart of Western Australia’s historic Goldfields. Home to the renowned WA School of Mines, the campus has a strong community atmosphere and provides the opportunity to live and work in one of Australia’s most important resources regions.
 
What We Offer You

• Competitive remuneration: $69,000–$75,046 (G03) plus 17% superannuation, applicable locality and shift allowances.
• Locality allowance: $2,354 per annum, with increased entitlements for eligible employees with dependants.
• Additional earning opportunities: Potential overtime payments, subject to operational requirements.
• Generous leave entitlements: 20 days' annual leave, increasing to 25 days for eligible shift workers, plus 14 days' personal leave and 17.5% annual leave loading.
• Regional benefits: Two additional days of annual leave when travelling to Perth during annual leave, subject to eligibility.
• Family-friendly benefits: Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave for eligible primary caregivers.
• Additional leave: Five days' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leave for eligible employees, plus study leave and community service leave provisions.
• Extra time off: University-observed public holidays, including Easter Tuesday, and two additional University Days over Christmas/New Year, subject to roster arrangements.
• Employee discounts: Salary packaging through Paywise and access to selected hotel and health insurance discounts.
• Long-service leave: Potential recognition of eligible prior service.

For more reasons to work at Curtin, please visit:
https://staff.curtin.edu.au/discover-curtin/
 
Join us!
  
Please click APPLY NOW, ensuring you attach the following documents:

1. Cover letter outlining your skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the position.
2. Resume.

If you have any queries in relation to this opportunity or the application process, please contact our Careers team on [email protected] or 08 9266 9000 (option 3,1), quoting the reference number. Please note applications will not be accepted via this email address.
 
Applications close: 9.00pm AWST, 12 November 2026
 
Late applications or applications received via email will not be considered, and only successful candidates will be contacted.
 
Please note we are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies at this time.
 
Curtin reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at any time. We reserve the right to remove the advert earlier than the date on the advert.