Security Communication Specialist

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Fort Meade, MD
Entry level
Security
The Role
The Security Communication Specialist is responsible for managing security operations, monitoring alarms and responses, and coordinating emergency personnel dispatch. They handle calls, monitor camera feeds, and ensure accurate record-keeping. The role requires specific physical capabilities and clear vision and hearing standards.
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Why IDS?
IDS believes in resolving conflict, building innovative approaches to do so. Combining operational expertise with an intimate understanding of today’s greatest challenges, we bring our customers the solutions required for success in a complex and multidimensional world. IDS tailors solutions for a diverse range of government, military, nonprofit, and public-sector clients. Outstanding past performance built IDS’s reputation as the leading provider of support for multifaceted operations.
Responsibilities:
- View and manage cameras and access control
- Handle facility emergency calls
- Receive information from officers about facilities
- Electronically process medical, burglary, trespass/unauthorized entry and life safety alarms signals and dispatch appropriate response personnel
- Monitor and accurately record the time calls are received as well as when dispatched, and the time the en-route officer arrives and clears the call
- Monitor radio channels of communications for officers in need of backup or assistance
- Respond to alarms using electronic monitoring software to assist with the notification of police, fire, or emergency medical personnel
- Disarm and re-arm alarms when prompted or as required
- Answer 9-1-1 emergency telephone and alarm system calls
- Determine the type of emergency, its location, and decide the appropriate response in accordance with Agency procedures
- Relay information to the appropriate first-responder agency
- Coordinate the dispatch of emergency response personnel to incident scenes 
- Keep detailed records of all calls
Requirements:
- Must possess a TS/SCI 
- Be physically able to perform all duties and functions as specified for the post they are filling
- Possess binocular vision correctable to 20/20 and close vision correctable to Jaeger No. 4 type test for both eyes
- Be free of color blindness
- Have normal fields of vision and good depth perception, as defined by the Snellen chart
- Have hearing which is correctable to normal level hearing with hearing aids. Normal hearing levels are demonstrated by a pure tone audiometry hearing level (HL) of 0 decibels (dB) or lower
- Be able to stand continuously for 4 hours at a time.

The Company
HQ: Arlington, VA
341 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Hybrid conflict. Non-state actors. Digital hacktivists. Tribal politics. Advanced technology. Ancient beliefs. Rapid adaptation. Strategic uncertainty. Declining resources. Rising extremism.

Today’s national security challenges are complex and multidimensional, requiring adaptive, interagency responses.

For more than a decade, IDS International has delivered innovative training, research and operational civil-military services to help address these 21st century challenges. We are seasoned soldiers, aid workers, diplomats, intelligence professionals, cyber warriors, technical experts, political advisors, and more with a common understanding of how to train for and operate in conflict zones and transitional areas.

Our team of interagency experts and field practitioners operate and train together daily, building on our global multidisciplinary understanding of challenges, best practices and new approaches. This wide range of perspectives permits us to serve as a liaison between civil society, military, government and technology to enhance coordination and effectively solve complex security and political problems.

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