Museum Security Guard

**Museum Security Guard**
**MOCA Toronto**
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA Toronto will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary, and internationally renowned through our work with artists and a place for everyone to explore, provoke ideas, and challenge the current cultural moment.
We intend to achieve this vision through our mission:
- To present rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through the commissioning of new work.
- To foster active dialogue and participation, celebrate complexity, and serve as an inclusive cultural hub in a hyper-diverse city and world.
Our values guide our work:
- Equitable, inclusive, and accessible
- Artist-centred, interdisciplinary, and process-oriented
- Critical and transformative
- Reciprocal and relationship-based
- Locally rooted and globally connected
- Courageous and responsible
**Position Summary**
- Posted on:
August 16, 2023
- Closing on:
Open until filled
- Location:
Toronto, ON
- Employment Type:
Casual
- Remote/Onsite:
Onsite
- Report to:
Visitor Experience Manager
- Start date:
September 5, 2023
- Salary:
$23.15 per hour (plus in lieu of vacation 4% and benefits 4.5%)
- Benefits:
Attractions Ontario Benefits and Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
As a **Museum Security Guard**, the primary responsibility will be the preservation and protection of the museum's exhibition of artworks, alongside ensuring the security and safety of the museum's assets, visitors, and staff. This role demands high levels of vigilance, attention to detail, and respect for cultural and artistic assets.
**Responsibilities**
- Prioritize the safeguarding of the museum's collection of artwork, ensuring their safety from theft, damage, or any form of interference
- Provide consistent surveillance of artworks, visitors, staff, and museum property
- Stay current with the daily schedule of events
- Control and monitor access to the museum and orient visitors to the museum
- Answering visitor questions concerning exhibits, wayfinding, and facilities and liaising with Visitor Experience Guides when it comes to visitor engagement and exhibition questions
- Conduct routine patrols of the museum premises. May include outdoor areas from time to time
- Detect, investigate, and respond to potential interference of artwork, fire and safety hazards
- Ensuring visitors follow museum rules
- Complete reports as needed
- Review the museum's surveillance systems when needed
- Manage traffic and visitor wayfinding within the museums
- Provide crowd control and security during museum events, including weekends and holidays
- Undertake other duties as assigned by the supervisor
**Skills and Qualifications**
- Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a security role
- High school diploma or GED equivalent
- Must be able to work regular weekends, evenings, holidays and special events
- Conflict resolution/de-escalation and anti-oppression training is an asset
- Must have the ability to be both friendly and commanding in communication
- Excellent observational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to interact effectively with a diverse range of individuals
- Physically capable of standing and walking for extended periods, as well as responding to emergencies swiftly
- First aid certification is an asset
- Smart Serve certification is an asset
**Equity and Diversity**
MOCA Toronto advocates equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and is committed to diversity in the workplace.
**Job Type**:
Casual
**Salary**:
$23.15 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Weekends as needed
Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON