Employment Opportunities

ADMINISTRATION

 PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR  

DEFINITION: The Public Safety Director is the Head of the Department of Public Safety. The department encompasses the Division of Police, the Division of Fire, and the Division of Office of

Emergency Management (“OEM”).

 DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES:

• The Public Safety Director shall be the Administrator and Head of the Public Safety Department and subordinate to the Business Administrator and Mayor.
• The Public Safety Director shall give reports to the Mayor and Dover Municipal Council as requested by the Council. In addition, the Public Safety Director shall provide said reports to the Dover Municipal Council at the Council caucus meeting and/or Council meetings.
• The Public Safety Director shall attend all Director’s meetings, unless sick or on vacation.
• The Public Safety Director shall be responsible for drafting and submitting an annual budget for the Public Safety Department.
• The Public Safety Director shall supervise the Deputy Public Safety Director, Captain of Police, Fire and OEM.
• The Public Safety Director, or his or her designee, shall officiate COMSTAT.
• The Public Safety Director shall conduct and participate in training or instruction of, to or with, any Public Safety personnel.
• Supervise the Public Safety Department and be responsible for all other personnel therein.
• The Director of Public Safety shall be responsible for the administration and regulation and as appropriate, have the authority to discipline personnel of the Division of Police, the Division of Fire and Division of OEM.
• The Director of Public Safety shall report directly to the Business Administrator and the Mayor concerning the conditions of the Department and its improvements and needs.
• The Director may employ special law-enforcement officers in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A: 14-146.8 et. seq., "Special Law Enforcement Act;"
• The Director of Public Safety may promulgate rules and regulations for the Division of Police and The Division of Fire.
• The Public Safety Director, or his or her designee, shall serve as the hearing officer in disciplinary matters and have all of powers prescribed in N.J.S.A. 40A:14-118.
• The Director of Public Safety shall:
  • Keep abreast of the public safety requirements of the Township and formulate policies, directives, order, plans, and procedures to determine needs;
  • Develop organization, manpower and resource recommendations and upon effect their implementation;
  • Establish performance criteria for the Department as a whole as well as its individual members and conduct periodic evaluations to ensure compliance with those criteria;
  • Promote a close liaison with the various agencies located in Dover, and attend meetings of the Town Council as needed to better coordinate the functioning of the Division of Police and Division of Fire.
  • Regularly review the ordinances of the Township of Dover dealing with public safety.
  • Meet with any police and fire personnel he or she deems appropriate to ascertain information necessary to formulating policy, directives, general orders, or any other matters concerning the effective and efficient operation of the Division of Police, Fire and OEM.
  • Be responsible for the deployment of all police and fire personnel as well as all resources and equipment.
  • Be responsible for the routine day-to-day operations of the Police, Fire and OEM Division’s when the Captain of Police, Fire and OEM are on vacation, sick leave, family medical leave, military leave, or any other approved leave of absence for more fourteen consecutive days.
  • Be responsible for the routine day-to-day operations when there is no Captain of Police, Fire and OEM by ordinance.
  • In the absence of the Public Safety Director, due to illness, vacation, or vacancy, the day to day operations will fall to the Business Administrator.

REQUIREMENTS:  

NOTE: The Director of Public Safety shall assign such person’s duties as desired. The person appointed as Deputy Director of Public Safety shall be qualified by training and experience for the duties of the position. The person shall not be appointed unless he or she meets the following minimum qualifications, unless said qualifications are waived by affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the entire Council: a minimum of ten (10) years experience as a member of a police department, fire department or other public safety agency, including military, corrections facilities or state police, five years of which shall have been in a supervisory and administrative capacity.

The salary range is $130,000 to $170,000 for this position. The Town offers Medical, Prescription and Dental benefit coverage. Please email cover letter, salary requirements and resume to Victoria Dobrusin, Director of Human Resources at vdobrusin@dover.nj.us by October 24, 2025.