Accessibility Partner

This role draws from a very specific set of skills. If your career includes experience in one of the areas below, we highly encourage you to apply:

• →Disability Services professional in higher education (i.e. Accommodation Coordinator. Disability Resources office)
• →Accessibility or Assistive Technology (AT) Specialist, particularly supporting blind or low-vision individuals
• →Blindness Rehabilitation Specialist, Orientation and Mobility Instructor, or Vocational Rehabilitation Professional 

The ETC is a new B2B offering from Northwest Center. The ETC provides businesses with the professional services necessary to create anti-ableist workplaces where all employees can thrive. This includes assessment, consulting, training, and coaching, and our flagship offering: Accessibility Partners Service (AP).      

The AP Service enables employers to accommodate disabled employees and dismantle barriers to equity. APs provide virtual or in-person workplace support to employees with a range of disability, from vision loss to mobility impairment. APs partner with clients with disabilities by mitigating and circumventing technological and physical barriers to equity.           

The ETC and AP Services remove the burden of workplace transformation and accommodation implementation from the disabled employee. Be a part of something new, exciting, and long overdue!        

Learn more about our Employment Transformation Collective and The Accessibility Partner service here: https://theetc.org/        

• Seeks to understand the ways to best partner with and empower the employee through relationship building
• Clearly and professionally communicates visual cues and renders visual descriptions to the employee as appropriate
• Remediates and reformats documents into an accessible format as needed
• Maintains and supports an electronic document filing system
• Supports daily key tasks such as taking notes, administrative tasks that may be inaccessible, remediating visual images and graphics for accessibility, interpreting visual cues such as body language and facial expressions, and creating presentations, in-person or virtual
• Provides in-person support and sighted guidance
• Proactively anticipates and addresses barriers, reprioritizing tasks based on the needs of the employee
• Grows knowledge of support practices and skills on digital and physical accessibility tools through participation in self-research, learning different strategies, workshops, professional meetings, networking, and reading of current literature in the field of accessibility

• One or more years of experience working in a disability and accessibility focused human services field highly preferred
• Experience working with people who are visually impaired, or blind highly preferred
• Tech-savvy with an in-depth understanding of various platforms and office software Particularly MS Office and Google Suite
• Demonstrated ability to safeguard confidential and sensitive information and to follow strict confidentiality agreements and guidelines
• Strong administrative skillset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail
• Although not required, we encourage candidates to highlight any experience related to accessibility tools and software, knowledge of programming languages, or a demonstrated understanding of the difference between doing a task for someone and enabling someone to do a task themselves.