Accessibility Partner

Description

As an Accessibility Partner, you partner with a blind or low-vision professional in the technology field to anticipate and mitigate barriers and obstacles in the workplace and during the workday. Duties include providing sighted guidance and remediating inaccessible materials, among other responsibilities. We are seeking a tech-savvy individual with a professional demeanor and organized mindset, excellent interpersonal skills, and a commitment to ongoing education in disability allyship and promoting an equitable workplace.        

 A Foundation of Inclusion:

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  

About ETC and the AP Service        

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/

Wage Range:$29.16 - $32.40 per hour

Location:Redmond, WA     

(In-Person)

Schedule: Monday - Friday; Full-Time; specific daily hours vary by client need

Benefits:                

• Competitive and affordable Medical (including hearing & hardware coverage!), Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life insurance  
• 17 Accrued Paid Time Off Days Annually 
• 7 Paid Holidays + 2.5 Days of Floating Holiday; 5 Floating Holiday days annually after one year 
• Retirement 401(K) with a company match
• Employment Assistance Program (EAP) via Spring Health
• Mental Wellness Program including six free therapy sessions per year  
• Physical Wellness Reimbursement Program - $25 per month
• Student Loan Contribution Program - $50 per month
• Pet Insurance Discount Program
• Highly skilled, dedicated, and collaborative team
• Opportunity for career development with our NWC Mentorship Match program

Check out the entire list of benefits Northwest Center has to offer here: https://nwcbenefits.hrbenefits.net/

Job Duties:               

• 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

Qualifications:               

• 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.

Northwest Center is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at View email address on jobs.jobvite.com

 At Northwest Center, we do not just accept diversity and inclusion — we celebrate it, support it, live it, and flourish in it to benefit our employees, the community, and our clientele. We believe that our strength lies within our diversity and the forward motion toward a day when people of all abilities can learn and work together.     

We believe that curiosity and critical thinking are essential to the dialogue and improving decision-making, planning, resource allocation, and how we treat others. Our goal is to create and implement more equitable practices, policies, and culture. To be equitable means to value and respect individuals from all cultural backgrounds, genders, races, identities, and abilities. Northwest Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veterans’ status.