Senior Accessibility Specialist

CHM-1; Sandy; Remote; GBP 44,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

An established charity is seeking a Senior Accessibility Specialist to lead initiatives that enhance inclusivity and accessibility. This role involves collaborating with various teams to implement strategic interventions and improve experiences for diverse communities, particularly focusing on physical and sensory disabilities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape accessibility practices and influence positive change across the organization. This is a full-time, permanent position with flexible working patterns, aimed at creating a more equitable environment for all.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance Scheme

26 days' Annual Leave

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering strategic accessibility interventions.
• Commitment to making a difference in accessibility for diverse communities.
• Expertise in accessible communications and co-designing content.

Responsibilities

• Implement accessibility improvements for staff, volunteers, and visitors.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance experiences for disabled workforce.
• Drive behavior change across the organization for better accessibility.

Skills

Strategic Accessibility Interventions

Accessible Design

Interpersonal Skills

Knowledge of Accessibility Standards

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Job description

Senior Accessibility Specialist
Reference: APR
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: GBP44,315.00 - GBP47,312.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours a week - Flexible working pattens to be discussed
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave

Whilst this charity has a huge presence and influence in the conservation sector, they recognise that their work is not reaching everyone. They need to enable more, and more diverse people to engage with and act for nature.

Recognising that people are at the heart of delivering this organisation's ambitions, they have an exciting opportunity for a talented person to join as Senior Accessibility Specialist.

What's the job about?
This charity's 2030 strategy commits them to becoming more relevant to the communities and supporters they work with by involving a more diverse range of people. Recognising that people are at the heart of delivering these ambitions, they have an exciting opportunity for a talented person to join as Senior Accessibility Specialist. Reporting to the Head of EDI, and as part of the EDI leadership team, you will hold close relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation. You will work collaboratively to support the transformation in behaviours and skills needed to make this charity a more accessible and equitable place for all.

The role does have flexibility to shape and innovate but will be focused on the continuation and delivery of two main priorities:

1. Working with nature reserve teams to implement accessibility improvements that make this charity's spaces more inclusive for Staff, Volunteers and Visitors
2. Working with Communications and Learning and Development teams, internal networks and other stakeholders, to deliver better experiences for the disabled workforce from the point they apply for a role.

Essentials:

• Experienced in delivering strategic accessibility interventions and influencing positive change at all levels of a large and complex organisation and the wider sector
• Personal commitment to making a tangible difference to accessibility with a focus on physical disability, sensory disabilities and neurodiverse people and communities.
• An advocate and practitioner of accessible design and clear communication
• Background and confidence in working with people with lived experience of access barriers and providing support and advice to organisations around accessibility.
• Comfortable to proactively challenge internal policy, practices and communications to better include marginalised groups.
• Expertise on accessible communications, with experience working to improve standards of internal communications and co-designing engaging content for external communication
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills to role model and drive behaviour change across all areas of accessibility
• In depth knowledge of accessibility standards and best practise within the UK. Including: WCAG, social model of disability, universal design principles, access to work, reasonable adjustments and working application of the Equality Act 2010
• Significant experience of designing and delivering resources and training around accessibility in a range of formats to meet learner needs
• Strong internal and external stakeholder management skills, ability to recognise a build key relationships and influence at a sector level
• Sound understanding of intersectionality of disability and other protected characteristics and a good generalist EDI knowledge to inform specialist advice and guidance
• Strong and effective communication skills, with ability to influence leaders and mobilise other teams to act
• Strong written communication and digital presentations skills to communicate accessibility and disability inclusion to a wide range of audiences
• Analytical evaluation to inform and report on areas of focus and impact
• Awareness of project and process management to enable work to be planned and delivered to a high quality, on time and within resource capacity

Desirable:

• Experience or interest in accessibility in the Conservation section, nature or climate emergency
• Understanding of the intersectional context of race and gender equity within accessibility
• Practical experience supporting accessibility changes at visitor attractions
• Experience working in the Voluntary sector or in volunteering
• Experience of movement building or membership organisations

Additional Information
This role is available full time and permanently for 37.5 hours a week, but we welcome applications for those looking for different working patterns and are happy to discuss further with interested candidates.

This employer is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve their vision of creating a world richer in nature, they need more people, and more diverse people, on nature's side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, they are particularly interested in receiving your application.

Closing date: 23:59, Wednesday 21st May 2025
Interviews will take place around the 18th and 19th of June.
Please note: The right is reserved to close this advert at any time.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

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This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment.

No agencies please.