Accessibility Partner: Champion for Inclusive Tech

Northwest Center; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k) matching

Employee assistance program

Mental wellness program

Wellness reimbursement

Student loan contribution

Pet insurance discount

Mentorship program

Job summary

Northwest Center is seeking an Accessibility Partner to join The Employment Transformation Collective. The role partners with blind or low-vision professionals to mitigate barriers in workplaces and day-to-day tasks, providing sighted guidance and remediating inaccessible materials.

Ideal candidates are tech-savvy with excellent interpersonal skills, dedicated to disability allyship, and committed to ongoing education in promoting equitable workplaces.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Communication skills

Administrative skills

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Tools

MS Office

Google Suite

Job description

Northwest Center is seeking an Accessibility Partner to join The Employment Transformation Collective. The role partners with blind or low-vision professionals to mitigate barriers in workplaces and day-to-day tasks, providing sighted guidance and remediating inaccessible materials.

Ideal candidates are tech-savvy with excellent interpersonal skills, dedicated to disability allyship, and committed to ongoing education in promoting equitable workplaces.