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Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Student Disability Services (SDS) works in partnership with Cornell faculty, staff, and students to ensure that all aspects of student life are accessible, equitable, and inclusive of individuals with disabilities. SDS establishes and disseminates criteria for disability services, meets with students to discuss access needs, receives and stores confidential disability documentation to support a student's eligibility for disability services and accommodations, and collaborates with faculty and staff regarding essential course and/or program requirements and appropriate reasonable accommodations. SDS provides campus leadership of diversity efforts that promote disability equity and inclusion. We are excited to welcome an Accessible Media Specialist to our Student Disability Services (SDS) team! Reporting to the Assistant Director of Operations, this role is vital in ensuring students with disabilities have access to materials in formats that meet their unique needs, fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment.
Responsibilities
- Arrange and produce accessible materials, including but not limited to Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs.
- Create Braille documents, tactile graphics, and enlarged formats.
- Collaborate with faculty and course staff to ensure course content is accessible.
- Conduct meetings with students to determine their accommodation needs and implement accessible format solutions.
- Provide training and support to students on specific assistive technologies.
- Serve as a resource for accessibility knowledge within the department and campus community.
- Maintain ongoing communication with third-party vendors, such as publishers, content providers, and software vendors.
Requirements
- Hold an Associate's degree with 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in the field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Have the aptitude to organize multiple tasks and maintain information/communication systems in the management of service delivery.
- Hold a strong commitment to collaborative work.
- Be competent with Microsoft office and databases.
- Have strong computer/technical skills and ability to quickly learn, use, and troubleshoot new software and adaptive equipment.
- Be familiar with best practice guidelines/standards for digital accessibility such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
- Demonstrate a commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
- Have experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Be passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and wellbeing.
- Cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree.
- Professional certification in accessibility or adaptive technology/supports, such as from RESNA or IAAP.
- Familiarity of university setting.
- Experience working with persons with disabilities and other diverse populations in a post-secondary setting.
- Experience working as a team in a busy office environment.
- Expertise in creating Braille and tactile format documents (print or digital).
- Expertise in creating accessible documents (print, or digital).
- Experience working with individuals with print-based disabilities.
- Experience working in accessible course design.
- Managing complex workflows.
- Expertise in specific assistive technologies, such as text-to-speech software, screen reader programs, or with ABBYY FineReader (or other OCR programs).
- Experience creating alt text and accessible STEM material.
- Knowledge of assistive technology.
- Demonstrated experience working and communicating with professionals, faculty, students, and other internal and external customers in a variety of capacities.
Benefits
- This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement.
- Comprehensive health care options.
- Generous retirement contributions.
- Access to wellness programs.
- Employee discounts with local and national retail brands.
- Health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays.
- Tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program.
- Tuition aid for external education.
- Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program.
