Homeoffice Accessibility Partner en Northwest Center
Northwest Center · Seattle, Estados Unidos De América · Remote
- Junior
As an Accessibility Partner, you will be providing sighted assistance to a Program Delivery Manager in the technology field. You will partner with the person to anticipate and mitigate barriers and obstacles in the workplace and during the workday. We are looking for someone who is tech-savvy with a strong administrative skillset, familiarity with coding, and a dedication to continued education toward disability allyship and ensuring an equitable workplace.
Schedule: Monday - Friday; 5:30 am - 2 pm
- 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
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Seeking to understand the ways to best partner with and empower the employee through relationship building
- Clearly and professionally communicating visual cues and rendering visual descriptions to the employee as appropriate
- Creating and reformatting all documents into an accessible format as needed
- Maintaining and supporting an electronic document filing system
- Supporting in daily key tasks such as taking notes, administrative tasks that may be inaccessible, building visual images or graphics, interpreting visual cues such as body language and facial expressions, as well as creating presentations, in-person or virtual
- Proactively working to anticipate and address barriers and reprioritizing tasks based on the needs of the employee
- Growing your 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 direct service, disability-focused human services field preferred
- Experience working with people who are visually impaired, or blind preferred
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps and CoPilot preferred
- Strong administrative skillset
- High attention to detail
- Tech-savvy with an in-depth understanding of Microsoft 365, along with case management tools such as PowerBI and Dynamics
- Digital Accessibility knowledge
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to deal with confidential information, including sensitive human resources situations
- Although not required, we encourage candidates to highlight any experience related to administrative/executive assistance, experience with accessibility tools and software, and/or knowledge of programming languages