Accessibility Specialist - Manhattan, United States - NYC Careers

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ACCESSIBILITY SPECIALIST:

Agency: CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD

Posted on: 05/08/2024

Job type: Fulltime

Location

MANHATTAN

Title Classification: No exam required

Department

Managerial

Salary range: $60, $67, The New York City Campaign Finance Board manages New York City's small donor democracy program and educates and engages voters via NYC Votes. The CFB has enjoyed a tremendous arc of progress over its 30year history, and our updated flagship small donor democracy program is a centerpiece of this progress.
We eliminate barriers to participation by providing access to the resources New Yorkers need to vote or run for office and amplify the voices of small donors with New York City's small donor democracy program.
We are dedicated to making New York City's local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable. You would be working with a team that is mission driven and committed to continuous improvement.
The CFB's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) aids the CFB in complying with federal, state, and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEO Office works to ensure that employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, with equality of opportunity, and without unlawful discrimination. The Office develops and administers training, conducts policy review, investigates allegations of discrimination and reviews requests for reasonable accommodations. This office also works to ensure our agency strategy is built on accessibility.
The CFB's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) supports the CFB's efforts at creating a workplace culture that values diversity, equity, inclusion and weaves those principles into every aspect of our work. The Office manages the work of the DEI committee, agencywide events, provides guidance to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and much more.
The New York City Campaign Finance Board seeks an Accessibility Specialist. Specifically, this person will serve to support members of the EEO/DEI office in (1) ensuring agency compliance with accessibility laws, regulations, and policies, (2) periodically conducting analyses of agency accessibility compliance and identifying accessibility barriers and recommending necessary adjustments, (3) facilitating training sessions to increase accessibility awareness among agency employees and (4) advising relevant employees on accessibility procedures to ensure access to all, both internally and externally to the organization. Most importantly, the Accessibility Specialist will need to establish and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to collaborate successfully and actively to implement best practices and effectively address all accessibility needs. This role will initially report to the Chief EEO/DEI Officer.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Lead the EEO/DEI office in carrying-out the agency's increased accessibility efforts, per our 5-Year Accessibility Plan.
Ensure agency compliance with federal (ADA), state, and local accessibility laws, regulations, policies, and best practices.
Periodically conduct analyses of agency accessibility compliance and identifying accessibility barriers and recommending necessary adjustments.
Develop program policies for online reasonable accommodation request submissions and implement survey checklists to track accommodation needs.
Meet with employees to counsel them on reasonable accommodations, potential accessibility issues, and solutions.
Review requests for reasonable accommodations and related processes.
Keep up to date with best practices within accessibility field, through engagement with scientific journals, current events/news, thought leaders, DEIbased books, laws and policies (ADA), and more.
Establish and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to collaborate successfully and actively to implement best practices and effectively address the agency's accessibility needs.
Ensure CFB's internal and external events meet ADA requirements for both online and inperson events.
Work with EEO/DEI leadership to create an internal accessibility best practices guidebook.
Work with EEO/DEI leadership and relevant agency parties in procuring different services to enhance the CFB's accessibility initiatives.
Leading internal accessibility efforts via internal communications, programming, and events.
Work with members of the EEO/DEI office in the preparation of required EEO/DEI reports, responses to audits, annual statements, and other EEOrelated reporting to external parties, including coordinating the collection and analysis of EEO data and information.
Model all Accessibility, EEO, and DEI prescribed behaviors and advance Access objectives.
Serve as a liaison with disability rights advocacy groups, government ADA coordinators, and other stakeholders to implement best practices.