Faculty Accessibility

3 weeks ago

Hamilton, Canada McMaster University Full time

Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm (Hybrid schedule)

Education Level

Master's degree in a relevant field of study

Career Level

Requires 3 years of relevant experience

UNIT/PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
DeGroote’s Student Experience team supports all students at the DeGroote School of Business -BCom, MBA, specialized graduate programs and PhD students. As an integrated team, we champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and learn continually to deliver a consistent and inspiring student experience. Our student population is comprised of individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences, including international students from around the globe. The school, faculty and staff are committed to building an inclusive community supporting all individuals.

The Faculty Accessibility and Accommodation Officer provides academic and emotional support for a caseload of individual students and small groups. This intersectional personalized support is delivered by co-creating and monitoring progress towards learning and development goals. The focus is on ensuring the student is supported while finding academic success and in developing the tools needed to become a confident self-advocate. The Faculty Accessibility and Accommodation Officer is responsible for facilitating discussions with appropriate resources related to the accessibility and accommodation needs of the DSB Student population. The position provides counseling, advising, and guidance in a team environment with awareness to the diverse needs and experiences of the DSB student population. A critical component of this role is the ability to engage in proactive and regular check-ins while maintaining high levels of trust and confidentiality.

The Faculty Accessibility and Accommodation Officer is responsible for ensuring accommodation and service procedures are developed in accordance with human rights legislation, privacy standards, ministry requirements along with University policies and industry standards. The incumbent is responsible for development and delivery of processes and services to ensure professional, ethical, efficient, effective and student-centered triage, intake and ongoing accommodation support to students. The incumbent will also offer support and guidance to campus partners, including faculty, Area Chairs, and Associate Deans related to accommodating students with disabilities.

This role has dual reporting into Student Experience as well as the Equity, Diversity & Equity Specialist for the DeGroote School of Business.

JOB SUMMARY:
This role will provide support to stakeholders including, but not limited to, acting as a key resource and liaison for the Faculty for all matters concerning student accommodations (temporary or continuing), high need students, and student placement assistance.

PURPOSE AND KEY FUNCTIONS:

- Develop, coordinate and implement appropriate individual education plans for students with disabilities.
- Ensure disability related accommodations are arranged for designated students.
- Interview students to determine specific interim accommodation needs.
- Provide ongoing counselling, support, and advocacy for students with disabilities.
- Provide support, information and advice to students and instructors in the implementation of recommended accommodations.
- Implement accommodation strategies and best practices for specific courses.
- Provide assistive technology recommendations for faculty and departments.
- Assess academic, education, and other disability related needs of students.
- Ensure equitable access for students with disabilities to classroom activities, course requirements, programs, services and facilities.
- Develop and design strategies for specific placement opportunities and implement accommodation requirements.
- Organize and establish service delivery models for tests, exams, note taking, and transcription.
- Engage in ongoing problem solving surrounding disability services with various members of the University community.
- Provide seminars and workshops to the University community to facilitate awareness of disability issues on campus.
- Develop and deliver presentations which convey complex disability related issues and attitudes.
- Collaborate with other University departments in the provision of disability and education-related accommodation support for students with disabilities.
- Develop, design and implement academic and non-academic accommodations consistent with University policies and practices, student needs, disability-related documentation and available resources.
- Plan and coordinate the use of tools and resources for accommodation implementation.
- Represent the faculty office and/or department to other university units on matters related to student accommodations.
- Collaborate with SAS on behalf of Instructors, regarding aligning pedagogical design and academic integrity with student accommodations.
- Perform gap analyses where current policies and/or procedures are no

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