Digital Accessibility Content Assistant

21 hours ago

St Paul, MN, United States University Of St Thomas Full time
OVERVIEW

Job Title: Digital Accessibility Content Assistant

Pay Rate: $16.50 per/hour

Location: On campus (St. Paul) and remote

JOB SUMMARY:

The Digital Accessibility Content Assistant applies digital accessibility core skills and guidelines to St. Thomas digital content including Word documents, Canvas sites, PDFs, PowerPoints, and more. This position helps create new accessible content, improve digital content that is not yet accessible for all learners, and teach others about these practices. The Digital Accessibility Content Assistant will also help identify ways to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated tools to help with digital accessibility.

The Digital Accessibility Content Assistant position requires strong reading and writing skills, attention to detail, strong initiative, and a desire to learn digital accessibility practices and teach others. This is a great opportunity to provide leadership around improving digital accessibility and technology practices at St. Thomas while building competence in a skill set critical to careers in this digital age. Training will be provided as needed to address specific digital accessibility functions.

This 20 hour a week position allows you to work on the St. Paul campus with some opportunity for remote work if you have the equipment and high-speed internet required. Hours and locations will be determined with your supervisor. The Digital Accessibility Content Assistant reports to the Digital Learning Success Manager and will work with many other team members.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Create digitally accessible Word documents, PDFs, and PowerPoints.
  • Use and train others to use accessibility checker tools (e.g., in Canvas, Microsoft 365, or third party tools).
  • Help deliver (with others) digital accessibility skills training.
  • Review Canvas courses for accessibility and reformat course content to meet specific digital accessibility standards.
  • Additional duties related to accessibility, course design, assistive technology (including use of AI) as assigned.
  • Curiosity and interest in learning around digital accessibility.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS (that may occur by serving in such a position)
  • Develop and expand accessibility core skills that can be applied across various types of digital content.
  • Ability to speak about the human rights, civil rights, laws surrounding the importance of digitally accessible content and access for all.
  • Gain additional leadership experience, teamwork and critical thinking skills.
  • Learn how to collaborate with various stakeholders across the university.
QUALIFICATIONS

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Graduate or undergraduate student in a degree-seeking program at UST.
  • Interest in digital accessibility, assistive technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Basic awareness of how to create digitally accessible content is preferred, not required to apply.
  • Ability to collaborate and work as a team member across multiple projects, demonstrating initiative, focus, and flexibility.
  • Able to provide respectful, constructive feedback to staff/faculty/student employees on digital content that may require remediation.
  • Able to communicate effectively through both written communication and expressive communication via Teams/Zoom and in person.
  • Skill in critical thinking and problem solving; often the work involves discerning what is critical information to convey and how to convey it, and when to seek out additional information.
  • Detail oriented: ability to complete work accurately and apply specific core accessibility skills.
  • Organized and able to keep track of multiple documents and projects at once.
  • Respect for confidentiality and academic integrity.
  • Fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or eligible for legally required medical or religious exemption.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (PREFERRED, NOT REQUIRED)
  • Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
  • Knowledge about screen readers and/or PDF remediation.
  • Experience in using various online technologies.
  • Experience in building/editing within a content or learning management system preferred (e.g., Canvas, Canva)
  • Basic image editing software skills.
  • Awareness of core digital accessibility elements (alt text, table headers, header hierarchies, color contrast, linking, etc.)
  • Candidates who have already completed the Digital Accessibility Basics self-paced module and/or Assistive Technology Basics considered an asset.

HOW TO APPLY:

On the University of St. Thomas Jobs page, follow the instructions to complete an online application which includes uploading or creating a resume.

In light of its commitment to create and maintain a safe learning and working environment, student employment with the University of St. Thomas may require consent and successful completion of a background screening.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for student employment, St. Thomas students must be degree seeking at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Students must be actively enrolled at least part-time in courses for credit. For further information on eligibility please see the Student Employee Toolkit on One StThomas.

The University of St. Thomas is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including

disability and protected veteran status.

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