Associate Director, Student Accessibility Services

Student Accessibility Services:

Student Accessibility Services (SAS) works with 3,500+ students with disabilities every year to facilitate equal access and reasonable accommodations. SAS works closely with faculty, Housing, and other departments to ensure disabled students experience equal opportunity to the campus experience. SAS also explores ways in which the UCF experience can be proactively designed with disability access and inclusion considered from the outset so as to minimize the need for reactive accommodations. Overall, SAS' accessibility work spans most areas of campus with opportunities for various engagement and the ability to make a campus impact.

The Opportunity:

The Associate Director of Student Accessibility Services will provide supervisory and administrative oversight of essential aspects of the access and accommodation process within Student Accessibility Services. In addition, this position will serve as an outreach collaborator with various partners in the UCF community, especially Housing and faculty departments.

*This is a reposted position. Previous applicants are still being considered and do not need to reapply.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise the SAS Accessibility Consultants and oversee the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing accommodation system (staff supervision and administrative support.)

• Lead SAS' coordination of the housing accommodation process for 500+ annual housing accommodation requests.

• Lead campus outreach efforts and develop strategic plans for outreach with targeted campus stakeholders, such as faculty, Admissions, Orientation, and others.

• Advance the disability access and inclusion efforts by collaborating with various stakeholders to create a more naturally accessible campus experience.

• Analyze disability matters from both an environmental and an individual perspective to determine how to influence design and when to facilitate reasonable accommodations as necessary.

• Participate in the development of programming, resources, services, and activities that bring greater understanding the limitations of the environment and its impact on an individual's disability experience.

• Lead and contribute to the development of new processes and practices within SAS that maintain or advance best practices nationally.

• Address higher level student, faculty, and community concerns that exceed the role of consultants and assistant directors.

• Lead SAS in the absence of the director and serve as the designee leader upon assignment by the director (such as team meetings, student accommodation reviews, appeal processes, commencement and other specific campus events, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's and 6+ years of relevant experience or Masters degree and 4+ years of relevant experience with at least 2+ year(s) of leadership experience. Or an equivalent combination of education and experience pursuant to Fla. Stat. 112.219.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least three years experience in a higher education disability office.

• Direct experience with facilitating disability office operations and accommodations for students.

• Housing accommodation coordination experience preferred.

• Direct Involvement in specific projects or collaborations with faculty.

• Demonstrated contributor to the disability office through the spearheading of initiatives.

• Experience giving presentations at the campus and local, state, or national levels.

Additional Application Materials Required:

Please include your resume & cover letter with your application.