Title:Director of Accessible Education
Position Purpose: The Director of Accessible Education is responsible for ensuring compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) the ADA Amendments Act and related federal and state regulations as they pertain to students. Reporting to the Assistant Dean of Students the Director manages daytoday operations of the office coordinates the logistics of testing and other reasonable accommodations and provides frontline guidance and assistance to students parents faculty and staff. The Director partners closely with colleagues on campus to identify and help address barriers to full and equal access for students with disabilities. In addition the Director will serve as a Student Support Advisor providing personal support and supplemental academic advising to a cohort of students. |
Job Duties: Accommodation Support: - Provide direct services to students with disabilities including determining eligibility for accommodations and implementation of accommodations.
- Evaluate approve and supervise the provision of all mandated and nonmandated services for students with disabilities.
- Provide support to students working as needed with administrators faculty and staff members to ensure compliance with federal mandates as well as inclusive design practices and principles that support the campus environment.
- Provide consultation to prospective students current students parents staff and faculty around issues related to access.
- Coordinator logistics for accommodations including peer note taking text in alternative format and captioning.
- Manage access and inventory of assistive technology resources and provide basic training to students.
- Facilitate referrals to resources across campus to provide holistic access to support.
- Coordination of support for students via consultation with faculty student affairs staff and other campus offices to support student access to experience on campus.
Student Support Advisor: - Serve as Student Support Advisor to a cohort of students throughout their academic career.
- Advise students managing personal challenges to connect with supports and ensure academic and personal success.
- Provide supplemental academic advising as needed as students negotiate their academic development.
- Assist students in negotiating academic policies such as leaves course deferrals and other process.
Student Affairs: - Serve on the Student Affairs oncall rotation providing timely response and support for student emergencies.
- Participate in team projects that enhance the quality or efficiency of Student Affairs.
- Participate in Senior Week Commencement Winter Carnival and other campus wide events including events protests and crisis support to provide support and student supervision as needed.
- Support the Associate Dean in other projects related to operations student accountability community standards.
- Participate in national and regional professional development opportunities to ensure the implementation and assessment of best practices related to student life.
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Minimum Qualifications: Education - Masters degree in Special Education Counseling Psychology Social Work student development higher education or related field preferred.
- Bachelors degree required.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
Experience - Minimum of three years of professional experience preferably in disability services in a postsecondary setting.
- Experience working in collaborative and dynamic office environments.
- Experience working within a complex office environment with frequently shifting tasks and priorities.
- Experience working with multiple constituencies in sometimes difficult and stressful situations.
- Strong working knowledge of assistive/adaptive technology.
- Demonstrated success in supporting students from underrepresented groups including students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups firstgenerationtocollege students LGBTQ identified students students with disabilities and lowincome students.
Skills and Knowledge - Commitment to equity and inclusion and serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse community.
- A strong social justice orientation and understanding of disability as a social construct including an approach to work that focuses on barrierremoval.
- Working knowledge of the history of special education and disability in K12 and higher education in the United States.
- Working knowledge of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 its 2008 amendments and other appropriate laws pertaining to higher education and disabilities.
- Knowledge about and skills in developmental psychological and medical issues in the college student population.
- Strong problemsolving skills and demonstrated track record of effectively working with students in crisis.
- Excellent judgment and awareness for interpersonal dynamics.
- Ability to remain composed friendly and demonstrate poise under stress.
- Excellent communication (written verbal and presentation) skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships with clientele such as students staff faculty and community partners.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to quickly synthesize information from a variety of sources in order to make informed recommendations for the best welfare of students.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive student information.
- Ability to effectively engage with diverse personalities and manage difficult situations.
- Ability to learn and be comfortable with various types of assistive technology such as texttospeech speechtotext notetaking software and other software.
- Proficiency in basic data management systems and assessment practices (e.g. Microsoft Word and Excel Power Point WordPress website Google docs email and calendar).
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
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Benefits: Bates College offers competitive salaries excellent benefits (health dental sick leave 24 days of vacation 2 personal days 13 paid holidays dependent care subsidy free parking access to library and athletic facilities & more) and a supportive collegial environment in a drug and smokefree workplace. |
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color national or ethnic origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression age disability genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students in the administration of its education policies and programs or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. All college faculty staff students contractors visitors and volunteers are responsible for understanding and complying with the NonDiscrimination Policy.
Inquiries concerning the colleges policies compliance with applicable laws statutes and regulations (such as Title VII Title IX and ADA/Section 504 and complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow Title IX Officeror via email at .
About Bates:
Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college attracting 2000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.
Since 1855 Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender race religion or national origin.
Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world. Bates engages the forces intellectual trends demographic changes and technology that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.
Bates has highly competitive admissions graduates over 90 percent of its entering students and more than half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates employs 200 faculty members and 550 staff.
The college is proud of deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community Maines secondlargest urban area with a population of approximately 65000. Bates is located on a beautiful 133acre traditional New England campus in Lewiston an emerging city with an entrepreneurial climate a lively arts scene and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland 140 miles north of Boston and 350 miles north of New York City.
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