Technology Accessibility Coordinator (Grant Funded)

Salary : $63,200.00 - $77,550.00 Annually

Location : Salisbury, MD

Job Type : Full-Time Non-Standard

Job Number : 00FY25-00427

Department : Academic Affairs

Opening Date : 01 / 10 / 2025

Primary Function

Wor-Wic Community College is accepting applications for a full-time technology accessibility coordinator to work collaboratively with the mental health and disability services department and faculty to identify and recommend potential solutions for technology accessibility barriers based on current applicable guidelines, laws and regulations, including the ADA and Section 508 for Electronic and Information Technology.

Essential Duties

The following list is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with this position.

• Designs and reviews new and existing online, hybrid and in-person courses for compliance with accessibility laws and regulations; identifies and remediates instructional materials that present barriers for students, and provides faculty with a checklist and resources to bring courses into compliance
• Trains and supports students on appropriate access technology by conducting one-on-one trainings, presentations and creating digital training materials
• Assists in developing college digital accessibility standards, best practices and resource information, and monitors means of assessments and benchmarks on a quarterly basis to show progress to remove accessibility barriers across inventory of information and communication technology
• Contributes to the distance education strategic plan and is a a member of the distance education committee
• Assists in providing faculty professional development training and support with an emphasis on digital accessibility
• Evaluates and recommends tools and platforms that enhance learning, accessibility and usability
• Maintains up to date knowledge of accessibility standards and state and federal laws
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

Experience creating and preparing learning materials using a learning management system

Supplemental Information

This full-time administrative position is grant-funded and non-standard. A modified benefits package is available for this position. The starting salary for this position will likely range from $63,200 to $77,550, depending on the successful candidate's education and experience as well as grant specifications.

The right candidate will represent our commitment to excellence, diversity, equity and inclusion; collaborate and cooperate with others to accomplish the goals of the college; and support new and creative ideas to enhance institutional effectiveness.

It is important that your application show all the relevant education and experience you possess. Please do not use "See Resume" or similar language in the job application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The college reserves the right to change or reassign job duties, or combine and / or eliminate positions at any time.

Applications received by Jan. 20 will be given first consideration; the position will remain open until filled.

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Benefits Summary for Eligible Grant Employees

This summary is solely intended to provide an overview of benefits offered by the college. In the case of a discrepancy, the information in the plan documents and the policy manual supersedes any description listed here.

Grant employees are eligible only for those benefits covered by the grant. Each grant is reviewed individually, and may include benefits from the listing below.

Medical Insurance

Full-time employees can elect to purchase subsidized medical coverage for themselves and their dependents effective the first of the month following the employee's date of hire.

Dental Insurance

Full-time employees can elect to purchase subsidized dental insurance for themselves and their dependents effective the first of the month following the employee's date of hire.

Vision Program

Full-time employees can elect to purchase voluntary vision insurance at their own expense for themselves and their dependents effective the first day of the month following the employee's date of hire.

Life Insurance

Full-time employees receive life insurance equal to one-and-a-half times the employee's annual salary, with a maximum benefit of $250,000, at no cost to the employee. Full-time employees can purchase additional life insurance at their own expense for themselves and their dependents at any time during their employment, pending approval from the provider.

Supplemental Insurance

All employees can purchase one or more of the supplemental insurance products offered by the college at their own expense for themselves and their dependents. Supplemental insurance provides an additional level of financial protection in the event of a serious accident or illness.

Flexible Spending Accounts

Full-time employees can obtain a medical reimbursement account and / or a dependent care assistance account effective the first of the month following the employee's date of hire. Employees do not need to enroll in the college's medical or dental plan to be eligible for flexible spending accounts.

Worker's Compensation

All employees are covered by worker's compensation insurance when they are involved in a work-related accident. Worker's compensation insurance covers medical care, rehabilitation and lost wages for employees or, in the case of a work-related death, death benefits for the employee's dependents, according to the specific terms of the insurance policy.

Short-term Disability Insurance

Full-time employees who have been employed by the college for at least one year are eligible for short-term disability coverage for non-occupational injuries or illnesses. Coverage begins after a 15-work day elimination period and all leave is exhausted, and ends 90 calendar days from the date of the injury or illness. Short-term disability benefits equal 60 percent of the employee's monthly salary, with a maximum benefit of $10,000 per month.

L ong-term Disability Insurance

Full-time employees receive long-term disability coverage for non-occupational injuries or illnesses, with coverage beginning after an employee has used all accumulated sick leave or has been disabled for 90 calendar days, whichever occurs later. Long-term disability benefits equal two-thirds of the employee's monthly salary, with a maximum benefit of $10,000 per month.

Retirement

Full-time support staff members are enrolled in the State Retirement and Pension System (SRPS) of Maryland. Seven percent of the employee's salary is deducted as a retirement contribution from each paycheck of all employees enrolled in the SRPS.

Full-time administrators and faculty can enroll in the State Retirement and Pension System (SRPS) of Maryland or the Maryland Optional Retirement Program (MORP) subject to approval by the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Seven percent of the employee's salary is deducted as a retirement contribution from each paycheck of all employees enrolled in the SRPS.

Supplemental Retirement Accounts

All employees who normally work 20 hours or more per week can make tax-deferred supplemental retirement contributions to any of the supplemental retirement funds offered by the college.

Credit Union

Full-time employees and their immediate family members can participate in the State Employees Credit Union (SECU). The SECU's definition of immediate family member, which includes the employee's parents, spouse, natural, step, adopted and foster children, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, parents of spouse, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, aunts and uncles, and nieces and nephews, is used in the implementation of this policy.

Annual Leave

Annual leave is earned on a prorated basis each pay period.

Full-time administrators earn annual leave at a rate of 20 days per year. Part-time administrators earn annual leave at a rate of 7.7 percent of the total hours worked per pay period.

Full-time faculty members who sign 12-month employment agreements earn annual leave at a rate of 20 days per year, but this leave cannot be taken when they are scheduled to teach classes. Full-time faculty members who sign 10-month employment agreements do not receive annual leave.

Full-time support staff members earn annual leave at a rate of 10 days per year during their first through fourth years of employment, 15 days per year during the fifth through ninth years and 20 days per year in the 10th and subsequent years. Part-time support staff members earn annual leave at a rate of 3.8 percent of the total hours worked per pay period during their first through fourth years of employment, 5.75 percent of total hours worked per pay period during the fifth through ninth years, and 7.7 percent of the total hours worked per pay period in 10th and subsequent years.

Sick Leave

Sick leave is earned on a prorated basis each pay period.

Full-time administrators and support staff members earn sick leave at a rate of 15 days per year.

Faculty members who sign 10-month employment agreements earn sick leave at a rate of 12.5 days per year. Full-time faculty members who sign 12-month employment agreements earn sick leave at a rate of 15 days per year. Part-time administrators and support staff members earn sick leave at a rate of 5.7 percent of the total hours worked per pay period.

Newly-hired employees who have been members of the Maryland State Retirement System at their last place of employment can transfer their accumulated sick leave to Wor-Wic if the time lapse between their previous employment and the college is less than four months and if a letter certifying the number of accumulated sick leave days is forwarded from the personnel office of the previous employer to the college within 60 days after the employee's starting date of employment. Sick leave transferred from other agencies has no cash value at the termination of employment at Wor-Wic.

Employees can use a maximum of 64 hours of accumulated sick leave per year for sick and safe leave. An employee is eligible to begin using sick and safe leave 107 calendar days after his or her hire date. If an employee is rehired by the college within 37 weeks of the employee's separation date, a maximum of 64 hours of unpaid and unused sick leave will be reinstated.

Personal Leave

Full-time employees earn personal leave at a rate of four days, or 30 hours, per year, prorated according to the employee's first day of employment. Part-time administrators and support staff members receive a proration of four personal days, prorated according to the employee's first day of employment, based on the employee's budgeted weekly hours.

Bereavement

Full-time employees are entitled to four work days of bereavement leave to attend the funeral and / or attend to the affairs of the deceased in the event of the death of an immediate family member. In the implementation of this policy, an immediate family member is defined as a spouse, child, parent, parent-in-law, son- or daughter-in-law, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild or any other relative living in the employee's household. One day of bereavement leave is granted to attend the funeral and / or attend to the affairs of the deceased in the event of the death of a relative not defined as an immediate family member.

Holidays

Full-time employees receive paid holidays. The college's 16 official college holidays include Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving and eight working days as a winter recess, which begins on or before Dec. 24 and includes Jan. 2 when Jan. 1 falls on a Sunday. Employees should consult the official calendar listing of holidays in the college catalog.

Military

Full-time employees and part-time administrators and support staff members who are in the uniformed services can take accrued annual or personal leave, or leave without pay, to serve in the uniformed services.

Court Duty

A full-time employee who is called to serve on a jury or is subpoenaed as a court witness to testify in a proceeding to which the employee or a related party is not personally involved is granted special leave with pay for the period that he or she is required to be in court, plus any necessary time for travel.

Employee Assistance Program

All employees and their household members can access free, confidential assistance to help with family, personal or professional problems. Services are available 24 hours per day, seven days per week, by calling (800) 327-2251.

Please select the highest level of education you have completed.

How many years of experience creating accessible instructional content in education or a related setting do you possess (as demonstrated by your work history)?

How many years of digital accessibility remediation experience do you possess (as demonstrated by your work history)?

How many years of experience do you have working in higher education (as demonstrated by your work history)?

How many years of your full-time work experience include creation of learning materials using a learning management system (as demonstrated by your work history)?)

Wor-Wic Community College celebrates a diverse workforce made up of individuals who embody our core values. We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate commitment to excellence, diversity, equity and inclusion; who can demonstrate effective collaboration and cooperation with others; and who can demonstrate the ability to support new and creative ideas to enhance institutional effectiveness. Please use the space below to provide an ESSAY answer in proper essay format, to the following : Assume that you are the successful candidate for this position and discuss, in your own words, how you would demonstrate these core values as an employee of Wor-Wic Community College. The search committee will use this information as part of the overall assessment of your application, so please be thoughtful and thorough in your response.

Do you hold a valid Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) credential?Attach a copy of your credential in the attachments section of this application.

This is a full-time position working on-campus in Salisbury, Maryland. Are you still interested in this position?

The starting salary for this position will likely fall between $63,200 - $77,550 per year depending on qualifications, experience and grant specifications. Are you still interested in this position?

Required Question

Salary : $63,200 - $77,550