Senior Accessibility Consultant, Campus Built Environment

Job Description

University Disability Resources (UDR) provides leadership to university efforts to ensure an accessible, welcoming working and learning environment for individuals with disabilities while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. UDR serves as a central resource on disability-related information, procedures and services for the University community and provides expertise in the development, implementation, and acquisition of standard disability-related University practices, procedures, and resources.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of UDR, the Senior Accessibility Consultant, Campus Built Environment, is a subject matter expert on programmatic and physical accessibility, as related to the built environment. The Senior Accessibility Consultant, Campus Built Environment, leads University efforts on compliance as well as best practices and promoting inclusive design.

Job-Specific Responsibilities:

• Plays a critical leadership role in the University’s campus-wide accessibility audit data management efforts; evaluation and assessment of barrier removal targets; oversight of plan implementation; and oversight of tracking progress towards a barrier-free campus.
• Engages with campus partners whose roles are critical in supporting physical accessibility, with the goal of designing and advancing a multi-year, University-wide strategy for barrier removal.
• Supports periodic evaluation of the Barrier Removal Framework Plan.
• Is a core member of the Harvard Capital Projects Review Committee (CPRC).
• Is a core member of the University Accessibility Committee’s Facilities Working Group.
• Guides Accessibility Consultants in their engagement with built environment accessibility consultations.
• Conducts site visits as appropriate.
• Assesses training/educational needs for internal partners and develops training materials and customized curricula.
• Tracks and synthesizes changes to relevant federal, state, and local accessibility regulations and standards.
• Conduct continuous research to remain current in technology, tools, and design solutions that increase accessibility in built environments.