Accessibility Consultant

Accessibility Consultant

Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn MD. Selected candidate must be willing to work onsite at least 2 days a week.

Key Required Skills:

Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (508 WCAG ADA) user research requirements gathering special projects process improvement JAWS ANDI ARIA universal design service design

Position Description:

• Advise on defining standardizing & implementing accessibility activities across the enterprise and within the Customer Experience (CX) Team and in a way that is compatible with the agencys approach to product management.
• Using industry best practices and benchmarking with private sector entities provide strategic consulting on conducting customer research related to accessibility and identifying and applying accessibility insights and recommendations from customer research/discovery sessions to guide service design.
• Provide guidance developing research plans such as inclusion of accessibilityspecific questions in surveys and interviews.
• Provide accessibility strategic support in our CX programs human centered design (HCD) activities with our different stakeholders.
• Participate in internal team working sessions and executive level meetings to gather feedback present findings and propose solutions.
• Provide strategic advisory and mentoring/Coaching to internal staff in accessibility utilizing current industry best practices case studies lessons learned and opensource tools to build our employee skills so they can become mature and do this work on their own.
• Review and provide input on prepared government documents and presentations for accessibility feedback and comments.

Skills Requirements:

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills allowing for individual to identify analyze troubleshoot and respond to complex problems while supporting users accurately and efficiently.
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Bachelors degree and 12 Years of relevant work experience OR Masters degree and 10 Years of relevant work experience as an Accessibility Consultant or a minimum of 18 years related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Other Certification (optional but preferred): DHS Trusted Tester.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)

• These skills will help you succeed in this position:
• Minimum of 6 years of experience supporting accessibility standards including Section 508 WCAG 2.0/2.1 and ARIA guidelines
• Minimum of 6 years of experience conducting accessibility assessments audits and user testing with a deep understanding of common assistive technologies and accessibility testing tools.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience implementing and utilizing various accessibility tools including but not limited to JAWS ANDI NVDA and ZoomText
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting accessibility efforts for a federal government agency or similar organization
• Ability to prioritize and complete assignments independently meet deadlines and manage multiple changing priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Ability to support multiple projects at the same time each with their own unique set of requirements and needs.
• Ability to be flexible and react appropriately to changing job assignments work environments and work locations.
• Consistently demonstrates a positive supportive and constructive attitude with both internal and external customers as well as peers.
• Ability to write technical documentation and plain language documentation dependent on audience.
• Selfmotivated taskdriven and able to quickly learn new skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of navigating and adapting to unique constraints (i.e. policy infrastructure)

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)

• Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
• Understanding of UX and user research methodologies
• Experience with the Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience with service design methodology
• Support and troubleshooting of mobile devices (Android iOS)
• Prior experience supporting government agencies.
• Understanding of agile framework and full lifecycle software development methodologies
• Project management certifications (PMP CAPM PMI)

Education:

Bachelors degree and 12 Years of relevant work experience OR Masters degree and 10 Years of relevant work experience as an Accessibility Consultant or a minimum of 18 years related experience in lieu of a degree.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Leesburg Virginia Zenius Corporation is a HUBZonecertified small business. Zenius specializes in providing Grants Management IT Modernization Acquisition Management and Financial Management services to Federal agencies. Zenius is selected by Inc 5000 as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the DC Metro Area award for two years in a row 2021 and 2020. Zenius is also listed by Financial Times as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the Americas in 2021. Zenius is an awardee of 2019 Best of Leesburg winner (Business Management Consultant category). Learn more at.

BENEFITS

Zenius Corporation is a very employeeoriented company. Join us now and help us grow!

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays and paid time off medical insurance including health vision dental insurance 401K matching Flexible Spending Account and flexible schedules as per business needs. We also work with our employees on training and professional certification plans that benefit the employee.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Zenius Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Zenius complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Zenius Corporation expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status.