Digital Accessibility- College Aide
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Job Description
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) funds programs to reduce the effects of poverty. DYCD works to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers by collaborating with community based organizations. DYCD invests in the talents and assets of our communities to help them develop grow and thrive. DYCD disseminates information on program and opportunities through its websites. DYCD also provides resources to community based organizations and vendors through its websites. DYCD seeks a college aide to support the agencys efforts to ensure websites and web content are accessible. This is a great opportunity to gain hands on experience while obtaining a college degree. Digital accessibility is the practice of making content systems and websites usable by everyone regardless of ability.The College Aide will work closely with the our accessibility and communications teams to identify assess and resolve accessibility issues within our websites and web content. Responsibilities include: Review applications and websites for compliance with accessibility standards. Collaborate with the team to provide recommendations for improving accessibility. Review public facing content (in MS Word PowerPoint Adobe PDF etc.) for compliance with accessibility standards. Execute recommendations to improve accessibility. Participate in training workshops and learning opportunities.
COLLEGE AIDE ASSIGNMENT LEVE 1020B
Qualifications :
For Assignment Level I:
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
For Assignment Level II (Information Technology):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology computer science management information systems data processing or closely related field including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.
For Assignment Level III (Information Technology Fellow):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology computer science management information systems data processing or other area relevant to the information technology project(s) assigned including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study. Appointments to this Assignment Level will be made by the Technology Steering Committee through the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
SPECIAL NOTE
Maximum tenure for all Assignment Levels in the title of College Aide is 6 years. No student shall be employed more than halftime in any week in which classes in which the student is enrolled are in session. Students may be employed fulltime during their vacation periods.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Parttime
Employment Type
Part-time
