Manager, Accessible Education Services
Dead Line: May 7, 2022
- Masters’ Degree in Social Sciences or related program with a focus on disability studies preferred as well as additional formal and specialized training in human rights including intersectionality as a framework for understanding and analysing how aspects of identities create unique modes of discrimination and discriminatory impacts.
- 5 years' experience in the following areas:
- Progressive work experience, including working with AODA legislation and/or accommodation of persons with disabilities.
- Knowledge of the Accessibility Fund for Students with Disabilities (AFSD), Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and associated Regulations.
- Knowledge of associated legislation; OHRC, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, AODA as it pertains to ensuring protection under the law for persons with disabilities.
- Direct experience working and advocating with equity-seeking communities.
- Must be a skilled communicator and relationship builder who is able to use empathy, patience, tact and diplomacy when addressing highly sensitive and confidential matters.
- Strong understanding and passion for human rights issues and advocacy, and principles of trauma-informed social justice.
- Project management experience with a high degree of organization.
- Able to work independently and to maintain professional boundaries.
- Demonstrated self-sufficiency in desktop applications such as Microsoft Office is required.
- Conflict resolution, mediation, negotiation and facilitation experience.
- Experience working with people who have been impacted by violence.
- Knowledge of provincial and national issues, initiatives, current research, and thinking as it relates to accessible education services within post-secondary institutions.
- Proven leadership, analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to exercise sound judgment in complex and often crisis situations.
- Knowledge of and experience with the reporting requirements of government funding agencies, including grant writing.
- Proven ability to supervise and manage the work of others, including addressing performance issues.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of case management and counselling modalities.
- Experience and/or training in outcome-based program/service planning and evaluation.
- Experience conducting, adjudicating, and documenting human rights investigations.
- Experience in higher education is an asset.
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