Consultant - Special Assistance to Disability Inclusion Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Navigation and Environmental Guidance: Provide verbal information to a visually impaired person about their environment during indoor activities and while traveling.
• Communication Support: Assist with correspondence and reading/writing tasks required to support a blind person at work, including reading signage, printed documents, and wall-mounted information.
• Document Accessibility: Convert materials from inaccessible formats into alternative accessible formats.
• Administrative Assistance: Help prepare PowerPoint presentations, edit and format documents, and manage filing systems.
• Activity Support: Assist in the preparation and conduct of workshops or trainings, including photocopying, distributing materials, writing on flip charts, and taking photographs.
• Information Management: Transcribe information from flip charts or workshop materials into computer files.
• Technological Support: Help the Specialist overcome barriers related to workplace technologies to ensure effective inclusion.
• Calendar Management: Continuously update the Program Specialist's contact database and professional calendar.
• Travel Assistance: Accompany the Specialist to both national and international meetings and events.
• General Support: Undertake related activities as assigned by the Disability Inclusion Specialist.