Accessibility Specialist

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Sector: Diversity and Equality

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base can be any BBC main location. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact us.

Job Purpose

Are you passionate about accessibility and inclusive design for digital products? Do you want to work for an organisation that is 'Accessible First', removing barriers for people with disabilities and impairments? Have you got experience working as a digital accessibility professional, with an understanding of specialist assistive technologies?

If you answered yes to all the above, then we have a role for you! We are investing in our staff facing accessibility team and have an exciting opportunity for an Accessibility Specialist, to help us deliver ambitious plans to further enhance our Accessibility and Assistive Technology provision across the BBC.

Main Responsibilities

• Assess digital products and services to make sure they work with the BBC's supported assistive technology platform (e.g. JAWS, Dragon Professional and ZoomText).
• Build relationships with internal product teams and help them plan a roadmap toward making their products accessible.
• Support Procurement as a subject matter expert (SME) when reviewing all accessibility requirements to be met by vendors when supplying the BBC with technology, in accordance with our Technology Accessibility Policy.
• Work with third-party suppliers of technology to the BBC, championing accessibility.

Are you the right candidate?

You will need a strong understanding of assistive technologies and knowledge in the technical background of accessibility including WCAG, WAI-Aria, HTML and CSS. You have a strong attention to detail, good judgement along with the resilience and tenacity to support procurement and product teams. You will be able to ensure all technology at the BBC meets the Technology Accessibility Policy. You are comfortable engaging at all levels of an organisation and communicating complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience. You are passionate about ensuring the BBC is truly accessible for all our colleagues.

Job Impact

Interviews expected to be held week commencing 7 April. These will be one stage and held virtually, incorporating a mix of our BBC Values and technical questions.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.