What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital Accessibility Services Manager Lead position at University of Michigan?
How to Apply
A cover letter and resume are important submissions for the hiring team to get a sense of your experience. In the cover letter, in one page or less, please let us know how this role aligns with your career aspirations and skills. Submit both a cover letter and resume as one file.
Competitive salary available based on qualifications, experience and education of the selected candidate.
Job Summary
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager Lead is a lead position in the ITS Accessibility Team at the University of Michigan.
ITS Accessibility provides tools, knowledge, and support services that allow U-M to deliver digital accessibility and equitable access for people with disabilities. We are a team with expertise in accessibility standards, design best practices, assistive technology, accessibility testing, disability experience, and more. We work collaboratively and individually to implement solutions and manage services that meet the evolving needs of U-M, and to respond to user requests and issues related to accessibility.
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager supports a skilled team and manages a suite of accessibility services, overseeing daily operations, service management, and project implementation. This role serves as an escalation point for customer and vendor issues, prioritizes team work, maintains technical documentation, and administers cloud platforms. The Lead collaborates with partners and subject matter experts to define and improve services, ensuring best practices and effective delivery across the organization.
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager reports to the Assistant Director of Accessibility.
Who We Are
ITS supports U-M faculty, researchers, staff, and students in their use of technology to teach, learn, research, work, and be leaders in their fields. ITS works together to provide a cohesive digital experience and seamless support to the U-M community. For more information, please visit our website: https://its.umich.edu/about
Why Work at Michigan?
Benefits
In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family and plan for a secure future. Benefits include:
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
Underfill Statement
UM- ITS welcomes a healthy applicant pool so we encourage all interested applicants to apply. This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.
Application Deadline
Job openings are posted for at least seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
A cover letter and resume are important submissions for the hiring team to get a sense of your experience. In the cover letter, in one page or less, please let us know how this role aligns with your career aspirations and skills. Submit both a cover letter and resume as one file.
Competitive salary available based on qualifications, experience and education of the selected candidate.
Job Summary
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager Lead is a lead position in the ITS Accessibility Team at the University of Michigan.
ITS Accessibility provides tools, knowledge, and support services that allow U-M to deliver digital accessibility and equitable access for people with disabilities. We are a team with expertise in accessibility standards, design best practices, assistive technology, accessibility testing, disability experience, and more. We work collaboratively and individually to implement solutions and manage services that meet the evolving needs of U-M, and to respond to user requests and issues related to accessibility.
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager supports a skilled team and manages a suite of accessibility services, overseeing daily operations, service management, and project implementation. This role serves as an escalation point for customer and vendor issues, prioritizes team work, maintains technical documentation, and administers cloud platforms. The Lead collaborates with partners and subject matter experts to define and improve services, ensuring best practices and effective delivery across the organization.
The Digital Accessibility Services Manager reports to the Assistant Director of Accessibility.
Who We Are
ITS supports U-M faculty, researchers, staff, and students in their use of technology to teach, learn, research, work, and be leaders in their fields. ITS works together to provide a cohesive digital experience and seamless support to the U-M community. For more information, please visit our website: https://its.umich.edu/about
Why Work at Michigan?
Benefits
In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family and plan for a secure future. Benefits include:
- Generous time off
- A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions
- Many choices for comprehensive health insurance
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
- Maternity and Parental Leaves
- Vision and Dental Insurance
- Coordinate and manage performance of high functioning team of technology professionals and additional student/temp employees
- Perform Service Management activities for services in the Accessibility portfolio, meet success metrics, act as escalation point for customer/vendor issues, prioritize operational work and ticket management to ensure incidents, problems, and changes are communicated and resolved
- Prioritize team work, develop implementation plans for projects, provide status reports, exchange relevant information with partners, meet timelines and identify risk
- Perform domain level administration of cloud platforms with responsibility over top level functions, account operations, settings configuration, documentation of policy and procedures, and technical rollout of new features
- Maintain written procedures, processes, and technical support knowledge with content tailored to the level and type of target audience
- Manage Accessibility process, ensuring other ITS services engage with team members
- Work with subject matter experts to define new services, continually improve service operation and delivery
- 5 years working in a role providing end-user technical support.
- 3 years in a role with responsibilities managing people and processes
- Service management/ownership experience with an enterprise wide technology service
- Perform day-to-day administration tasks, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and service restoration
- Demonstrated excellent attention to detail.
- Demonstrated excellent customer service skills.
- Strong writing/communication skills with the ability to deliver clear messaging to a variety of audiences/skill levels.
- Interest in accessibility
- Experience administering and/or providing tier 2/tier 3 support for enterprise level platforms
- Subject matter expertise in digital accessibility or general accessibility
- Experience working in a higher education institution
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
Underfill Statement
UM- ITS welcomes a healthy applicant pool so we encourage all interested applicants to apply. This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.
Application Deadline
Job openings are posted for at least seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Salary : $87,000 - $103,000
