Head of Accessibility and Inclusion
Our client, a large finance organisation, is looking to recruit a Head of Accessibility and Inclusion on a contract basis. The role can be based out of London or Swindon, with 2 days per week in office.
Our client is looking for someone with demonstrable experience in embedding digital accessibility thinking into a large complex organisation - someone who's created a clear strategy, training and education programme and execution plan before - from must do activities, such as fixing digital accessibility gaps across many complex and fragmented digital applications, to embedding and distilling an 'inclusive first' approach to designing and developing new platforms across the society. It's fair to say that we are dedicated to driving real momentum in this space, however we need some help bring our vision to life.
Responsibilities will include:
- Provide consulting support to teams responsible for digital touchpoints across the business on what is required to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA standards.
- Ensure that all our client's digital platforms have been consistently accredited on a regular basis through our partnerships with the Digital Accessibility Centre and AbilityNet.
- Support the development of a clear and up to date accessibility statement, highlighting assistive technologies that we support, documenting any exceptions that are required
- Get 'buy in' from senior stakeholders including finance for its prioritisation and approval.
- Provide expertise in ensuring that the business has all of the skills and techniques to confidently design and build accessible and inclusive digital experiences. This will ensure that don't just fix accessibility one, and fall back to old habits, but change our behaviours forever.
- Provide thought leadership on the next steps that the society could take to evolve it's digital inclusion strategy and maturity.
Required experience
- Experience in a similar role, leading, implementing and delivering an Accessibility strategy across large private sector organisations (finance sector preferable)
- Experience of embedding WCAG 2.2 AA standards into all digital touch points.
- Experience of working with teams across a large complex organisation to embed accessibility and inclusion thinking into teams through training, collaboration and consulting.
- Experience of defining a digital inclusion strategy beyond ensuring compliance against core accreditation criteria/standards.
- Experience of working with stakeholders across many different disciplines including but not limited to engineering, design, content, management, brand, marketing, finance, legal, risk and compliance.