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Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid working - flexible from any BBC office location: London, Newcastle, Salford, Glasgow, Cardiff
Salary: GBP45,000 - 60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
Employee assistance and well-being programmes
Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from under represented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on with the job reference in the subject.
Job Impact
Are you strong in the ways of WCAG?
Are you fed up with Accessibility being just a tick box exercise?
If you have very strong communication and stakeholder management skills that allow you to engage with people and teams across different levels and capabilities, then this is the job for you!
This is a new role in the BBC and will play a key in role in delivering an ambitious program to develop and enhance our existing staff facing accessibility services.
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Accessibility Specialist to support the delivery of our internal accessibility consultancy service.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
You will be the 'face of accessibility', leading on accessibility testing and auditing, supporting our procurement teams and engaging with external vendors to provide information and guidance on our requirements and standards to ensure that the Technology Accessibility Policy is followed. You will also provide advice and guidance to internal product owners and solutions managers, ensuring that internal products we design for colleagues are fit for purpose from day one.
On a typical day you can expect to:
- Lead accessibility activities including testing/auditing
- Provide accessibility consultancy to internal teams and guidance to external vendors
- Support procurement to ensure that the Technology Accessibility Policy is followed
- Provide Ad hoc accessibility support to internal colleagues where required - Signposting to relevant resources
- Training colleagues in accessibility related subjects such as basic testing, accessible html, Aria and assistive technologies
- Support operations team and other team members
- Be our resident BBC Accessibility expert
The ideal candidate will be collaborative, resilient, patient and demonstrate good negotiation and diplomatic skills, being able to influence colleagues and senior stakeholders across the organisation to appreciate the opportunities of prioritising a user-centred accessible design approach.
As well as testing and auditing products there will also be an element of coaching too, sharing knowledge with colleagues in accessibility related subjects such as basic testing, accessible html, Aria and assistive technologies as well as providing ad-hoc accessibility support to colleagues where required, for example signposting to relevant internal resources.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Thorough understanding of WCAG 2.1 with knowledge of 2.2 - Applying accessibility principles across all digital products, not just web pages
- Accessibility testing and auditing - Desktop and mobile technologies
- Strong experience of multiple assistive technologies - JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, Dragon, ZoomText - Must be proficient with screen reader and keyboard navigation
- HTML, CSS and ARIA experience (JavaScript is useful, but not essential)
- Report writing - Ability to write compelling documents with technical authority
- Stakeholder management - Including software vendors and third parties
- Strong communication skills with a creative, pragmatic and methodical approach
The BBC is delivering against it's plan to become the industry gold standard for workplace diversity and inclusion. At the BBC we are committed to creating an inclusive workforce, by reflecting and representing the diversity of the UK. Hiring over 21,000 people globally, the BBC is for everyone and should include everyone whatever their background. We are a diverse organisation and have much to be proud of, but we are also challenging ourselves to ensure that Diversity and Inclusion is hardwired into everything the BBC does.
If we get it right, it will be evident in how we work with our audiences, our people and our partners.
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.
We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
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.
