American Civil Liberties Union
Disability, Accessibility & Inclusion Manager
New York, New York, United States · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role
- Remote candidates may be considered for this position.
- The DAI Manager is privy to confidential information, including staff survey results and disability-related staff experience.
- The position requires strong collaboration and sustained engagement to effectively influence practice and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Support the communication of the DAI team's projects, initiatives, and accomplishments across the organization, ensuring consistent and transparent messaging that highlights progress, key milestones, and the impact of the DAI team's leadership
- Help drive project management for specified large DAI-centered cross-departmental and cross-organizational, multi-team, primarily internal-facing projects and initiatives including DAI Steering Committee, working or project groups
- Manage DAI projects, ensure they meet objectives, engage appropriate stakeholders, and effectively communicate status, risks, and deliverables
- Lead and conduct yearly organization-wide audits of ACLU practices to assess gaps in workplace accessibility and inclusion, assessing areas of attention and developing action plans to address
- The role partners closely with departments across the organization to embed DAI practices into policies, practices, and ways of working.
- Success in this role depends on the ability to manage complex initiatives while fostering long-term commitment to DAI across the organization.
- Function as a thought partner and collaborator with the SDDAI on developing direct resources and providing informed, expert consultation to the organization on best practices for workplace accommodations, recruiting and hiring staff with disabilities, creating accessible trainings, and confronting ableism and ableist language, etc.
- Work in concert with the Affiliate Support & Nationwide Initiatives team to provide support and resources for affiliates to integrate DAI principles and practices
- Serve as the entry point for internal DAI conflict resolution, and assist in developing and providing resources to promote the successful execution of various conflict resolutions
- Act as a key DAI partner and advisor in programmatic and departmental initiatives
Benefits
- In addition to program management, the DAI Manager will play a key role in supporting organizational culture change by building trust-based relationships, providing guidance and education, and staff support.
- Support the DAI Strategic Plan vision and project management, seeking to align it with the ACLU's overall strategic direction
- Collect, monitor, and report on data regarding disability, accessibility, and inclusion goals as well as recruitment, hiring, and attrition trends in collaboration with the HR team
- Serve as a primary liaison to the Disability Employee Resource Group (ERG)
- Develop, lead, and evaluate DAI-focused training curriculum and workshops for national staff on topics including but not limited to ableism, disability justice, and inclusion by design
Equal opportunity
- Monitor alignment of ACLU's policies and practices with disability law, regulations, the ACLU's internal disability affirmative action policy, and industry best practices
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