Digital Accessibility Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 261285**Salary**:

- £36,018 - £41,866**Job grade**:

- Other- Band D**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 2 years**Business area**:

- HES - Marketing & Engagement**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing
- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- EdinburghAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Tasked with establishing a new organisation-wide process and raising the profile of digital accessibility, you will work with internal teams and third-party suppliers to ensure Historic Environment Scotland consistently delivers inclusive and accessible digital content to our audiences. You will be a champion for encouraging best practice and innovation in digital accessibility solutions, raising standards through advice and training, and leading on the development of an internal digital accessibility champions network.**Job description**:

- Digital accessibility audit_
- Procure and/or liaise with suppliers to arrange an initial accessibility audit, statement, and disproportionate burden statement for a selection of templates from one or two websites/ apps to ensure a professional audit which can be later used as a template for further in-house audits
- Produce and maintain a log of remedial work required across the HES digital estate
- Work with suppliers and internal HES IT to receive initial cost and time estimates for remedial work required and thereafter work with product owners and content authors to plan, oversee, and test this work to ensure compliance
- Compile and publish accessibility and disproportionate burden statements to comply with accessibility regulations, revisiting all existing website and app statements to ensure compliance
- Maintain a log of all new developments across the HES Digital estate which will form part of the annual accessibility audit
- Set-up and provide regular accessibility checking of our digital estate using Monsido
- Organisational engagement_
- Provide practical support for colleagues on how to make digital content accessible
- Advise staff on appropriate external training opportunities as well as scoping and delivering internal training and advisory sessions
- Work with departments throughout HES, including Internal Comms and Equalities, to raise the profile of and standards for Digital Accessibility across the organisation
- Recruit and support an internal network of digital accessibility champions
- Working with internal stakeholders, lead on the development of a new digital accessibility strategy and policy for HES
- Collaborate with colleagues to identify relevant internal workflows for content creation and digital developments and, where required, implement new processes for ensuring digital accessibility standards have been considered
- New technology platforms_
- Provide advice to colleagues when procuring and developing new technology platforms to ensure they can meet accessibility legislation. You may be invited to sit on scoring panels for the tendering of new technology systems.
- New standards and guidelines_
- Play an active role in the accessibility community, keeping up-to-date with standards and demonstrating thought leadership in order to ensure HES remains legally compliant.

**Person specification**:
**_ Essential requirements:_**
- Practical and proven experience of auditing websites for accessibility, writing and publishing accessibility statements
- Experience of liaising with external suppliers or internal IT teams
- Knowledge and practical experience of creating accessible and inclusive content across a range of channels from websites and apps to social media channels, in order to provide guidance, support and training to colleagues producing content for both external and internal audiences
- Experience of using a website content management system
- Experience of delivering training to in-house teams, enthusing others and upskilling colleagues
- Able to inspire and lead a team of internal accessibility champions to deliver significant positive change in the use of accessible digital content
- Excellent organisational and planning skills, can work flexibly, think creatively to solve problems, and demonstrate sound judgement
- Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills, experience of working in teams with staff at all levels, presenting and influencing
- Excellent written communication skills

**_Desirable requirements:_**
- Experience of leading or supervising a team
- Experience of using Monsido or similar tool
- Experience of selecting and appraising suppliers
- Experience of conducting user testing and ability to use data to inform decision making

**Benefits**:
In addition we offer a great benefits package to our employees which includes:

- flexible working hours (where appropriate)
- special leave
- maternity/paternity leave
- adoption leave
- reimbursement f