Level 4 Digital Accessibility Specialist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:
193436

**Salary**:
£17,250 - £17,350

**Grade**:
Administrative Assistant

**Contract type**:
Apprenticeship

**Type of role**:
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:
Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of posts**:
1

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Location

Exeter, South West (region), EX1 3PB

About the job

**Summary**:
We're hiring for a Level 4 Digital Accessibility Specialist Apprenticeship based in Exeter HQ with hybrid remote working available.

A Level 4 Digital Accessibility Specialist Apprenticeship can offer you the support, training and industry-recognised qualifications to get you on the path to a career in the Digital profession.

We are recruiting for one Level 4 Digital Accessibility Specialist Apprentice in Exeter, with some flexibility on location.

**Job description**:
As a Level 4 apprentice, your starting salary will be £17,250 in Year 1, increasing to £17,350 in Year 2. You will have the opportunity to spend up to 27 months working with our People Development and KIM Teams, and others across the Met Office, enabling us to embed digital accessibility in everything we do.

Our aspiration is a working culture which actively values difference and unlocks the potential of a diverse workforce. In a nutshell, we recognise that great minds don’t think alike, and we want all of our people to feel valued.

We are always striving to achieve a culture that values ability, difference, openness, fairness, transparency and inclusivity, aiming to go beyond the statutory and legal requirements. Improving our equality, diversity and inclusion is a major strategic initiative at the Met Office, reflecting the commitment to, and investment in, continuous improvement from our leadership.

We continually assess and improve our policies, procedures and practices to enable all individuals to perform to the best of their ability, while creating a positive, engaging and inclusive working environment alongside a great experience for our partners and customers. Evolving our digital accessibility approach is a key to this.

We are the Met Office, the national meteorological service for the UK. We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. Our services are delivered through exceptional scientific, technological and operational expertise. We have a team of excellent people, working to deliver extraordinary impact, making us one of the most trusted forecasters in the world.

Our values - it’s who we are:

- We’re a force for good
- We’re experts by nature
- We live and breathe it
- We’re better together
- We keep evolving

This post is for a fixed term period of up to 27 months and is part of a formal apprenticeship programme.

When would the apprenticeship start and how does it work?

We would look for you to join us in September with your apprenticeship training beginning the same month. Options for flexible working patterns are available, but you will be required to dedicate the equivalent of one day a week to off-the-job training with the registered training provider.

As our Level 4 Digital Accessibility Specialist Apprenticeship, the key duties are:

- To provide advice on accessibility best practice, helping the Met Office to meet organisational, national and international accessibility standards and to work with others to help ensure an inclusive user experience and compliance with relevant legislation.
- Collaborate with others (internally and externally) at all levels to provide guidance on accessibility best practice helping us to meet organisational, national and international accessibility standards and guidelines to ensure an inclusive user experience and compliance with relevant legislation - essential criteria.
- Raise awareness of digital accessibility via multiple channels and methods (for example presentations, workshops, focus groups, personal and organisational documentation and training) on both digital accessibility standards and assistive technologies (both software and hardware-based).
- Provide advice and assistance to colleagues across the organisation on how to create accessible information assets (digital or non-digital), communications and materials.
- Seek and collate feedback and analyse issues and risks that act as barriers to the use and/or deployment of assistive technology and/or the creation of accessible information assets.

**Responsibilities**:
Essential criteria - We are looking for people who:
1. Can work independently and as part of a team.

2. Are committed to solving problems, are not afraid to ask questions and are ready to rise to new challenges.

3. Have a passion for personal development and helping others to learn.

4. Have the communication skills needed to effectively undertake the collaboration, advising and educating of others as defined in the job responsibilities.

5. Have at least five GCSEs grades A* - C (9 - 4) or equivalent. These should in