Accommodations Administrator

Overview

The Dean's Office is the central administrative unit that provides leadership to Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Cummings School provides DVM, master's, and PhD degrees. We have internationally recognized research programs in animal and human health, comparative biomedical research, clinical research, infectious disease, and global health. The school has approximately 115 faculty members, 400 employees, and 450 students.

Cummings School and Tufts University are committed to diversity and inclusion. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations with regards to people with qualified disabilities, people with sincerely held religious beliefs, nursing mothers, qualified service animal requests, and immunization waivers. We provide appropriate academic accommodations to students with disabilities unless doing so would create an undue hardship, compromise the health and safety of members of the University community, or fundamentally alter the nature of academic programs or eliminate a technical standard essential to the program.

Cummings School of Veterinary is seeking an individual to help with administration and ongoing maintenance of our internal accommodations management system, maintenance and periodic review of our technical skills standards for DVM degrees to support our educational program and accreditation standards, delivery of accommodation assessments and services for students and trainees with disabilities. The Accommodations Administrator will play a key role as a primary resource to educate, train, and guide the school in understanding and providing disability access, rights, and responsibilities for students and others, especially in a clinical environment.

Responsibilities include a direct service responsibility to determine eligibility for and the development of individualized accommodation plans. The Accommodations Administrator will collaborate with staff and faculty around accommodation plans, and consultation with faculty and staff colleagues around best practices, reasonable accommodations and support of students needing accommodations. The key responsibilities of the Accommodations Administrator are to: administer and continuously improve the accommodations program and process for the Cummings School, lead the periodic review and revision of technical standards for DVM candidates, collaborate with faculty in developing a return to duty policy, receive requests for accommodations from students and to work with the student.

Determine, in conjunction with appropriate academic input, if accommodations are required and reasonable, identify and develop appropriate relevant, reasonable, and appropriate accommodations that comply with accreditation standards for students especially in clinical environments, and to communicate these decisions to the student and those who need to know in order to implement the accommodations in a way that supports the student's privacy and accommodation, particularly but not exclusively in the laboratory and clinical environments.

• Performs intake interviews to gain a foundational understanding of individual needs and evaluates information from medical and/or psychological professionals to determine eligibility for accommodations.
• Primarily responsible for the interactive process, including consulting with the student, school personnel, health care professionals, and with faculty and other relevant staff on a need-to-know and confidential basis to develop reasonable accommodations, where possible, and communicate the information to those requiring the information. Receives and works to address and resolve concerns pertaining to the disability accommodation process or provision of approved accommodations, including referring matters to the OEO, as appropriate.
• Create and manage a HIPPA protected environment to maintain confidential student medical, religious, and health-related documentation in accordance with applicable laws and university policies.
• Develop and provide programs, resources, and services to ensure the accessibility of the school academic environment for students. Educate the campus community…