Accommodations Coordinator

Hiring Department

The Disability Center serves as a leader in advocating for equal access of Mizzou's students with disabilities. Through collaboration, we facilitate the provision of accommodations to students, offer educational programming, and provide consultation to the university community.

The Accommodations Coordinator for the Disability Center is responsible for coordination and implementation of specific accommodations for students with disabilities, peer note taking, alternative textbook formats, communication access, and accessible furniture. The Accommodation Coordinator meets with students with temporary disabilities to establish eligibility for accommodations and provides help sessions to both students and faculty on the utilization of our student database (my Access/AIM).

The Accommodations Coordinator hires, trains and supervises student employees, and functions as a team member within the Disability Center in the development and implementation of processes necessary to accomplish the goals and philosophy of the department and the University.

Specific Responsibilities:

Coordination of Accommodations:

The Accommodations Coordinator holds primary responsibility for not only coordinating specific accommodations, but also reviewing and making recommendations to change office processes related to these accommodations to ensure efficiency and best practices in their work.

Specific accommodation coordination and tasks include, but are not limited to:

Alternative Formats

Coordinate with the IT Accessibility Center to ensure timely delivery of alternative formats to students.

Coordinate acquisition and disposition of textbooks and other materials requiring conversion, working through the bookstore, publisher resources and other entities.

Work with external vendors to ensure timely conversion of Braille and tactile materials.

Note taking Assistance

Provide students with access to approved note taking software; develop and offer help sessions to support students in effectively utilizing programming.

Maintain regular communication with all assigned volunteer peer note-takers and eligible students to ensure that the process is operating smoothly and consistently.

Problem-solve with students and faculty on issues related to note taking accommodations.

Oversee recruitment, assignment and training of note-takers for eligible students, utilizing email communication to instructors, presentations to classes and other appropriate methods.

Monitor uploaded notes for timeliness, quality and consistency.

Coordinate the compensation process for all note takers, using appropriate assessment tools.

Communication Access

Schedule services with different captioning and interpreting vendors depending on structure of academic courses

Communicate with instructors, staff, and vendors regarding captioning and interpreting needs each semester

Receive and check accuracy of invoices received for communication access services provided before forwarding on for payment

Accessible Furniture and Equipment

Work with Campus Facilities and building coordinators across campus to assess current classroom furniture and placement to meet student accommodations.

Supervise process to loan accessible equipment, such as FM Systems, to students

Student Employee Supervision

Manage the full employment cycle for student employees, including recruitment, hiring, supervision, scheduling, performance review, and separations

Collaborate with the office support assistant and other staff on student employee tasks and assignments to ensure proper support and coverage

Temporary Accommodations:

Through an interactive process with students with temporary disabilities, the accommodations coordinator determines eligibility for and identifies…