Aps6 Digital Accessibility Officer

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $94,332 - $103,731

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

**About the Division**
The Digital Solutions Division (DSD) designs, builds, maintains, and supports large-scale (enterprise) specialised software systems used by departmental staff and businesses to provide quality services to job seekers and employers; respond to national future skills needs through access to VET graduates with the right skills; reduce barriers to undertaking quality VET; administer and implement programs and services related to Workplace Support.

**The Role**
As a **Digital Accessibility Officer**, you will work as part of an accessibility team helping multiple delivery teams to build accessible and inclusive enterprise class systems for the department.

In a predominantly Microsoft and Azure technology environment, you will work in an agile based environment with UI/UX Designers, Service Designers, Business and System Analysts, Software Designers and Developers, SCRUM Teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, and System Users to advocate for, review, assess, maintain, and support Digital Accessibility of the department’s enterprise systems.

You will understand digital diversity and have a passion for accessibility with the necessary technical skills to assess software accessibility and to propose and manage specific requirements throughout the systems development and sustainment lifecycles. You will advocate and champion accessibility throughout the department and Australian Public Service (APS), raise awareness, liaise with various stakeholders to ensure that accessibility is a priority.

The successful applicant will receive the necessary training, mentoring, and guidance to perform the key responsibilities of the role and to advance their careers in the Australian Public Service (APS).

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the **APS6 Level** may include:

- Work under limited supervision.
- Participate in agile ceremonies.
- Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
- Work with delivery and sustainment teams to identify opportunities for accessibility improvements.
- Perform accessibility reviews of design wireframes, prototypes, developed interfaces, and existing systems.
- Use assistive technologies such as screen readers (desktop, mobile), speech recognition software, operating system, and browser accessibility features, etc, to assess accessibility compliance and needs.
- Create and manage accessibility work items using Azure DevOps
- Collaborate with delivery team members to produce quality work.
- Work within the department’s delivery framework.
- Supervise and support less experienced staff.

**Qualifications and Education**
**Mandatory**
- There are no mandatory knowledge requirements for this position.
- Knowledge of WCAG 2.2
- Knowledge of WAI-ARIA, accessibility patterns and best practices.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS.

**Desirable**
- Tertiary qualifications in a related field.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than **500 **words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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