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Senior Instructional Designer, Accessibility

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Join McGraw Hill as a Senior Instructional Designer, Accessibility, where you'll play a crucial role in developing accessible educational resources for K-12 students and teachers. This remote position offers the opportunity to impact educational technology and student success on a grand scale.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Responsibilities: Coordinate cross-functional teams to oversee accessibility compliance projects, manage schedules, communicate solutions, and mentor peers in accessibility best practices.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Skills: Must have experience in authoring accessible products, knowledge of accessibility tools, basics of web development (HTML/CSS), and strong problem-solving abilities.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; 2+ years in accessible product design preferred. Accessibility certification is also preferred.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Location: This is a fully remote position, but candidates can also be based in McGraw Hill offices in the United States.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Compensation: $62000 - $80000 / Annually



Overview

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Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of others? The McGraw Hill Senior Instructional Designer, Accessibility will help remediate and develop print and digital solutions that are accessible to all students and teachers. This is a unique opportunity to have a far-reaching impact on student success as well as impact the educational technology industry.

What is this role about?

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for a Senior Instructional Designer, Accessibility for our K-12 division. 

This position is fully remote but can also be based in one of our McGraw Hill offices. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) position. Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

The ideal candidate for the Senior Instructional Designer, Accessibility position will apply their expertise in digital academic design, content authoring, and accessibility to help bring McGraw Hill School programs into accessibility compliance by creating a consistent and scalable accessibility strategy and practice throughout the remediation of existing products. Passion, patience and empathy are also essential to lead McGraw Hill in improving the digital experience for all uses.

What you will be doing: 

  • Coordinate a cross-functional team of instructional designers, product design, production specialists, SMEs and accessibility team members to complete large scale accessibility and remediation projects across portfolios.
  • Monitor working team progress on audit remediation work and adherence to schedules. Partner with project management to ensure audits and remediation are meeting deadlines and deliverables.
  • Identify remediation solutions that balance compliance, scalability, project priorities, and scope of work for portfolio. Communicate solutions to stakeholders when necessary.
  • Help prioritize and problem solve difficult remediation solutions that require collaboration between multiple groups at McGraw Hill. Ability to understand a problem from multiple perspectives to find solutions that balances multiple, sometimes competing, priorities.
  • Collaborate with product experts and product managers to define representative samples for each program.
  • Represent the school team to problem solve platform solutions required for compliance.
  • Develop a deep expertise on accessibility best practices and how they relate to McGraw Hill content, authoring tools, and build workflows. Identify and share common accessibility solutions across programs and portfolios and serve as a mentor and advocate for accessibility best practices across the company.
  • Understand, give feedback, and resolve product issues related to accessibility, keeping the instructional integrity of the products intact.
  • Mentor peers on accessibility best practices as needed.
  • Work within ambiguous environments, including adapting to new challenges, scenarios, and working styles.

We’re looking for someone with: 

  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
  • 2+ years of experience in authoring accessible products.
  • Ability to use accessibility tools (for example, JAWS, NVDA, Wave, screen magnifiers, speech recognition software, and Lighthouse) to test out possible solutions and troubleshoot accessibility gaps. 
  • A strong understanding of web development basics (especially HTML and CSS).
  • Ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete, manageable components and think through optimal solutions.
  • Ability to analyze content, such videos, pdfs and interactives, to ensure it was built accessibly, identify issues, and suggest solutions.
  • Strong listening skills; open to input from other team members and departments.
  • Ability to lead through influence.
  • Accessibility certification preferred.

Here’s what we offer:

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions.   

The pay range for this position is between $62,000 - $80,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.”

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