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Disability Support Services Assistant

Official Job Description

Disability Support Services Assistant

Supervised by: Director of Disability Support Services

Department: Disability Support Services

Grade: E

Category: Part time Support

Status: Non-Exempt

Function of the Job

Performs responsible administrative duties for disability support services.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Assist students in using adaptive and assistive technologies.
  2. Create documents using assistive technologies.
  3. Maintain calendar for the Director of Disability Support Services.
  4. Coordinate with instructional staff on testing, accommodations and other issues of concern for students registered with disability support services.
  5. Serve as a proctor for students registered with disability support services.
  6. Oversee disability support services when the Director is off-campus.
  7. Operate the Banner, Argos, and Filebound systems.
  8. Coordinate note-taking application software for students who use this as an accommodation.
  9. Organize and perform office responsibilities including typing, filing, telephone coverage, maintaining confidential information, scheduling, invoice processing, word processing, and submit purchase orders.
  10. Assume all other reasonable professional duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Essential Functions

  1. Must support and understand the mission of the community college.
  2. Must be able to handle discreet and sensitive issues maintaining confidentiality.
  3. Must have strong skills in customer service and possess excellent verbal and written skills.
  4. Must be able to operate office equipment proficiently.
  5. Must be able to establish and maintain effective relationships with co-workers and other individuals.
  6. Must be able to interpret rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
  7. Must be able to work with Microsoft Office products.
  8. Must be able to utilize adaptive and assistive technologies.

Personal Interaction

Frequent contact is made with College personnel, faculty, student and the general public in the routine performance of duties and in providing routine departmental services and duties.

Supervision Excercised

Functional supervision is exercised over designated College work study students.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED with three to five years of responsible office experience or equivalent education and experience required; associate's degree is preferred. Strong communication, organizational, and computer skills (MS Word and Excel) required.

Revised: 3/24/2024

Tort Liability Statement:

Coordinates the College Risk Management Program in a capacity appropriate to this position. This includes, but is not limited to, monitoring conditions, events and circumstances present through daily College operations, and communicating observations to the appropriate supervisor or taking necessary actions to correct, prevent or limit safety problems. May serve as a member of a committee that supports the health, safety and/or legal rights of visitors, students and staff. Such committees may include the AA/EEO, Sexual Harassment, and Safety/Loss Control committees. (Risk Management Categories I, III, IV. See Tort file.)

This description is intended to indicate the kinds and levels of work difficulty that will be required of the position that will be given the title and shall not be construed as declaring what specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of the supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

 

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