Coordinator, Disability, Access, and Inclusion (2 Positions)

🇺🇸 Kingston, Rhode Island 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $66K - $68K 💻 Academic Advising 🗓️ November 5th, 2026

FERPA Brightspace Accessibility

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Rhode Island is hiring a Coordinator, Disability, Access, and Inclusion (2 Positions). The role coordinates and delivers the university's accessibility services for students with disabilities, including the accommodations that give them equal access to academic and co-curricular programs. The coordinators also advise students, faculty, and campus departments on disability-related options and on making courses and programs accessible.

Highlights

Establish and supervise delivery and documentation of essential services for students with disabilities, including reasonable accommodations in URI academic and co-curricular programs and services.
Assess, verify, and facilitate student requests for services through remote and in-person meetings, and provide learning support to students with mental health disabilities, learning disabilities, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and other documented conditions.
Advise individual students and student groups on disability, diversity, civil rights, services, and self-advocacy, and hire, train, and supervise student employees as needed.
Advise the Assistant Dean/Director and university departments on accessibility options in courses, programs, and services, and refer faculty and staff to disability-related options.
Work with IT Teaching and Learning Services to ensure the online accessibility of Brightspace and other course systems, developing training modules and assessment strategies for faculty.
Oversee the annual accessibility response for URI Commencement by building an accommodation registration system for visitors, coordinating staffing, and distributing adaptive equipment.
Coordinate with Housing and Residential Life, Transportation & Parking Services, and Enrollment Services on housing accommodations, disability transportation and parking, and accessible classrooms.
Requires a master's degree in psychology, counseling/social work, college student personnel, communicative disorders, adult education, or another human science field, plus at least three years of experience working with students with disabilities and two years of administrative or instructional experience with college students.
Requires working knowledge of federal disability regulations 504 and 508, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, reasonable accommodations, and FERPA; knowledge of assistive technologies and experience with autism spectrum disorder are preferred.
Full-time, permanent positions (two openings) at the Kingston campus with a salary hiring range of $66,000 to $68,000.