Visual Interpreter for Blind/ Low Vision Employee

As a Visual Interpreter you will be the essential support system for a blind/ low-vision leader. You will, in essence, be an extension of a blind/ low-vision leader in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion department at a global technology firm. In this role, you will ensure equal access to information and resources within a professional environment. Your role will involve facilitating communication, organizing and creating accessible content, and providing technical assistance to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of this leader.

Job Responsibilities

• Document Review and Interpretation: Read, describe, and interpret emails, memos, reports, or any other written documents, focusing on critical details such as headers, graphs, or specific formatting.
• Assistance with Digital Platforms: Navigate online systems, assist with logging into accounts, accessing files, and managing digital workflows, ensuring descriptions of visuals like icons, layout changes, and notifications.
• Calendar and Scheduling Support: Describe calendar layouts, assist with scheduling and rescheduling meetings, and provide information on participant details, meeting links, and agendas.
• Advocate for and ensure access to relevant documents before meetings: e.g. ask other meeting attendees for collateral to ensure accessibility before we must show up to the meeting.
• Real-Time Meeting Assistance: In meetings, describe visual cues such as presentation slides, participant gestures, and room layouts, along with managing handouts or printed materials.
• Presentation Preparation and Delivery: Assist in creating, reviewing, and presenting visual materials, ensuring slides, charts, and visual aids are appropriately described for your boss’s understanding.
• Form and Document Completion: Guide her through completing forms by reading fields and formatting information accurately, ensuring documents maintain proper formatting and alignment.
• Assistance with Communication Platforms: Help navigate platforms like email, video conferencing, and messaging apps, describing any visual indicators, like icons or alerts, for effective communication.
• Travel and Event Assistance: If work involves travel, serve as travel companion to ease navigation in unfamiliar spaces, keeping track of scheduled speaking engagements and 1-1 meetings or small group meetings, providing visual information during networking interactions such as room layout, findings food/beverages available, reading visual signage etc.,
• Guidance on Professional Attire: Offer descriptions of clothing choices to ensure her appearance is suitable for the day’s agenda, describing colors, patterns, and overall presentation.
• Client and Staff Introductions: In an as-needed basis, facilitate finding specific people in events, and create ease for networking visually, this may include describing general appearance, gestures/non-verbal cues, information about relevant visual information such as names on name badges and any other identity information that is visually available.
• Email and Message Prioritization: Help prioritize emails and messages by identifying urgent or high-priority correspondence, summarizing content, and organizing responses as directed.
• Maintenance of Confidentiality: Handle all information with strict confidentiality, ensuring that sensitive or private details in documents or discussions are conveyed only as appropriate.
• Task Management Assistance: Support with task tracking by reading and updating tasks spreadsheets, identifying deadlines, and organizing tasks in a visually accessible way for ease of reference.
• Supporting Cross-Departmental Communication: Facilitate communication between departments by reading printed handouts, newsletters, or memos, keeping her updated on company-wide announcements.
• Proofreading and Layout Verification: Ensure documents and presentations are visually professional by checking formatting, alignment, and readability, noting any inconsistencies for correction.
• Discretion in Public Settings: In public or shared spaces, assist with visual interpretation discreetly, maintaining a professional demeanor to ensure privacy and comfort in various settings.
• Social Media/Speaker Profile Management: assists with all external facing profile creation/maintenance (Speaker profiles for engagements) taking pictures for events and assisting with Linked-in work related posts

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to effectively convey information and collaborate.
• Professional demeanor and behavior that reflects positively on the blind/ low-vision employee you are supporting.
• Strong attention to detail to accurately capture and convey meeting discussions and content.
• Proficiency in Mac and Windows desktop applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency or experience tracking expenses in Concur.
• Ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
• Experience in creating content that adheres to accessibility standards, ensuring inclusivity.
• Previous experience in a similar role, corporate, communication, or government settings is a plus.
• Previous experience working with the disability community is desired, but not required.
• Experience working with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) protocols is a strong desire, but not required.
• Must possess a valid passport and be willing to travel internationally as needed.
• Must be located in the US Eastern time zone.

Work Environment

• Full time role.
• This is a remote role.
• Flexible schedule to accommodate team schedules.
• No relocation.
• International Travel required 1-3 times per year
• MUST BE LOCATED IN THE US EASTERN TIME ZONE
• $52,000 - 58,500 annual salary.

Emerge seeks, in all its operations, to employ individuals for available positions based on their qualifications, working knowledge, and competency. Emerge has a continuing commitment to ensure that fair and equal employment opportunities are extended to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, alienage, citizenship or immigration status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military/veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, or based on their relationship or association with members of a protected class or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.. Emerge is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.

By completing an application with us, you seek to join a team of hardworking professionals dedicated to consistently deliver outstanding service to our customers and contribute to the financial success of the organization, its clients and its employees. Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all qualified persons. Those applicants requiring accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should contact our Emerge Recruitment Office.

As a Visual Interpreter you will be the essential support system for a blind/ low-vision leader. You will, in essence, be an extension of a blind/ low-vision leader in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion department at a global technology firm. In this role, you will ensure equal access to information and resources within a professional environment. Your role will involve facilitating communication, organizing and creating accessible content, and providing technical assistance to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of this leader.

Job Responsibilities

• Document Review and Interpretation: Read, describe, and interpret emails, memos, reports, or any other written documents, focusing on critical details such as headers, graphs, or specific formatting.
• Assistance with Digital Platforms: Navigate online systems, assist with logging into accounts, accessing files, and managing digital workflows, ensuring descriptions of visuals like icons, layout changes, and notifications.
• Calendar and Scheduling Support: Describe calendar layouts, assist with scheduling and rescheduling meetings, and provide information on participant details, meeting links, and agendas.
• Advocate for and ensure access to relevant documents before meetings: e.g. ask other meeting attendees for collateral to ensure accessibility before we must show up to the meeting.
• Real-Time Meeting Assistance: In meetings, describe visual cues such as presentation slides, participant gestures, and room layouts, along with managing handouts or printed materials.
• Presentation Preparation and Delivery: Assist in creating, reviewing, and presenting visual materials, ensuring slides, charts, and visual aids are appropriately described for your boss’s understanding.
• Form and Document Completion: Guide her through completing forms by reading fields and formatting information accurately, ensuring documents maintain proper formatting and alignment.
• Assistance with Communication Platforms: Help navigate platforms like email, video conferencing, and messaging apps, describing any visual indicators, like icons or alerts, for effective communication.
• Travel and Event Assistance: If work involves travel, serve as travel companion to ease navigation in unfamiliar spaces, keeping track of scheduled speaking engagements and 1-1 meetings or small group meetings, providing visual information during networking interactions such as room layout, findings food/beverages available, reading visual signage etc.,
• Guidance on Professional Attire: Offer descriptions of clothing choices to ensure her appearance is suitable for the day’s agenda, describing colors, patterns, and overall presentation.
• Client and Staff Introductions: In an as-needed basis, facilitate finding specific people in events, and create ease for networking visually, this may include describing general appearance, gestures/non-verbal cues, information about relevant visual information such as names on name badges and any other identity information that is visually available.
• Email and Message Prioritization: Help prioritize emails and messages by identifying urgent or high-priority correspondence, summarizing content, and organizing responses as directed.
• Maintenance of Confidentiality: Handle all information with strict confidentiality, ensuring that sensitive or private details in documents or discussions are conveyed only as appropriate.
• Task Management Assistance: Support with task tracking by reading and updating tasks spreadsheets, identifying deadlines, and organizing tasks in a visually accessible way for ease of reference.
• Supporting Cross-Departmental Communication: Facilitate communication between departments by reading printed handouts, newsletters, or memos, keeping her updated on company-wide announcements.
• Proofreading and Layout Verification: Ensure documents and presentations are visually professional by checking formatting, alignment, and readability, noting any inconsistencies for correction.
• Discretion in Public Settings: In public or shared spaces, assist with visual interpretation discreetly, maintaining a professional demeanor to ensure privacy and comfort in various settings.
• Social Media/Speaker Profile Management: assists with all external facing profile creation/maintenance (Speaker profiles for engagements) taking pictures for events and assisting with Linked-in work related posts

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to effectively convey information and collaborate.
• Professional demeanor and behavior that reflects positively on the blind/ low-vision employee you are supporting.
• Strong attention to detail to accurately capture and convey meeting discussions and content.
• Proficiency in Mac and Windows desktop applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency or experience tracking expenses in Concur.
• Ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
• Experience in creating content that adheres to accessibility standards, ensuring inclusivity.
• Previous experience in a similar role, corporate, communication, or government settings is a plus.
• Previous experience working with the disability community is desired, but not required.
• Experience working with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) protocols is a strong desire, but not required.
• Must possess a valid passport and be willing to travel internationally as needed.
• Must be located in the US Eastern time zone.

Work Environment

• Full time role.
• This is a remote role.
• Flexible schedule to accommodate team schedules.
• No relocation.
• International Travel required 1-3 times per year
• MUST BE LOCATED IN THE US EASTERN TIME ZONE
• $52,000 - 58,500 annual salary.

Emerge seeks, in all its operations, to employ individuals for available positions based on their qualifications, working knowledge, and competency. Emerge has a continuing commitment to ensure that fair and equal employment opportunities are extended to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, alienage, citizenship or immigration status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military/veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, or based on their relationship or association with members of a protected class or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.. Emerge is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.

By completing an application with us, you seek to join a team of hardworking professionals dedicated to consistently deliver outstanding service to our customers and contribute to the financial success of the organization, its clients and its employees. Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all qualified persons. Those applicants requiring accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should contact our Emerge Recruitment Office.