What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Consulting, Disability & Access position at Whalar?
Job Title: Director of Consulting, Disability & Access
Work Location: USA (Remote)
Start Date: ASAP
Are you an independent strategic thinker? A problem-solver? Are you curious about what’s happening in culture? Do you want to work with people who are passionate about what they do? Welcome to Whalar. We are a creator commerce company that works with Creators & Influencers, global brands, and social platforms to deliver award-winning creative and content, manage talent, and build proprietary technology to empower the creator economy. We are passionate, curious, and independently minded.
Over the past few years, we have built a diverse, successful, and fast-growing global business. We are fortunate to work with some of the world’s best-known brands. Our reputation and commitment to excellence have enabled us to become a preferred partner of TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Twitter, and Snap. We have a dedicated team of engineers building innovative technology and we have the unique opportunity to support the growing careers of many of the rising stars and most talented creators in the business.
We believe this is a rare chance to join a truly special team and to help us shape the future of a highly respected, growth-oriented business that is committed to doing well by doing good.
The Role:
Reporting to the Founder & President, C Talent @ Whalar, the Director of Consulting, Disability & Access will have the opportunity to make systemic, lasting, and groundbreaking changes. C Talent's Disability & Access consulting builds resilient infrastructure promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fosters innovation by helping companies become accessible beyond compliance.
An example of a project that you would manage: Our client has requested help educating their design team on accessible content. In this role, you would create a curriculum around their needs and any additional materials they have purchased (such as toolkits), select the relevant contractors to conduct the training, and identify ways in which we could further work with the client to help with access & disability representation. For example, if the client does not have high-quality stock imagery, you would propose that C Talent creates a disability-centric stock library for them).
Some of our current and previous clients include; Virgin Media, Twitter, International Paralympic Committee, NBC, The LEGO Group, and GIPHY.
Responsibilities:
- Building new & sustained relationships with potential clients (such as fortune 500 companies)
- Building a talent pool of disability & access consultants with specific knowledge & lived experience
- Lead, conduct training and create customized plans for consulting clients on subjects including but not limited to; disability & accessibility, corporate social responsibility, disability justice, inclusive & adaptive design more.
- Work in tandem with talent managers & wider Whalar teams/departments to identify disability & accessibility consulting opportunities
- Engage and participate in speaking opportunities
Qualifications:
- Must be well versed in the Social Model of Disability and disability justice
- Extensive project management or project planning experience
- You are well versed in the ADA
- Must be active in the disabled community
- Must be a disability and accessibility advocate
- Experience within the film/TV/media/advertising industry would be nice to have but not a requirement
Whalar is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Whalar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or another legally protected status
