Accessibility & Communications Specialist, American Association on Health and Disability, Remote Working
Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2022The American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) www.aahd.us is a cross-disability national non-profit 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to ensuring health equity and inclusion for persons with disabilities through policy, research, education, and dissemination. AAHD activities are largely funded by federal agencies and foundations. The official journal of AAHD is the Disability and Health Journal (www.disabilityandhealthjnl.com).
A major initiative of AAHD is the Disability Community Engagement Partner Project (DCEPP), funded by the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is inviting one million people across the U.S. to help build one of the most diverse health databases in history. Researchers will use the data to learn how biology, lifestyle, and environment affect health. This may one day help them find ways to treat and prevent disease. The major goals of DCEPP are to increase awareness and recruit persons with a range of disabilities into the All of Us program and facilitate interest by disability and health researchers in the program.
AAHD is recruiting an Accessibility & Communication Specialist to assist in the implementation of four communication and engagement campaigns targeting: 1) Persons with disabilities that are affiliated with the DCEPP’s Disability Consortium, a partnership with over 20 national and local disability organizations; 2) Persons with disabilities that may be affiliated with other organizations funded by the AoU Program; 3) the general population of persons with disabilities that are not affiliated with disability organizations; and 4) Disability and Health Researchers.
Under the guidance of the Communications Manager and the DCEPP Communications Committee, the Accessibility & Communications Specialist will play a supporting role in communication and engagement planning and implementation and a primary role in ensuring DCEPP communications are accessible to persons with a range of disabilities.
