Graduate Student Disability Specialist , Disabled Students Program

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The Disabled Students' Program (DSP) provides a wide array of legally mandated services to students with disabilities and consists of approximately 41 FTE, serves over 5,600 students, and hires over 400 service providers and student volunteers to provide educational support to this growing population.

DSP's mission is to promote an inclusive environment for students with disabilities and to equip students with appropriate accommodations and services to pursue their individual academic goals. DSP is dedicated to supporting students and collaborating with the campus community to remove barriers to educational access and embrace the University's values of equity and inclusion.

DSP is responsible for ensuring compliance with state, federal, and local regulations ensuring that disabled students are provided with equal access to participate in their academic programs.

The Graduate Student Disability Specialist position primarily focuses on determining and facilitating the provision of accommodations for a caseload of disabled students enrolled in graduate and professional programs at UC Berkeley. The Graduate Student Disability Specialist collaborates with other Graduate Student Disability Specialists and with the broader DSP Disability Specialist and Auxiliary Services teams and DSP staff and Management. In addition, the Graduate Disability Specialist works with staff, administrators, and faculty in the Graduate Division to ensure the equal access of disabled graduate and professional students to their academic programs.

The First Review Date for this job is: 12/15/2025.

Coordination of Graduate accommodations and individual case management:

• Conducts intake appointments and follow-up meetings with graduate and professional students to determine accommodation eligibility and necessary auxiliary services referrals.
• Crafts nuanced accommodations when necessary for complex settings such as labs and fieldwork sites.
• Evaluates student self-reports and disability documentation provided by physicians or other appropriate professionals to determine students' eligibility for disability services.
• Works as an interdisciplinary team member to ensure required accommodations are efficiently and effectively provided.
• Engages in ongoing consultation and coordination with relevant service providers within and outside of DSP.

Caseload management:

• Thoroughly documents individual assessments.
• Ensures timeliness of response to communication and meeting requests from students, staff, and faculty.
• Communicates deadlines, policy changes, and relevant opportunities or concerns to all members of caseload in a timely manner.
• Ensures that information in all students' case files in AIM is up to date and accurate.

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