Posted: 10/09/2025
Closing Date: 09/10/2025
Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Macquarie
Job Category: Other

OUR PURPOSE AND AMBITION

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.
NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.
We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.
Our new world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University NSW represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project was undertaken to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

THE ROLE

NextSense has an exciting opportunity for an Accessible Format Officer to join our team based on campus, in a brand new building, at Macquarie University. We have 2 roles available and we’re offering these roles on a permanent full-time basis.

Role Purpose:

• To support NextSense clients in accessing information by the provision of accessible large print or braille material, created using format-relevant best practise accessibility guidelines.
• To transcribe curriculum and assessment material for students on the NextSense School Support Service, NextSense Blind School and NextSense Blind and Low Vision Preschool.
• To aid staff delivering vision services by creating appropriate braille, large print books and resources in accessible electronic formats.
• To create learning resources to aid literacy and concept development for children who are blind or have low vision
• To embrace a culture of quality and innovation that enhances the delivery of services at NextSense through insightful design and implementation of accessibility guidelines.
• To share knowledge and expertise within the wider community both nationally and internationally, by participating in workshops and contributing to guidelines to promote best practise, showcasing the organisation as a centre of excellence.