Job Openings

VisAbility

01/29/2026

Job Summary:

Job Title: Orientation and Mobility Specialist
Department: Rehabilitation Department
Supervisor: Director of Rehabilitation
Job Status: Nonexempt

Salary: Exact compensation will be determined by the candidate's experience. 

Job Summary:

The Orientation and Mobility Specialist at VisAbility has a crucial role in providing personalized care and teaching for the agency's clients who are blind or visually impaired. The orientation and mobility specialist will enhance the clients lives by boosting their independence, travel skills, and safety within their homes, workplaces, and communities.

Responsibilities:

• Provides educational instruction to clients on equipment that will improve their navigation abilities and mobility skills.
• Assess client's needs, goals and desired outcomes and create a structured lesson plan that enables them to achieve those outcomes.
• When necessary, able to work with clients in their homes, as well as community, and most frequently at the agency's facility.
• Ability to commute to client’s homes/community in their own vehicle.
• Supervise and mentor interns and be able to effectively provide sighted guide training to staff and volunteers.
• Organize client progress in agency's required databases and software.
• Maintain required certifications.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in orientation and mobility.
• Preferred experience working with individuals with vision loss or other disabilities.
• ACVREP Certification.
• Valid driver’s license and insurance.

Decision-Making Authority and Supervisory Responsibility:

• Reports directly to the Director of Rehabilitation.
• Holds decision-making authority regarding clients’ orientation and mobility training programs.
• Supervises and oversees orientation and mobility interns from local university training programs.

Requirements:

• A reliable form of transportation or a valid Driver’s License.

Clearances:

1. Act 151 (Child Abuse History Clearance)

2. Act 34 (Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History Clearance)

3. Act 114 (Federal Criminal History Record Clearance)

Working Environment/Physical Demands:

Working Environment:

• General office environment: air-conditioned office, with moderate noise levels.
• Flexible work schedule.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to perform tasks that involve physical activity, such as demonstrating adaptive techniques and navigating various environments.
• Responsibility to lift and /or carrying equipment and materials up to 25 Pounds without assistance,
• Ability to travel to different locations as required for client training sessions.
• Ability to anticipate and mitigate hazards to ensure client safety.
• Capability to assist clients to their feet if they have fallen.
• Ability to speak professionally on the phone with various stakeholders
• Ability to utilize a visually based database.

Reasoning Abilities & Language Skills:

• Ability to evaluate information and the implications of a course of action or solution
• Ability to interpret and apply common sense understanding to carry out a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to follow and execute directives from leadership
• Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Evaluate trends in data or information.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret both internal and external documents.

E_mail: jdiehl@visability.org

Phone: 4123684073

Cert: COMS