Responsibilities

• Manage and assist in communications efforts for various teams, including women’s basketball, and other sports determined by the Associate Athletic Director, Communications.
• Write game previews and recaps, update student-athlete and coach bios and write general news releases on department’s official website – USFDons.com.
• Maintain statistics, records and photo archives for assigned sports.
• Responsible for live and postgame statistics for all assigned sports. Must also be available to fill in as official statistician at home events as necessary.
• Work closely with head coaches in researching proper promotions of teams and student-athletes for department website usfdons.com and social media platforms.
• Write feature stories and assist in production of social media graphics and video content across various platforms.
• Maintain various statistical and historical research projects as assigned, including team record books.
• Facilitate various requests from coaching staffs, the West Coast Conference and NCAA.
• Collaborate with the Associate Athletic Director, Communications and colleagues in the university’s Office of Marketing Communications to share information, develop stories and amplify the achievements of USF student-athletes and our Division I athletics program.
• Create and maintain working relationships with local and national media outlets, proactively promoting coaches and student-athletes, and facilitating requests from media.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Masters preferred, with emphasis on journalism, public relations, communications or related field a plus
• 4 years of increasingly responsible experience in administration support work or related education including at least two years in an administrative support role
• Proficiency with Stat Crew, NCAA Live Stats (Genius), Stat Input (Stat Broadcast)
• Experience working with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Photoshop)
• Ideal candidate is a versatile, creative storyteller with the ability to tell narratives through print, graphics and video creative content across all platforms
• Excellent verbal, written, organizational and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in feature writing, game coverage, copy editing and proofreading
• Well-versed in social media strategies and trends including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
• Knowledge of NCAA rules and regulations across all USF sponsored sports

Preferred

• Masters preferred, with emphasis on journalism, public relations, communications or related field a plus
• Preferred, experience in a sports information/communications athletic department

Benefits

• Full University benefits.