Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting and/or leading athletics communications, media relations, digital storytelling, publicity, and brand promotion for the athletics department. Partners with coaches, student-athletes, media, and campus partners to enhance visibility and engagement.
• Provides day-to-day management of athletics communications operations under the direction of senior athletics administration.
• Assists with managing post-game media coverage for assigned high visibility sports.
• Plans, develops and executes communications strategies that enhance visibility and reputation of athletics programs.
• Plans, develops, and implements short and long-range events and game day strategies working closely with the external marketing and development staff.
• Directs updates to local, state, and national media inquiries to promote the image of the university, department, and/or assigned program(s).
• Develops game day and sport specific publications including but not limited to media guides, game programs, and game day notes.
• Develops and writes press releases, news/feature articles and profiles of coaches, staff, and student-athletes and other related items of interest for internal and external audiences and stakeholders.
• Ensures athletic press releases and media relations publicity aligns with established University guidelines and are maximized both internally and externally.
• Assists with the maintenance of archival information, records, photos, statistics, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or sports management or a related field from an accredited university.
• Three (3) years of professional experience in athletics communications, media relations and/or sports marketing including previous administrative and supervisory experience.

Preferred

• Experience obtained in a NCAA Division I or Division II institution.