Responsibilities

• Manage and assist in communications efforts for various sports determined by the Associate Athletic Director, Communications.
• Write game previews and game 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 share ideas in collaboration with creative team for social media graphics and video content across various platforms.
• Create and maintain working relationships with local and national media outlets, proactively promoting coaches and student-athletes and facilitating requests from media.
• Maintain various statistical and historical research projects as assigned, including team record books.
• Properly archive game action photos and work with marketing team and conference office for photo requests and other materials as needed.
• Facilitate various requests from coaching staffs, the West Coast Conference and NCAA.

Requirements

• Understanding and appreciation of the mission, vision, and values of the University of San Francisco.
• Bachelor’s degree required, with emphasis on journalism, public relations, communications or related field.
• Minimum of 1 year of public relations, communications or sports information experience in an NCAA athletics department and/or professional sports organization.
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite is preferred (InDesign and Photoshop).
• Basic knowledge of Stat Crew, NCAA Live Stats (Genius), Stat Input (Stat Broadcast).
• Experience in feature writing, game coverage, copy editing and proofreading.
• Strong writing background from feature stories to game notes, and able to originate ideas for graphics and video for social media platforms.
• 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
• The position requires some travel and working evenings, weekends and select holidays in addition to daily office hours. Also requires other related duties as assigned by your supervisor and/or other department leadership.