Volunteer Communications Director
Redeem These Ashes
USA (Remote)
In-houseInternshipIntern/new grad
22 hrs ago
Assistant Director of Communications & Digital Media
Denver, CO (Unknown)
$60K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time
Posted 1 day ago
Job Summary
Own the athletic communications for multiple DU varsity programs by leading media relations, storytelling, and honors outreach across channels and collaborating with internal partners to maximize visibility and engagement.
- Oversee home contest coverage and press materials for assigned sports.
- Drive digital storytelling, branding, and partnerships across departments.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Serve as sports information director for Gymnastics, Women's Soccer, Men's Tennis, and Women's Tennis, including writing, editing, and disseminating press releases and feature stories; designing media brochures and game programs; responding to media inquiries; planning photography sessions; and covering assigned home and postseason contests locally, regionally, and nationally
- Coordinate media relations, social media, and statistical services for all home contests for assigned sports, and serve as liaison to opposing institutions, media, coaches, conference offices, and the NCAA for the exchange of statistical data and sport-specific honors information
- Nominate student-athletes for conference, regional, and national honors and awards, and publicize award winners across department platforms
- Create and publish digital and social media content that tells the stories of student-athletes and programs for assigned sports, in collaboration with the Creative unit
- Promote revenue-generating opportunities for assigned sports in partnership with Technical Services (broadcast elements), Marketing (student-athlete selection and public address support), Sponsorship (fulfillment of agreements on game programs, website, and social media), Event Management (game day operations), Development (Division messaging), and Ticket Sales (ticket deals and promotions)
- Lead efforts, in conjunction with other units, to keep trophy cases and display cases current; coordinate the team photo wall, assigned sport media days, and the department-wide headshot day with the University of Denver photographer
- Assist the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications for Hockey with supervision of the unit's work-study students and with assigning game day student staffing for all 18 of Denver's sport programs
- Prepare for and contribute to weekly unit meetings to support execution of the department's overall communications plan
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of one to two years of experience in athletic communications, sports information, or a related communications role
Preferred
- Master's degree
- Three or more years of experience in athletic communications, sports information, or a related communications role
- Experience with StatCrew, Genius Sports, or comparable statistical software and with content management systems for athletics websites
- Experience producing social media and video content for an intercollegiate athletics program
Benefits
- Benefits: The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference.
University of Denver
Founded in 1864 — just a few years after the city of Denver itself was founded—the University of Denver is one of the country's premier private universities. The University's 125-acre campus, a few miles south of downtown Denver, is home to about 12,000 students hailing from all regions of the United States and 83 other countries. The University offers more than 100 undergraduate programs of study and more than 120 graduate and professional programs. DU is recognized as a Doctoral/Very High Research University (or “R1”) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The University of Denver may delete posts or comments that promote for-profit ventures that do not comply with DU policies. Posts that are grossly off-topic, abusive, contain profanity, pornography, are threatening, contain discriminatory language or language of bias or hate, and the like will not be tolerated. This page is moderated by DU staff to maintain safety and ensure appropriate interactions. Posts concerning safety and discrimination will be brought to the immediate attention of Campus Safety and/or Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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$60K/yr – $70K/yr
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