Responsibilities

• Writes and distributes feature stories on athletics, student-athletes, and coaches. Obtains pre-contest information and compiles or summarizes post-contest results and occurrences.
• Distributes marketing and communication materials to internal and external stakeholders through various channels. Schedules and publishes multimedia content across key social media platforms.
• Prepares sport media guides and website information that includes schedules, athlete and coach profiles and biographies, performance statistics, and history.
• Coordinates and trains staff essential to game competition; such as, but not limited to; announcer, scorers, clock operators, etc. at athletic events.
• Maintain compliance by ensuring live, timely and accurate submission of official schedules, game results, statistical reports, and team records to conference and athletic governing bodies using online systems and protocols.
• Attends home and designated away athletic events and performs a variety of functions, such as, live stats, statistics, announcing, score keeping, clock operation to provide accuracy and a neutral working environment.
• Maintains archives of athletic performance statistics, athlete biographies and other information supporting publications.
• Maintains currency of knowledge and skills related to the duties and responsibilities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• The position requires a bachelor's degree in Journalism, Sports Information or Sports Administration, Communications, Public Relations, English or a related communications field and 1 year of experience in sports journalism, sports information, media relations, public relations or communications with a specialization in sports, website management and updating social media, or external communications.

Preferred

• Collegiate Sports Information experience
• Ability to provide live stats for Athletic programs at Cerritos College
• Experience with social media and graphic design
• Experience with live streaming athletics events
• Experience with website development and updates
• Experience with still and action photography

Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits include District contribution for medical/dental/vision benefits and employee life insurance ($50,000). (Cash in lieu option available on medical insurance.)
• Participation in the Public Employee's Retirement System that is also integrated with Social Security.