Responsibilities

• Handle daily communication and media-services responsibilities for assigned Olympic sports programs, working directly with coaches and student-athletes to produce positive coverage in print, news, and digital media.
• Use creative, innovative approach to generate positive promotion of sport programs.
• Work with coaching staffs and department promotions team to create publicity plans to reach various audiences through social media and website.
• Write and edit daily, weekly and annual releases, feature stories and publications.
• Develop ideas, write and post material to Arizona’s official website, arizonawildcats.com.
• Utilize advanced photo editing skills for graphical use on website and social media.
• Coordinate with video department to schedule and produce multimedia materials.
• Maintain archival and records systems.
• Staff events in media-services capacity, while coordinating duties of support staff.
• Respond to written and phone queries from media and others by providing materials, statistics, photos, and information pertaining to sport.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• This position requires the ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays and travel as needed.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred

• Previous experience with SIDEARM Sports content management, and/or HTML.
• Previous experience with Photoshop, InDesign and other desktop publishing programs.
• Knowledge of NCAA rules and compliance issues pertaining to publicity and promotional efforts.
• Experience with NCAA Live Stats and its various programs.

Benefits

• Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!
• The University of Arizona has been recognized for our innovative work-life programs.