Responsibilities

• Help develop, implement, and manage the Athletic Department’s digital brand, ensuring all digital elements have a consistent look and feel, from visual imagery to content tone and cadence.
• Coordinate, design, implement and execute photo shoots for all sports.
• Support the marketing, ticket sales and fan engagement strategies for the football and basketball programs through concept, design, and production of traditional, digital, and video graphic materials.
• Utilize official social media outlets to engage fans by delivering entertaining and informative content.
• Manage the athletic departments’ content sharing partnerships.
• Recruit, train, and oversee a group of video/photography interns.
• Cultivate relationships with campus partners including the Harrington School of Communication and Media and College of Arts and Sciences.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of one year of professional graphic design and video production experience.
• Demonstrated experience both shooting and editing content for various platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sports promotional/hype videos and commercials.
• Demonstrated knowledge of non-linear editing (i.e., Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc.).
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
• Demonstrated design skills.
• Demonstrated experience with DSLR and cinema-style cameras.
• Demonstrated understanding of digital and social media marketing tools and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with athletic department staff (i.e., administrators, coaches, student-athletes; etc.).

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in video production, graphic design, communications, marketing, sports management or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in graphic design for collegiate athletics and/or professional team.
• Demonstrated experience managing and training student workers.