Director of Athletic Media Relations
Southeastern Campus
Southeast Region
Administration/Management
Posted/Updated: 07/30/19
Southeast Region
Administration/Management
Posted/Updated: 07/30/19
Job Summary
Responsibilities
- The Director of Athletic Media Relations is responsible for the day to day publicity for the Athletics program.
- Duties include providing timely news releases, updating statistical data and serving as a liaison between the school and the Southern Conference, A-Sun, NCAA and the local and national media.
- Other duties include the day-to-day management of the sports information office.
- This would include the assignment of staff for all home events and select road events, updating of website and social media, and production of media guides and game programs.
- This position serves as primary contact for football and baseball.
- The Director and his/her office will be tasked with working closely with multiple constituencies to provide technical and design support for specific athletic events.
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/institution in Communications, Journalism,English or a related field is required along with one year of Sports Information or Media Relations experience.
- Candidates with a master's degree are highly desirable.
- The successful candidate must have: extensive desktop publishing experience with Photoshop, InDesign Word, Quark Express and similar publishing software
- knowledge to run stat program for team sports; general knowledge of athletics and broad Knowledge of different sports
- excellent oral and written communication skills
- working knowledge of various social media platforms
- knowledge of webcasting technology
- and understanding of college athletic environment, including but not limited to, NCAA and conference compliance regulations.
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