Associate Director, Athletics Communications & Social Media

 

Job Title: Associate Director, Athletics Communications & Social Media

Department: Sports Information

Campus Location: Main Campus

FLSA Status: Exempt/ Salaried

Position Type/ Work Schedule

• 2080 Hours per year
• 12 Months per year
• 40 Hours per week (Estimated)

About Us

Colorado College (“CC”) is a private, four-year, highly selective liberal arts college of 2,100 undergraduate students and a small Master of Arts in teaching program. It is located on a 99-acre campus adjacent to downtown, ‘Olympic City’, Colorado Springs. The campus sits on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains at the foot of Pikes Peak. The college operates an innovative curricular approach, known as the Block Plan, which entails students taking one course at a time for three and a half weeks, with the academic year divided into eight “blocks.” The Colorado College Department of Athletics sponsors 17 varsity programs. Fifteen programs compete at the NCAA Division III level and two at the Division I level. Division III programs are members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), with the exception of Men’s Lacrosse (independent) and Women’s Lacrosse (WIAC affiliate). Division I Men’s Hockey is a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) and Division I Women’s Soccer competes as an affiliate member of the Mountain West Conference (MWC).

Job Summary

Provides external and internal communication to support and publicize the Colorado College athletics programs and their student-athletes; represents the college in all dealings with the media at the national, regional, and local levels that cover CC Athletics; directs and coordinates social media strategy and implementation for the department; maintains the press table and statistical crews during events, writes stories and updates results on deadline at the conclusion and posts to website and social media platforms; supervise interns and student workers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary athletics communications contact for several assigned sports; assist with athletics communications needs for other sports; maintain CCTigers.com website daily, including editorial content and design elements; create game stories and update statistics from all contests immediately following the conclusion of each event; pursue promotional opportunities for the college through awards, honors, and involvement on campus and in the community; write biographies for student athletes for assigned sports, including career, single-season, and single-game statistics and images.
• Coordinate and lead the strategic use of social media to promote Colorado College Athletics; direct the activities of the Department's Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites.
• Assist with a comprehensive and timely presence on the internet, including website, social media, graphic design, video editing and production; responsible for uploading and archiving individual, team and department digital content to secure storage for internal and external use.
• Collaborate with the Director of Marketing to maintain the branding and visual standards pertaining to the creation of graphics, photography, and video projects for content creation/branding on digital and social media platforms; collaborate with the college’s Office of Communications and Marketing regarding campus events/news when necessary.
• Prepare for and staff assigned Division III athletic events, as well as some Division I events including design, layout and production of digital game programs; set up, activate and monitor statistical programs that provide live stats on the Web; coordinate live video for streaming of home events, and troubleshoot audio and visual problems as they occur; supervise interns/students who work with social media, stat crews, live stream announcers, and public address announcers.
• Coordinate video and photography (action, individual portrait, and team pictures) for all varsity sports; hire and manage a freelance photographer, coordinating shoots and selecting which photos will be used or made available for use by the media; edit and catalog photos for all varsity sports for multiple uses and respond to requests from media outlets, conferences, the NCAA, and coaches’ associations; monitors image requirements for print and digital photographs; edit and post action images from selected events and special events such as Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, etc.; shoots digital photos at games, special events, and other athletic department functions if necessary.
• Gather information, research, write, edit, and distribute news and provide stories, sports briefs, notes,