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Assistant Director of Athletic Communications
Alfred UniversityAlfred, NY, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Oct 2024
💰 $51,113/yr
About the role
The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications will report to the Director of Athletic Communications. This is a full-time, 10-month, benefits eligible position. This position plays a key role in the messaging, branding, and celebration of Alfred University Athletics, its student-athletes, coaches, and athletic department, through various digital platforms and game day operations. The department currently sponsors 27 sports with approximately 600 student-athletes and continued growth ahead.
The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications will be responsible for handling day-to-day media relations, event coverage, and game day statistics, preparing news releases, writing articles related to assigned sports, designing and producing digital game day programs, creating video content and graphics for the athletic website (i.e., www.gosaxons.com) and social media channels {e.g., lnstagram, Facebook, X), designing recruiting materials and recruiting-related digital graphics, nominating individual student-athletes for awards and post-season honors, developing and implementing live video production and directing live streamed events, creating audio and visual content for videoboards, ensuring the correct usage of Alfred University Athletic brands, marks, and logos, and assisting in the maintenance of the Athletics Department website.
The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications will supervise and evaluate athletic communications graduate assistants, student workers, and game-day workers.
Salary: $51,113.00 Annually; Full-Time 10-month position
Essential Functions:
The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications will be responsible for handling day-to-day media relations, event coverage, and game day statistics, preparing news releases, writing articles related to assigned sports, designing and producing digital game day programs, creating video content and graphics for the athletic website (i.e., www.gosaxons.com) and social media channels {e.g., lnstagram, Facebook, X), designing recruiting materials and recruiting-related digital graphics, nominating individual student-athletes for awards and post-season honors, developing and implementing live video production and directing live streamed events, creating audio and visual content for videoboards, ensuring the correct usage of Alfred University Athletic brands, marks, and logos, and assisting in the maintenance of the Athletics Department website.
The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications will supervise and evaluate athletic communications graduate assistants, student workers, and game-day workers.
Salary: $51,113.00 Annually; Full-Time 10-month position
Essential Functions:
- Supervise and evaluate graduate assistants and student workers
- Maintain and create content, including press releases, graphics and video content, for athletics website, social
- media channels, and videoboards
- Design recruiting materials and recruiting-related digital graphics
- Maintain statistical software for NCAA-mandated statistics and report all contests to the NCAA and other affiliated organizations
- Manage day-to-day media relations for assigned sports
- Oversee game day statistics, game day stats crew, public address announcer, scoreboard operations, digital game day programs, post-game interviews, press releases, and submission of statistics
- Direct production of live stream athletic events for assigned sports
- Assist coaches in video content and graphics for sport-specific social media channels
- Nominate student-athletes for awards and post-season honors
- Assist in oversight of proper use of Alfred University Athletic brands, marks, and logos
- Create and combine content for athletics enewsletters
- Support department-wide events and initiatives {e.g., Hall of Fame, The Alfy's, Saxon Golf Classic)
- Serve on department and campus committees
- Support and assist in creating intersections for faculty, staff and students that will assist in transforming student's lives
- Support and assist in creating an evolving culture of mentoring and rich engagement opportunities for faculty, staff, and students
- Maintain a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and a high degree of cultural competence and respect for a wide range of identities and experiences, therefore welcoming
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