Assistant Athletic Director for Communications and External Relations

Description

Centre College is a premier national liberal arts college that serves approximately 1,400 students and provides a supportive community and a flexible, personal academic path to a meaningful life and career. Founded in 1819, Centre accomplishes its goals in an atmosphere of caring and respectful relationships among faculty, students, and staff. The College has an endowment in excess of $420 million and an operating budget of more than $65 million.

Centre welcomes and supports diversity. The College strives to create an environment where differences are celebrated, where individuals can exchange ideas and share in the richness of mutual experiences. Please view our Statement of Community.

Located in Danville, KY, the historic, picturesque 150-acre campus is 30 miles from Lexington, in the famed Bluegrass Region of Central Kentucky.

The Assistant AD for Communications and External Relations serves as a key member of the Centre College Athletics Administration, reporting to the Deputy Director of Athletics.  This position oversees and directs the athletic communications efforts for 25 intercollegiate sports, managing a team that includes one full-time Assistant Director of Athletics Communications, one part-time Assistant Director, students, gameday staff, and three professional staff with secondary duties in the area of athletics communications. 

This position is responsible for the department website, the creation and distribution of social media content, live stream coordination, written coverage, statistical coverage, and coordinates a number of game day functions consistent with the athletics communications’ operation.  The position also serves as the chief archivist and historian for the department.   

As the leader of the external relations team, this position plays an important role in the overall strategic direction of the external relations department, including the social media, branding, marketing, promotions, and development efforts. 

The Assistant AD for Communications and External Relations is a highly visible position that carries significant influence, and thus requires strong character and work ethic. 

 

Essential Job Functions:

• Oversee all athletics communications department employees, two Assistant Director of Athletics Communications, students, gameday staff, and three professional staff with secondary duties in the area of athletics communications;
• Responsible for the design, daily maintenance, and content on CentreColonels.com website as well as all official social media platforms;
• Serve as primary public relations point person for the athletic department, working independently and with considerable judgment in the creation and dissemination of information internal and external of the campus community, including the media;
• Assist with the planning and execution of special events;
• Tasked with creating various forms of written material, including game/event information, game/event programs, features stories, promotional materials, brochures, student-athlete awards, and other items as needed;
• Enhance relationships with local, regional, and national media outlets, implementing a proactive plan to intentionally engage media outlets;
• Provide strategic vision, in the area of communication, for the athletic department;
• Create fresh, new content with feature stories on CentreColonels.com, both in written form as well as video stories;
• Ensure appropriate event coverage for each sport;
• Compile, update, and maintains all statistics, record books, and histories -- meeting all requirements of the SAA and NCAA;
• Develop and implement high-quality, expansive video streaming for all sports (to include but not limited to, live broadcasting talent, multi-camera broadcasts, pre-production elements, etc.);
• Serve as host site media coordinator for all home postseason events such as SAA and NCAA Tournaments;
• Staff and supervise workers for home events, including statistics crews, all webcasting personnel, public address announcers, and all other scorers’ table and press box personnel or support staff as necessary;
• Coordinate photography for Centre Athletics;
• Responsible for the oversight of the awards program, including nominations for campus, conference, regional, and national honors, executing departmental awards, and providing leadership for the Centre Athletics Awards Show;
• Establish an effective working relationship with the Centre