Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

SUMMARY

Communication & Collaboration 

• Works closely with the athletics department staff, student-athletes, gameday staff, and PBA’s sports broadcasting students to ensure seamless communication across all stakeholders. 
• Maintains and creates content for the official athletics website as well as for social media and other platforms.  
• Assists with designing and implementing a social media plan to promote the athletic department. 
• Creates compelling content using Adobe Creative Suite to promote athletic department events and achievements. 
• Maintains meticulous records and historical archives of PBA’s digital assets. 
• Manages and organizes archives of photo, video, and graphic content. 
• Submits nominations for Conference, Regional, and National Awards. 
• Schedules and executes media days ensuring a smooth and seamless process for internal and external stakeholders. 
• Maintains regular contact with athletics staff, PBA sports broadcasting students, and gameday workers. 
• Collaborates with key external stakeholders such as external athletic conferences and associations as well as coaches and administrators from other institutions.

Game Day Tasks 

• Fulfills gameday roles such as statistics keeping, writing press releases, public address announcing, creating content, photography and videography. 
• Provides a safe and welcoming environment for student-athletes, coaches, staff and all visitors. 
• Writes game recap articles for assigned programs. 
• Assists with online video streams of home events through partnership with Sports Broadcasting majors. 
• Helps train, mentor, and supervise gameday staff and student workers. 

Compliance 

• Adheres to all budgetary guidelines, as well as University, Sunshine State Conference (SSC) and NCAA rules and regulations.
• Follows all facilities and operations budgetary guidelines, as well as University, Sunshine State Conference (SSC) and NCAA rules and regulations.
• Attends mandatory compliance and departmental meetings as scheduled. 

Administrative 

• Manages expenses ensuring they are kept within the program budget.  
• Oversees area performance management, functional training, talent development, and interviewing prospective student worker candidates. 
• Supports the Assistant Athletic Director for Communications in day-to-day functions including oversight of Graduate Assistants. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Customer Service Orientation – Keeps internal and/or external key stakeholder(s), students, parents, faculty, staff and community partners in mind at all times.
• Professionalism – Displays a high level of professionalism, e.g. timeliness, reliability, communication, and work ethic.
• Christ-first Faith – Provides spiritual support to community members, including students, on their Christian faith journey.
• Analytical Thinking & Decision Making – Identifies and understands trends and/or issues, connects data points through analysis and logical conclusions/actionable strategies.
• Attention to Detail – Ability to efficiently and accurately focus on a specific task or number of tasks. Reviews details with a critical eye.
• Conflict Management – Functions professionally and wisely during difficult conversations, while under stress, and while managing challenging situations.
• Continuous Improvement – Implement or brainstorm ways to optimize a process.
• Creativity – Ability to think creatively and design creative solutions to problems.
• Develops Others – Ability to promote continuous improvement within teams and/or individuals.
• Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated messaging across a wide variety of audiences.
• Establishes Trust – Gains the confidence of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming, and vulnerable.
• Leadership/Influence – Ability to motivate, coach and develop others, as well as influence a group of people to achieve common goals, and implement university strategies. Strong supervisory skills.
• Problem-solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
• Project and Time Management – Effective planning and priority setting. Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Results Orientation & Accountability – Takes accountability and identifies, executes and drives actions to consistently achieve desired results.
• Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others both departmentally and cross-functionally.
• Technology – Strong aptitude to learn new technologies as department processes evolve.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work non-routine hours during certain times of the year.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to traverse campus and stairs.
• Ability to lift/move objects up to 25 pounds.