Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Job at CoSIDA, Kalamazoo, MI

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  • CoSIDA
  • Kalamazoo, MI

Job Description

The Assistant Director of Athletic Communications is a benefits-eligible, year-round, full-time position within the Advancement Division's College Marketing and Communication team. The assistant director reports to, and works collaboratively with, the sports information director to promote Kalamazoo College's 18 men's and women's intercollegiate varsity teams. This includes serving as official statistician at various events, creating content for print, web and social media, writing game recaps and news releases and updating the Hornet Athletics website.



Responsibilities


This position involves all aspects of sports information and athletic communications, including but not limited to:

  • Serving as the primary sports information contact for several sports
  • Managing statistics as official statistician at various sporting events, utilizing NCAA LiveStats (Genius) and/or PrestoStats
  • Writing and publishing game recaps and other news releases
  • Maintaining the athletics photo library
  • Maintaining and updating the athletics web site ( hornets.kzoo.edu ) on Sidearm CMS
  • Creating and posting content to social media accounts
  • Assist in overseeing live video streaming
  • Editing and printing game programs

Opportunities also exist to gain experience in audio broadcasting and photography, but are not required. Other duties may include historical research, publishing feature stories (video and/or written), etc.



Qualifications

  • Willingness and ability to work nights and weekends ( required)
  • Ability to work with and troubleshoot various technologies(required)
  • Previous experience working in a college sports information office is strongly preferred
  • Experience scoring games with StatCrew, PrestoStats, NCAA LiveStats (Genius) is strongly preferred
  • Strong writing ability, particularly in AP style, is strongly preferred
  • Strong ability to multi-task, set priorities, and meet deadlines
  • Experience with Photoshop/InDesign is preferred
  • Experience with Sidearm, Presto, or similar content management system is desired
  • Strong ability to multi-task, set priorities, and meet deadlines

Please direct any questions to Steve Wideen, Sports Information Director at swideen@kzoo.edu.


Applicants are asked to upload a resume and cover letter. Submitted applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. The target start date for successful candidate is on or before mid-September, but is negotiable.

Job Tags

Full time, Night shift, Weekend work,

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