Associate Director, Strategic Communications

Duties & Responsibilities

• Handle daily communication and media-services responsibilities for baseball and assigned Olympic sports programs, working directly with coaches and student-athletes to produce positive coverage in print, news, and digital media.

• Use creative, innovative approach to generate positive promotion of sport programs.

• Work with coaching staffs and department promotions team to create publicity plans to reach various audiences through social media and websites.

• Write and edit daily, weekly and annual releases, feature stories and publications.

• Develop ideas, write and post material to Arizona’s official website, arizonawildcats.com.

• Utilize advanced photo editing skills for graphical use on website and social media.

• Coordinate with video department to schedule and produce multimedia materials.

• Maintain archival and records systems.

• Staff events in media-services capacity, while coordinating duties of support staff.

• Respond to written and phone queries from media and others by providing materials, statistics, photos, and information pertaining to sport.

• Assist or direct media operations at league and National Championship events hosted by the University.

• File game reports/statistical summaries to specific or requested news outlets, conference and NCAA offices.

• Assist in daily management of strategic communications for athletics as assigned by director.

• Assist in maintaining compliance with ICA, University, Big 12 Conference and NCAA guidelines and policies.

• Assist with managing student employees.

• Budget accountability.

• Additional duties as assigned.
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to multi-task with frequent interruptions.

• Fosters a collaborative work environment through respectful and effective communication.

• Critical thinking skills and ability to provide multiple solutions for situations.

• Ability to work nights and weekends as necessary.

• Proficient technology & software skills including Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Photoshop, InDesign.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively manage social media accounts (X, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) that represent official university athletics programs.

• Exceptional interpersonal communications skills including demonstrated writing experience and story-telling ability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience required.

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with SIDEARM Sports content management, and/or HTML.

• Previous experience with Photoshop, InDesign and other desktop publishing programs.

• Experience with NCAA rules and compliance issues pertaining to publicity and promotional efforts.

• Experience with NCAA Live Stats and its various programs.