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Job overview

Area of Responsibility
Communications/Sports Information
Type
Full-Time
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Associate Athletic Director, Content and Communications

University of TulsaFull-TimeTulsa, OK

Essential Functions (Responsibilities):

  • Organize, direct and administer the athletic communications and content office and the publicity for 17 intercollegiate sports.

  • Oversee and supervise staff in the athletic communications and content departments.

  • Develop and implement athletic brand standards and tools for brand decision-making.

  • Design, monitor and improve operational workflow to efficiently produce, distribute and manage rights to meaningful content.

  • Develop and implement a strategic media plan that enhances the Tulsa athletics image and brand. Expand programming and content creation capabilities across print, video, photography,

  • video, social media, etc. Increase distribution and fan consumption across broadcast, mobile, web, in-venue.

  • Manage the financial affairs of media production, ensuring costs remain within budget, providing appropriate reconciliations, forecasting short-term and long-term revenue and expense, working with Athletic staff on content monetization plans.

  • Handle all national TV broadcast communication and set-up for televised games, including providing TU team study materials, coach/player interviews with talent, site walkthrough with production team, and any site questions and needs.

  • Serve as the primary public relations agent for the athletic department and operates as the liaison between the athletic department, its coaches and players, and the media.

  • Serve as liaison between the athletic department’s communications office and the Conference media relations office and the NCAA statistics bureau.

  • Primary communications contact for football and women’s golf; secondary contact for m/w basketball, tennis and cross country.

  • Establish and maintain relationships with local, regional and national media, while pushing story ideas and promoting Tulsa athletics.

  • Oversee traditional sports information department duties, including, but not limited to: writing, edit/proofing of sport record & fact books, game notes, game advances, news releases, game recaps, game programs; compile statistical information, game and cumulative stats, for sports; coordinate and set-up all game day media operations; coordinate hiring of gameday workers needed for each sport; setup media interviews with athletes, coaches and athletic administrators; handle all media credential requests for athletic events; nominate and promote student-athletes for national, regional and conference awards.

  • Maintain official athletics website.

  • Travel and handle all road communications activities for football.

  • Assist TV Production Guides for broadcast television for football and basketball venues.

  • Coordinate all broadcast television activities to fulfill ESPN+ contract.

  • Manage and direct a team of students from our Pathways to Sports Academy program.