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POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Sports Information Director, the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications is a year-round, full-time, benefits-eligible position within the Advancement Division’s College Marketing and Communication team. The assistant director works collaboratively with the sports information director to promote Kalamazoo College’s 22 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and will also demonstrate many of the following skills, abilities, and characteristics:

• Previous experience working in a college sports information/athletic communications office is strongly preferred
• Experience scoring games with NCAA LiveStats (Genius), PrestoStats and/or Statcrew is strongly preferred
• Strong writing ability, particularly in AP style, is strongly preferred
• Willingness and ability to work nights and weekends is required
• Ability to work with and troubleshoot various technologies required
• 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

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

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.