Assistant Athletic Director for Communications and Digital Media

Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Other duties may be assigned. Understand and agree to abide by the mission of CBU and the CBU Athletics Department. This individual performs the role of an internal beat reporter focusing on telling compelling stories in written video social media graphics or other innovative formats in collaboration with team members of the external unit. Supervises manages and trains communications team including Director of Communications and Assistant Directors of Communications as well as student workers and vendors and determines sports assignments. Maintain the athletics department website. Write and edit various department communication materials including postseason publications press releases record books and content for the departments website. Work closely with athletics department staff and coaches to promote stories of the department through digital and social media platforms. Develop and write both in news and feature form press releases about coaches and student-athletes and disseminate this information to the media and the public via the athletics website and social media platforms to publicize teams. Nominate and promote student-athletes and coaches for awards. Maintain historical records statistics and photographs among other important department information. Oversee credential needs for the athletics departments including producing and distributing passes for home events. Coordinate team schedule approval process with Associate AD of Facilities including coordination with the campus master calendar system while also managing schedule change form requests for the athletics department. Provide support for television radio and streaming broadcasts of games and events as needed for the athletics department. Manage the Communications and Digital Media department budget. Maintain vendor relationships including but not limited to SIDEARM Sports INFLCR StatBroadcast Genius StatCrew FOSH etc. while overseeing any necessary training for staff. Assist in compiling information on athletics department accomplishments and highlights for the Presidents Report on a regular basis. Coordinate the hiring and scheduling of student workers and game day staffing as needed. Adhere to all NCAA Conference and University policies rules regulations and operational procedures.