- Men's Basketball: Serve as the lead contact for Pacific Men's Basketball regarding all communications, media relations, publicity, and content.
- Leadership: Lead the Athletics Communications, Marketing, and Creative Content units in the creation and dissemination of Pacific Athletics content including, but not limited to website releases, social media posts, game/feature stories, video interviews, video highlights, statistics, and biographical information. Manage the department budget. Act as the institutional spokesperson on topics related to the Pacific Athletics Department and serve as a lead communicator with conferences and other universities' communications personnel.
- Storytelling: Collaboratively work with Pacific Strategic Communications to publicize Pacific Athletics, including generating a weekly story for the university's newsletter.
- Marketing and Promotions: Develop and implement innovative and sustainable marketing plans established to educate, inform, and attract target audiences, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of the programming, in collaboration with Development and Alumni Relations.
- Supervision: Hire, train, develop, and supervise student, full-time, and part-time staff.
- Website: Manage the athletics website with a strategy to increase engagement as measured by time on site, clicks, etc. Establish an approach to maintaining accurate, up-to-date, and timely content and news dissemination. Handle record book management and archiving procedures.
- Media and Interviews: Pitch and solicit stories, respond to requests from, and maintain a positive relationship with local, regional, and national print, radio, TV, and internet media representatives.
- Social Media: Manage and post the athletic event components such as pregame, in-game, and post-game. Coordinate and collaborate with the Assistant Director of Athletics for Fan Engagement.
- Public Relations: Provide oversight and direction to coaches, staff, and student-athletes on media relations policies, public relations, written materials, and assist them in disseminating appropriate information when dealing with the media. Coordinate media training for coaches and student-athletes.
- Perform other duties as assigned or requested.
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Five (5) years of experience in athletics communications, media relations, journalism, marketing, or a related field.
- Master's Degree.
- Eight (8) years of experience in communication services and/or media relations.
- Experience in college athletics, preferably NCAA Division I athletic program serving as the primary communications contact for Men's Basketball.
- Demonstrated strong writing, editing and management skills, with the ability to write for a variety of media and audiences.
- Positive attitude.
- Experience and sensitivity in working with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- Demonstrated experience in advancing social justice, equity, and inclusion in a university setting.
- Ability to engage and integrate culturally responsive practices and knowledge in their work.
Work is primarily performed in a standard office environment and in sports facilities with use of computer and phone. Work is primarily performed during normal business hours, but may include odd hours, nights, and weekends to meet business needs. Travel is required for some road contests of assigned teams.
All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment are required to execute a release and authorization for a background screening.
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