POSITION:                                           Assistant Director of Sports Information

DIVISION:                                           Institutional Advancement

CLASSIFICATION:                           Administrative

DEPARTMENT:                                  Institutional Advancement

POSITION REPORTS TO:                Director of Sports Information

JOB FUNCTION:                                Assists Director of Sports Information in coordinating a comprehensive program of publicity for Kings’ College’s intercollegiate athletic program via local, regional, and national print, and electronic media.

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS: 

1.       Develops relationships with members of the media.

2.       Provides game-day and pre- and post- game information and results to media representatives covering live games.  Includes media representatives for visiting colleges.

3.       Assists in pitching story ideas; coordinates and schedules interviews of coaches and student-athletes with media.

4.       Assists in implementation of a comprehensive hometown news release programs for student-athletes.

5.       Writing athletic-related stories, as assigned, for “Pride” (King’s alumni magazine).

6.       Assist in copy-writing and design of athletic-related publications, media guides, and brochures.

7.       Serves as a liaison between King’s College, the MAC, ECAC and NCAA.

8.       Compiles statistics for varsity athletic teams and distributes them to NCAA, MAC, and ECAC where appropriate.

9.       Produces and distributes statistics and results of national and regional championship events hosted by the college.

10.    Assists in the development and maintenance of the athletics pages on the King’s College website.

11.    Sells advertising, where necessary, for sporting events and/or program guides.

12.    Assists with all activities in press box for home football games; serves as a statistician for all home football and basketball games; assists in monitoring and addressing professional conduct of all press-box personnel where necessary.

13.    Travel with King’s College teams, as assigned by Director of Sports Information.

14.    Assists in recruitment and training of student statisticians for athletic events.

15.    Provides player and statistical  information to opponents for program and publicity purposes.

16.    Administrative duties assigned by Director of Athletics.

17.    Ability to work weekends as well as nights is required as assigned.

18.    Ability to travel independently to the college athletics fields when necessary.

NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS:

1.       Performs other related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:

1.       Bachelors degree.

2.       Experience in sports writing or having worked in a college sports information setting.

3.       Knowledge of NCAA statistics and policies for reporting to both the NCAA and MAC.

4.       Knowledge of computer statistics programs.