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Position Summary:

The Assistant Director, Athletic Communications will act as the primary point of contact for assigned sports with the department, conference, and media to respond to inquiries and requests while also generating content based on proactive interactions with all parties. This position will manage content on RiceOwls.com for assigned sports and will support and enhance all sport-specific social media content generated in collaboration with the department's creative team. In addition, this position will use support software to track statistics during athletic events and oversee support staff at athletic events.

Workplace Requirements:

On campus position: This position is exclusively on-site, necessitating all duties to be performed in-person. Per Rice policy 440, work arrangements may be subject to change.

• Must be available to work nights, weekends, and holidays as team and event schedules requires
• Frequent travel during season

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• One or more (1+) years of related experience

Skills

• Correspond professionally both in writing and orally
• Familiar with MS Office Suite
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite

Preferences

• Master's degree

Essential Functions:

• Assists in the implementation of and supports program communication efforts, including timely creation and editing of marketing campaigns, websites, blogs, emails, and newsletters
• Assists others in identifying and developing campus news stories
• Reviews upcoming events, seminars, research reports, grant summaries, campus documents, specialized journals, and newsletters for possible leads to news and feature stories
• Assists in content production for applicable university and / or unit websites; promotes news stories to targeted regional, national, and international media
• Coordinates media relations and ensures logistics / preparations are handled for media staff
• Point of contact for assigned sports with the department, conference, and media (both school and professional) to respond to inquiries and requests while also generating content based on proactive interactions with the same.
• Produce annual (Fact/Record Book) and weekly (notes) materials to assist various entities in their coverage.
• Primary manager of content on RiceOwls.com for each assigned sport including but not limited to editorial, biographical and specialty pages in addition to rosters, schedules and results as well as photos (and photo galleries).
• Manage photography, selecting images for website bios, recaps and social media which includes properly identifying student-athletes as well as developing a working knowledge of archived photos of former athletes on Box or other storage platforms. Coordinate the yearly updating of athlete mug shots for the website.
• Liaison with the conference office, providing competition updates each week
• Performs all other duties as assigned

Additional Functions

• Support and enhance all sport-specific social media content generated by the creative team.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of each sport's statistics and event flow as well as any software programs used to support each (StatCrew and Genius) and verify for accuracy either as your sole responsibility or managing stats table staff.
• Develop a working knowledge of sport-specific websites (tfrrs.org, swimcloud.com, etc.-) as well as the statistics pages on NCAA.com and how the results correlate to each respective team to determine rankings and relevance.
• Utilize said knowledge to create previews or other bullet points and notes to be distributed in order to promote upcoming events or student-athletes.
• as requested as well as submitting nominations for any awards (weekly, season, academic)
• Main contact for annual events such as: Rice Invitational (Men's Tennis), as well as any conference or NCAA we host in assigned sports.
• Staff all home events, along with the potential for occasional travel if warranted.
• Perform any other unique sport-specific duties as required when hosting an event.

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