Supervisory Responsibility: This position directly supervises 12-18 interns and work-study students.

Work Environment: Fairly frequent traveling in-season, including travel with men’s basketball team to all away-from-home events.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Exempt/35 hours/week Coordinator/Analyst B Nights and weekends as required

Essential Functions: Writes and edits external athletic messaging in order to provide accurate and relevant information to the public and the media. Prepares and provides pre- and postgame information for approximately half of AU’s athletic contests in order to provide accurate and relevant information to the public and the media.

Serves as the primary media relations contact for Men’s Basketball, Women’s Soccer, and Men’s Soccer. Makes final decisions on record-book structure (including layout and design, statistical structure and content), feature stories for the AU website. Maintains team web pages, team video highlights, photos, and all social media applications for each sport assignment. Drafts press releases.

Serves as producer of all live-streamed home events

Manages event staff and compilation of statistics at approximately half of AU’s athletic contests in order to provide accurate and relevant information to the public and the media.

Responsible for the supervision and training of all interns and part-time employees. Maintains general office order and organization in office to maintain a smooth running office, and proper game-day media relations/operations for the Athletic Department.

Conducts research to create and maintain records.

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