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Job Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

·      Manage and assist in communications efforts for various sports determined by the Associate Athletic Director, Communications.

·      Write game previews and game recaps, update student-athlete and coach bios and write general news releases on department’s official website – USFDons.com.

·      Maintain statistics, records and photo archives for assigned sports.

·      Responsible for live and postgame statistics for all assigned sports. Must also be available to fill in as official statistician at home events as necessary.

·      Work closely with head coaches in researching proper promotions of teams and student-athletes for department website usfdons.com and social media platforms.

·      Write feature stories and share ideas in collaboration with creative team for social media graphics and video content across various platforms.

·      Create and maintain working relationships with local and national media outlets, proactively promoting coaches and student-athletes and facilitating requests from media.

·      Maintain various statistical and historical research projects as assigned, including team record books.

·      Properly archive game action photos and work with marketing team and conference office for photo requests and other materials as needed.

·      Facilitate various requests from coaching staffs, the West Coast Conference and NCAA.

·      Promote student-athletes for various national and conference awards.

·      Assist at men’s and women’s basketball home games.

·      Administrative/clerical duties include maintenance of game and team photo files and historical archives.

·      Assist with gameday staffing for assigned sports.

·      Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Understanding and appreciation of the mission, vision, and values of the University of San Francisco.
• Bachelor’s degree required, with emphasis on journalism, public relations, communications or related field.
• Minimum of 1 year of public relations, communications or sports information experience in an NCAA athletics department and/or professional sports organization.
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite is preferred (InDesign and Photoshop) .
• Basic knowledge of Stat Crew, NCAA Live Stats (Genius), Stat Input (Stat Broadcast).
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• Experience in feature writing, game coverage, copy editing and proofreading.
• Strong writing background from feature stories to game notes, and able to originate ideas for graphics and video for social media platforms.
• Well-versed in social media strategies and trends including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
• Knowledge of NCAA rules and regulations across all USF sponsored sports
• The position requires some travel and working evenings, weekends and select holidays in addition to daily office hours. Also requires other related duties as assigned by your supervisor and/or other department leadership.

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