General Information

Position Title: Director of Athletic Communications
Control Number: 000675
Reports To: 001031
Department Name: Communications
Location: Communications
Date Prepared: '06
Exempt: Yes

Primary Purpose

Promotes Middlebury College athletics by providing administrative support to the Director of Athletics and the Director of Public Affairs while overseeing all aspects of athletic communications

Responsibilities

Works cooperatively with others and accepts direction from supervisors.

Publicizes the college’s athletic teams via the media and the Web. The director attends and staffs all home contests and is responsible for disseminating information from the contests to the media, and via the college’s Web site. The director also supplies this information to Middlebury’s opponents for use on their Web sites and by their local media.

Responsible for maintaining an up-to-date athletic website. This time-intensive endeavor requires daily attention with an emphasis on posting the latest scores.

Responsible for all aspects of maintaining and updating the photography archives. Annual head shots, team pictures and action shots are taken and added to the archives each year.

Maintains professional and strong relationships with the local media. Calls on them to suggest feature stories and ideas to gain more publicity for the Department of Athletics.

Writes a weekly press release that is mailed to each student-athlete’s hometown when he/she is mentioned in the piece. Hometown releases are also completed when an athlete earns specials awards or recognition.

Writes a weekly electronic newsletter, SportsNotes, that summarizes the contests from the previous week, and sends it to more than 3,000 subscribers who are members of the faculty, staff, students, media, alumni, and the public.

Supervises and oversees student-workers who staff home games as well as work regular weekly office hours.

Supervises and coordinates publication of football program on an annual basis.

Creates game programs for each home contest where they are deemed necessary. Maintains up-to-date rosters, results and statistics for each of Middlebury’s 30 varsity athletic teams.

Maintains athletic archive.

Education & Training

Bachelor's degree required

Experience

Minimum three to five years of experience in athletic communications.

Knowledge

Must have advanced PC computer skills. Experience with Statecrew, Indesign, Photoshop, Excel and Word a necessity. Must have previous experience updating and maintaining Web sites

Other

Good communication skills, both verbal and written, required