Assistant Director, Athletic Marketing and Communications
Skidmore College
- Saratoga Springs, NY
- $55,000-62,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage game day statistics and ensure Skidmore Athletics is compliant with all Liberty League and NCAA data requirements.
- Manage the social media strategy and content calendar behind the primary @SkidmoreAthletics and @SkidmoreSports accounts, representing the Skidmore Thoroughbred brand online while inspiring, engaging, and educating priority audiences (fans, athletes, prospective students and families, alumni, and donors).
- Manage all aspects of SkidmoreAthletics.com and co-coordinate vendor relationships (SideArm, StatCrew).
- Collaborate with Skidmore Athletics leadership - Athletics Director, Assistant/Associate Directors and Coaches - to curate and disseminate athletics marketing content and support daily communications needs, including preparing programs for games and special events, nominations for league and national awards, and various scheduling and operations duties.
- Capture photos of individual players, teams, and other athletics-related content for College marketing use. Supervise freelance photographers. Coordinate with other College photographers for coverage.
- Hire and supervise a team of up to four student marketing assistants. Determine job responsibilities, hold weekly meetings, assign and review work. Serve as a mentor.
- Occasionally supervise part-time employees and assistant coaches specific to their in-game sports information responsibilities.
- Contribute as a core member of the ad-hoc Office of Communications and Marketing content team, writing occasional news or magazine stories and sharing athletics insights to help the whole team tell impactful stories.
- Collaborate with representatives of Admissions and Advancement in the Office of Communications to support Athletics messaging and content related to the engagement of prospective students and donors.
- Other duties as assigned.
- On-line application
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- List of Three References