Director of Athletic Communications & Media Relations

Texas A&M University System; Canyon (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

West Texas A&M University Athletics Department seeks a Director for Athletic Communications to lead media relations, publish press materials, and manage the department’s website for all teams. You will coordinate and supervise a staff, develop record books and recruiting brochures, and ensure timely statistics and feature articles.

This role requires exceptional writing and editing, strong media relationships, willingness to travel and work evenings and weekends, and adherence to university and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, sports management, marketing, or related field.
• Two years of work experience in collegiate sports information office.
• Experience writing and editing news and feature content.
• Experience managing websites and social media platforms.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Writing press releases, game programs and feature articles for all assigned sports.
• Maintain athletic department website and statistics.
• Coordinate media requests and host media at home events.
• Oversee game-day staff and social media assets.
• Train and supervise staff and student workers.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Media relations

Public relations

Social media

Communication

Project supervision

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Sidearm website editing

NCAA Livestats

StatCrew

Job description

West Texas A&M University Athletics Department seeks a Director for Athletic Communications to lead media relations, publish press materials, and manage the department’s website for all teams. You will coordinate and supervise a staff, develop record books and recruiting brochures, and ensure timely statistics and feature articles.

This role requires exceptional writing and editing, strong media relationships, willingness to travel and work evenings and weekends, and adherence to university and