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Primary Purpose:

Supports the accurate publicity and promotion of Nova Southeastern University’s 18 NCAA Intercollegiate athletic teams through the execution of assigned departmental responsibilities.

Job Category: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

We are excited that you are considering joining Nova Southeastern University!

We appreciate your support in making NSU the preeminent place to live, work, study and grow. Thank you for your interest in a career with Nova Southeastern University.

Primary Purpose:

Supports the accurate publicity and promotion of Nova Southeastern University’s 18 NCAA Intercollegiate athletic teams through the execution of assigned departmental responsibilities.

Job Category: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

Pay Basis: Hourly

Subject to Grant Funding? No

Essential Job Functions:

Implements the athletic department’s comprehensive public relations and communications strategy.
Coordinates with the Game Operations Manager to determine staffing needs and assist with scheduling event operations personnel for athletic contests.
Assists in the development, maintenance, and ongoing updates of the Nova Southeastern University Athletics website using HTML and web content management systems.
Produces written and visual content for publication layout design and provides editorial support for all athletic department publications and promotional materials.
Assists in development of content for athletic media guides, including season previews, student‑athlete and coach biographies, records, statistics, and opponent information.
Writes and distributes daily press releases and contributes content for the athletics website and other departmental publications.
Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with internal and external media representatives, as well as athletic sport information staff from opposing institutions.
Serves as play‑by‑play announcer and/or color analyst for selected athletic events streamed via online video and audio platforms, as assigned.
Compiles and manages statistics for assigned sports using STATCREW and PRESTO statistical software and coordinates enhanced live statistical displays on the athletics website.
Maintains and updates historical records and data for coaches, teams, and student‑athletes in assigned sports.
Prepares and submits nominations for student‑athletes, coaches, and teams for weekly, preseason, postseason, athletic, and academic awards through the Sunshine State Conference and the NCAA.
Contributes engaging and timely content across current athletic department social media platforms.
Reports weekly scores and statistical information to the Sunshine State Conference, coaches’ associations, and the NCAA for assigned sports.
Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Job Requirements:

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge:
1. English Language - Thorough knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
2. Communications and Media - Thorough knowledge of media production, visual, verbal, and interactive communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and persuade via written, oral, and visual media.
3. Digital Media - General knowledge of digital media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and persuade via digital, web, and social media.
4. Marketing - General knowledge of principles and methods for describing and promoting programs and services in order to achieve desired outcomes.
5. Customer and Personal Service - General knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of user satisfaction.
6. Advanced knowledge of standard Adobe Suite.

Skills:
1. Reading Comprehension - Advanced understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
2. Writing - Advanced skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
3. Time Management - Proficient skills in managing one's own time and the time of others.
4. Active Listening - Proficient skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
5. Speaking - Advanced skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
6. Critical Thinking - Advanced skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
7. Judgment and Decision Making - Proficient skills in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the appropriate one.
8. Coordination - Advanced skills in adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
9. Social Perceptiveness - Advanced skills in being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Abilities:
1. Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
2. Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
3. Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
4. Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Physical Requirements:
1. Near Vision - Must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
2. Speech Recognition - Must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
3. Speech Clarity - Must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you.
4. May be required to work nights or weekends.
5. Travel - Must be able to travel on a daily and/or overnight basis.
6. May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.

Required Certifications/Licensures:

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree

Major (if required:

Required Experience: Minimum of one (1) to two (2) years of Athletic Sports Information related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of NCAA sports rules and regulations.

Is this a safety sensitive position? No

Background Screening Required? No

Pre-Employment Conditions:

Sensitivity Disclaimer: Nova Southeastern University is in full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and does not discriminate with regard to applicants or employees with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodation when necessary.

NSU considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status.

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