Football Alumni Relations Coordinator

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Job Category:

Academic Staff

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Profile:

Athl Prog Operations Mgr

Job Summary:

The Football Alumni Relations Coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing initiatives that strengthen relationships between the football program and its alumni. This position serves as the primary liaison between former football student-athletes, coaches, and the current football staff and current student-athletes, fostering a lifelong connection that supports the program’s goals, traditions, and community presence. This position will work alongside the alumni relations department and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the football program and athletics department goals are met.

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.

Job Category:

Academic Staff

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Profile:

Athl Prog Operations Mgr

Job Summary:

The Football Alumni Relations Coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing initiatives that strengthen relationships between the football program and its alumni. This position serves as the primary liaison between former football student-athletes, coaches, and the current football staff and current student-athletes, fostering a lifelong connection that supports the program’s goals, traditions, and community presence. This position will work alongside the alumni relations department and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the football program and athletics department goals are met.

In addition, this position will play a key role in building and maintaining positive relationships with high school coaches and athletic programs, across the region and nation, to support ongoing recruiting and community engagement efforts. The incumbent will ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted in full compliance with NCAA, Big Ten Conference, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Athletics Department policies, procedures, and regulations.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• May travel with assigned team to ensure compliance with applicable state and university rules

• Schedules logistics, secures resources, and finalizes team scheduling of facilities and travel for games, practices, camps, clinics, and special events

• Evaluates existing strategies, policies, and procedures and makes recommendations to unit leadership for program enhancement; ensures compliance with existing requirements

• Manages the unit or program budget

• Monitors student-athlete academic eligibility and status to ensure compliance with established rules and regulations

• May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees

Department:

Wisconsin Athletics, Football

Compensation:

The minimum starting salary is $72,000, but may be negotiable depending on qualifications and experience.
 

Employees in this position can also expect to receive benefits such as:

• Generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off;

• Competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits;

• Badger gear & season tickets for Badger football, men's basketball and men's hockey, and/or the varsity sports pass.
   

More Benefits information can be found at https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/

Required Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in alumni relations, athletic administration, event planning, or related field

• Must be knowledgeable of the rules and regulations governing the NCAA and B1G conference

• Proven organizational and event planning/management skills

• Proficiency with social media and digital marketing tools

• Ability to multi-task and work under time constraints

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work evenings and weekends, and travel as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in collegiate or professional football programs

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Sports Management, or related field

How to Apply:

To ensure full consideration, please submit your completed application no later than 11:55 p.m. CST on the apply by date. Your application should include:

A cover letter detailing how your qualifications and experiences align with the responsibilities of the position. A comprehensive resume.

Please note that reference checks will be conducted for finalists. Applicants selected to proceed in the selection process will be notified directly. All applicants will receive notification once a final selection has been made and the search is complete.
 

Conditions of Appointment: This is a 100% Academic Staff appointment. Salary will be assigned within the appropriate range, commensurate with the candidate's qualifications and experience. An excellent benefits package is also included. Successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e., a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

Unless confidentiality is requested in your online application, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality.

UW-Madison conducts criminal background checks for final candidate(s).

Contact Information:

Kayla Weisensel at kw4@athletics.wisc.edu

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Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgrounds and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more information regarding applicant and employee rights and to view federal and state required postings, visit the Human Resources Workplace Poster website.

To request a disability or pregnancy-related accommodation for any step in the hiring process (e.g., application, interview, pre-employment testing, etc.), please contact the Divisional Disability Representative (DDR) in the division you are applying to. Please make your request as soon as possible to help the university respond most effectively to you.

Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment. 
 
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7). 
 
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