Assistant Director - Athletic Communications

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By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways,inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the historic heart of Harvard University. It is the home of Harvard’s undergraduate program (Harvard College, founded in 1636) as well as all of Harvard’s Ph.D. programs (the Harvard Kenneth

C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1872), Harvard Athletics and the Division of Continuing Education. The 40 academic departments and 30+ centers of the FAS support a community unparalleled in its academic excellence across the broadest rangeof liberal arts and sciences disciplines. Together, the FAS seeksto foster an environment of ambition, curiosity and shared commitment to knowledge and truth that elicits excellence from all members of our community and prepares the next generation ofleaders through a transformative educational experience.

This position plays a key role in publicizing select Varsity sportsfor the Department of Athletics, which has a 42-sport Division Iathletics program. Handles sports public relations, media relations, and communications and information for assigned sports.

Promotes positive branding, press coverage, strategic communications, social media, multimedia and messaging to various constituents, using a variety of traditional media as well as newmedia outlets. Constituents include prospective student-athletes;game-day attendees, alumni/ae, fans, and the entire University community. Works with select sports to ensure that appropriate

Athletics storylines are created and communicated; statistics,schedules, rosters, game recaps and other information is communicated to the proper media outlets. Handles media interviewrequests. Assists with archiving historical records. This positiongreatly enhances both the external and internal image of the Department.

• Pro-actively communicates with media about, and solicits mediacoverage for, events and feature stories on Harvard athletes,teams, and other Department milestones/accomplishments.
• Conceives and creates content for a dynamic Department website(including web streaming and other multimedia), which serves as aprimary source of information regarding Harvard Athletics (  ).
• Directly responsible for publicity efforts in assigned sports.
  
  Media point-of-contact for assigned sports.
• Designs, writes and edits printed game programs, special eventpublications and press releases.
• Informs and educates athletes, coaches, administrators, andother Department of Athletics constituents about effective methodsof media interaction.
• Oversees media relations at home events and travels withvarsity teams to cover select competitions.

• Stays abreast of and proficient with emergent technologies(both hardware and software) and multimedia techniques in order topromote Department programs and maintain multimedia files. Plays aleadership role in the acquisition, editing, transfer and storageof event video and highlight files.
• Coordinates social media/ networking initiatives among the department with effective strategy and foresight for informationdelivery protocols.

• Recruits, hires, trains, schedules, supervises, and…