Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Overview

The Athletics department invites applications for the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications. This role develops and implements communication strategies within the Athletic Communications office for the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. The position works with the women's basketball program as the primary communications contact and serves as the primary contact for additional sport assignments, ensuring all communications align with department, university, conference, and NCAA goals and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities include creating media guides, game notes, news releases, maintaining statistics and records, staffing practices, and serving as the liaison between the media and the sport program. The role collaborates with coaches and student-athletes to cultivate original content, including feature stories, for CU Athletics channels and media outreach to increase program coverage.

This position also oversees the CU Athletics Communications department's student assistant program, including recruitment, hiring prospective student workers, scheduling them for events, and supervising their progress. The role leads content planning and execution, media relations, gameday management, publications, and archiving within assigned sports.

The position operates in compliance with conference, NCAA, and University rules and regulations and promotes the philosophy and objectives of the intercollegiate athletics program, including adherence to the Athletic Department's Mission Statement, Core Values, Policies and Procedures, and NCAA, conference, and university rules.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• Serve as the primary communications contact for the women's basketball program. Act as the primary media contact and coordinate all media relations efforts, including press releases, media advisories, interview requests, press conferences, media training, credentialing, and game-day media operations.
• Collaborate with creative content teams in video, photography, graphic design, and digital content to develop and implement comprehensive communication plans that promote the program and student-athletes.
• Maintain biographies, rosters, schedules, statistics, results, and historical records while coordinating with conference and national offices to ensure accurate and timely information sharing.
• Produce game notes, record books, media guides, game programs, postseason materials, and other publications.
• Serve as the lead game-day communications administrator, overseeing media operations, credentialing, statistics distribution, press areas, and postgame materials; maintain and preserve the program's historical archive of documents, statistics, photos, and videos.
• Assist coaching staff as needed in recruiting support, historical information, and statistical research.
• Work with coaching staff to develop and produce original content, including feature stories, and pitch stories to the media on a regular basis.

• Serve as the primary communications contact for one or more additional varsity sports and coordinate all communication and publicity efforts for assigned sports.
• Serve as game-day communications manager in the areas of media relations, statistics generation, and press operations.
• Produce publications including record books, statistics reports, game programs, postseason materials, and other sport-specific publications.
• Maintain biographies, rosters, schedules, statistics, and results; work with conference and national offices to ensure accurate reporting and dissemination of information.
• Serve as lead archivist for assigned sports and maintain historical records including documents, statistics, photos, and videos; assist coaching staffs in scouting, recruiting support, and historical research as needed.