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Primary Purpose:
Integrates and strengthens the University's intercollegiate athletic teams and Department of Athletics brand, identity, national presence, and overall messaging and communication while supporting corporate partnerships, fundraising efforts, and revenue-driven strategies.
Job Category: Exempt
Hiring Range:
Pay Basis: Annually
Subject to Grant Funding? No
Essential Job Functions:
1. Maintains all media distribution lists and oversees the media relations plan for the Sports Information unit, promoting NSU Athletics on a local, state and national level.
2. Writes, edits, and oversees the dissemination of press releases, feature stories, and website content.
3. Assists coaches, teams, student-athletes, and marketing staff in promoting community engagement initiatives and special events.
4. Contributes written and visual content to departmental social media platforms in alignment with brand standards.
5. Tracks and analyzes engagement metrics to evaluate content effectiveness and inform strategy.
6. Coordinates messaging between communications and development units to ensure consistency in donor and sponsor outreach.
7. Supports ticket sales, premium seating initiatives, and revenue-generating events through strategic communication campaigns.
8. Assists in leveraging and establishing corporate partnerships to enhance marketing, promotion, and branding efforts.
9. Develops sponsored content opportunities and branded storytelling initiatives that align with corporate sponsorships.
10. Performs other duties as assigned or required.
11. Completes special projects as assigned.
Job Requirements:
Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge:
1. Communications and Media - 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.
2. Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for describing and promoting programs and services in order to achieve desired outcomes.
3. English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
4. Customer and Personal Service - 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.
5. Knowledge of collegiate structure processes and NCAA rules.
Skills:
1. Speaking - Proficient skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
2. 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.
3. Time Management - Proficient skills in managing one's own time and the time of others.
4. Reading Comprehension - Proficient understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
5. Social Perceptiveness - Proficient skills in being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
6. Writing - Proficient skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
7. Coordination - Proficient skills in adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
8. Critical Thinking - Proficient skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
9. Persuasion - Proficient skills in persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
10. Complex Problem Solving - Proficient skills in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
11. Judgment and Decision Making - Proficient skills in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the appropriate one.
Abilities:
1. Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
2. Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
3. Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
4. Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
5. Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
6. Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
7. Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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. Travel - Must be able to travel on a daily and/or overnight basis.
5. May be required to work nights or weekends.
6. May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.
7. May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, and computer keyboards.
Required Certifications/Licensures:
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Major (if required:
Required Experience: Two (2) to four (4) years of communications-related work along with fundraising.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree
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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and 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.
