Visiting AssociateAssistant in Sports Media

Visiting Associate/Assistant in Sports Media

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The University of Floridas College of Journalism and Communications (CJC) in Gainesville seeks an accomplished sports media professional to join our faculty as a Visiting Assistant In/Associate In for Sports Media position.

This position is a 3year appointment and is a 12month essential personnel nontenure track role designed for candidates with a strong background in any of the following areas: sports media production broadcast as well as experience across various media platforms.

The selected candidate will be responsible for teaching mentoring students managing content creation and participating in professional organizations with a focus on enhancing the educational experience in sports media. The successful candidate should offer distinguished service to its department college university and profession.

Key Responsibilities

Teach up to the equivalent of two threecredithour courses per semester.

Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students as assigned.

Promote oversee & teach select immersive experiences in our program

Manage student content creation within the Innovation News Center (INC).

Oversee and schedule student content coverage for WRUF and WUFT.

Collaborate and facilitate content creation with fellow managers within the INC.

Participate in scholarly and professional organizations.

Engage in shared governance and perform other duties as assigned.

More about UFs College of Journalism and Communications

Accredited by ACEJMC the college has earned its reputation for excellence over the last half century on the strength of its programs faculty students and alumni; the stories they tell; and the difference they make around the world. The college provides immersive learning through the INC; Fresh Take Florida; projectbased and study abroad journalistic courses; the Agency the Division of Multimedia Properties; the Summer Media Institute for high school students; extensive research offerings; and many more extracurricular groups and programs. Our 84 fulltime faculty members and 139 parttime colleagues serve in four academic departments: Advertising Journalism Public Relations and Media Production Management and Technology. We enroll about 2400 undergraduates both inperson and online. Nearly 120 graduate students are earning masters and doctoral degrees. Another 750 are pursuing online masters and graduate certificates.

About the University of Florida

UF is the states sole member of the Association of American Universities. In 2023 UF faculty generated more than $1.1 billion in research grants including a comprehensive longterm AI initiative UF research is enhanced by the availability of stateoftheart infrastructure that includes a supercomputer.

The University of Florida offers a competitive salary commensurate with similar positions and includes a full benefits package. To view the universitys Total Reward benefit package please click here: is among the top colleges for journalism and communications in the world. Our faculty are collaborative and ambitious for ourselves and our students. We publish in top professional and research outlets. Our students are regularly recognized in national and regional journalism awards including Hearst Murrow Emmys Tellys the Society of Professional Journalists the Online News Association the Broadcast Education Association the Society of Environmental Journalists and many others.

Our engaged alumni who lead newsrooms and report across the globe have won 32 Pulitzer Prizes.

Our immersive teaching model trains undergraduate and graduate students on professional platforms to produce highcaliber news content for mass audiences. Journalism faculty collaborate with our colleagues in CJCs Media Production Management and Technology Public Relations and Advertising departments on contemporary curriculum to prepare students for a wide range of careers. We also partner across disciplines with faculty in UFs 15 other colleges on projects ranging from college sports ethics to helping the world visualize climate change.

About Gainesville Florida

As home to Floridas largest and oldest university Gainesville http://cityofgainesville is one of the states centers of education medicine cultural events and athletics. Gainesville and the surrounding areas are home to about 250000 people a robust arts community several museums a worldclass health care system anchored at UF a downtown core known for its restaurants and brew pubs excellent public and private schools and abundant nature exemplified by clear natural springs. Additionally within two hours are attractions such as Disney World Universal Studios Busch Gardens and historic St. Augustine. Explore Gainesville in 60 Seconds.

For additional questions or more information please contact search committee chair Eric Esterline at

Degrees earned from educational institutions outside of the United States must be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) which can be found at http// The application packet will be submitted as one PDF file through the UF Jobs website at All candidates for employment are subject to preemployment screening which includes a review of criminal records reference checks and verification of education.

The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to nondiscrimination with respect to race creed color religion age disability sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression marital status national origin political opinions or affiliations genetic information and veteran status in all aspects of employment including recruitment hiring promotion transfers discipline terminations wage and salary administration benefits and training.

Floridas GovernmentintheSunshine laws require that all documents relating to the search process including letters of application nomination and reference be available for public inspection.

This is a timelimited position.