Sports Information Director

POSITION: Sports Information Director

SUPERVISOR: Assistant Vice President/Athletic Director

DEPARTMENT: Athletic Administration

LOCATION: On-campus located in Tiffin OH

JOB TYPE: Full-time

GRANT-FUNDED: No

SOC CODE: 27-2090

General Job Description for the Sports Information Director:

The Sports Information Director capitalizes on the visibility of an institutions athletic program to promote the institution and its mission expediting and stimulating positive media interest by providing a comfortable avenue for fair accurate coverage. The Sports Information Director serves as a positive communication link with a variety of the institutions constituents including the staff media fans community members alumni student-athletes parents and prospective students. This position will require evening and weekend hours and may be on-call to respond to requests from any of those groups.

Key Responsibilities for the Sports Information Director:

Public Relations Specialist

• Help gain publicity for athletes academic and athletic accomplishments via radio newspapers magazines television social media and the web.
• Help to raise the institutions national profile.
• Enhance opportunities for athletes coaches and institutions to receive awards or honors and ensure that all nomination materials are properly prepared and submitted.
• Maintain and update athletic website content while ensuring full ADA compliance.

Event Manager

• Organize train and supervise staff for statistical crews.
• Accommodate media and facilitate interviews.
• Provide information and statistics before during and after events to the media.

Television Coordinator Oversight

• Oversee all television programs for the university including pre- and post-production editing and software/hardware maintenance.

Publications Professional

• Produce numerous brochures media guides and schedule cards often with limited resources and short turnaround times reducing the need to hire outside vendors.
• Provide on-staff expertise in desktop publishing software.
• Manage an institutions athletics website keeping copy stats and photos updated daily.
• Possess expertise in printing processes paper grades trade standards printing costs and bidding to save thousands of dollars each year.

Administrator

• Manage operational budgets.
• Serve as a historical resource manage archival files and coordinate athletic Hall of Fame selections activities and operations.
• Manage photo files and coordinate photo shoots.
• Submit score reporting forms and other required materials to conference and national offices.
• Provide students with professional work opportunities and assist them in developing writing skills as well as communication and management skills.
• Oversee all social media for the department.

Qualifications for the Sports Information Director:

Education

• A bachelors degree is required.
• A masters degree is preferred.

Experience

• A minimum of two years of successful sports information in a collegiate athletic department.

Other

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel Word and desktop publishing tools.
• Skilled in statistical software with experience in web content management.
• Flexible schedule; available to work evenings and weekends as required.

Why Join Tiffin University

Tiffin University offers a collaborative mission-driven environment where your financial expertise directly supports student success and institutional growth. We value innovation transparency and partnershipand provide the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

At Tiffin University we believe in taking care of our employees. Thats why all full-time employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support their health financial security and work-life balance:

• Medical dental and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy.
• Health Savings Account with annual employer incentive contribution & Flex Spending Account with options to save pre-tax dollars for medical dental and vision expenses.
• Employer-paid basic life insurance and long-term disability plus voluntary plans for supplemental life insurance and short-term disability.
• A 403(b)-retirement plan with employer matching contributions to help you plan for the future.
• Generous paid annual and sick leave plus paid holidays throughout the year.
• Educational tuition benefits for you and eligible family members.
• Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for personal and professional support.

Tiffin University provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. While we strive for a diverse mix of candidates all employment decisions are made without regard to race sex or other protected characteristics.

Tiffin University is an Equal Opportunity Employer