Associate Director, Football Social Media & Student-Athlete Branding

Associate Director, Football Social Media & Student-Athlete Branding

University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN, US

The Associate Director, Football Social Media & Student-Athlete Branding will work within the Athletic Department’s External Affairs team, be part of the award-winning Fighting Irish Media Department, and will lead all social media channels for Notre Dame Football.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (4 years)
• Experience: 3 to 4 years managing a brand’s social media accounts
• Expert level knowledge in all aspects of social media
• Thorough knowledge of college football and high athletics
• EQ (know the commitment it takes to be a college student-athlete, have witnessed how revenue impacts the game, and have a general awareness of athlete competition)
• Demonstrate executive decision-making, organization, and professional communication skills including expressing vision for social media strategy to key stakeholders
• Experience expanding the brand on social media, collaborating with student-athletes and programs on content creation
• Experience with photography (use of DSLR/mirrorless camera systems and Adobe creative suite programs) and creation of photography content for the social media channels
• Experience manipulating provided Photoshop templates
• Willingness to be trained in studio photography for management of recruit photoshoots
• Experience in a collegiate and/or professional communications/content creation role required, including managing media and statistics, as it pertains to the social media output
• Experience in managing the output of information related to recruiting, team philosophy, game events and information, sponsored/partner content and fan engagement
• Ability to travel to all team games and special events is required as is the ability to work nights and weekends as needed
• Willingness to be trained and a proficiency in desktop publishing/video (InDesign & Photoshop)
• Secondary support of content creation for the program, alongside lead content creators will be a major part of success in this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of and compliance with NCAA and Notre Dame rules and regulations is imperative
• Experience in working with corporate sponsorship and/or student-athlete agents – both of which will be small parts of this role
• Extensive knowledge of college football
• Basic background knowledge of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)

Salary: Up to $80,000