Sports Information Specialist - 82750

Job Description

Job Description

Founded in 1986, St. Charles Community College (SCC) has a reputation as one of the best two-year colleges in the state of Missouri. SCC's service area includes a six-county region with a population exceeding 540,000. SCC's main campus, located in Cottleville, has won architectural awards for its innovative, contemporary design. The college's Dardenne Creek Campus features the Center for Healthy Living and the Field to Table Institute. Opening Fall 2025, the Innovation West Campus located in Wentzville features the Regional Workforce Innovation Center. With a focus on innovation, St. Charles Community College is a leader in delivering high quality education in a state-of-the-art learning environment. The success of SCC is rooted in the mission of serving the community by "focusing on academic excellence, student success, workforce advancement, and life-long learning within a global society."SCC is seeking a full time Sports Information Specialist. This role involves writing press releases, maintaining statistics and records, updating the athletic department's website and social media, and coordinating interviews with coaches and athletes. They act as the key communication link between the sports program and various areas of the public, including the media, fans, and the institution itself.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Primary:Media relations: Serve as the point of contact for media requests, write press releases, and facilitate interviews.Content creation: Produce publications like media guides, game notes, and game programs.Information management: Maintain official statistics, team records, and historical data.Digital presence: Update and manage the content on the team's athletics website and social media accounts.Contributes to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Maintains competency of current college policies and procedures and can answer general questions. Helps to ensure the department's overall success by performing related duties as assigned.Ability to understand and follow college policies, guidelines, and procedures in order to meet organizational directives and goals. Must be able to communicate in a positive and effective manner with diverse, multicultural stakeholders/constituents, and students. Other duties as assignedAdministrative: Fill in administrative assistant duties as needed.Responsible for providing administrative support to ensure efficient operation of the office and department. Supports manager and employees through a variety of tasks related to the college by answering questions and responding to requests, receiving, and directing visitors, staff, students, and faculty. Interacts with people in a professional, open, honest, and welcoming manner supporting the mission and goals of the college. Self-motivated with good organizational and problem-solving skills.Assists assigned administrator in accomplishing various tasks, including organizing meetings, compiling agendas, distributing materials, monitoring budgets and producing and maintaining reports. Organizes functions and activities promoted by the program area. Collects, researches, compiles, analyzes, verifies, summarizes, records, and evaluates information; prepares and distributes narrative, statistical, and financial data on behalf of administration.Other duties, as assigned.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSBachelor 's degree and a minimum of three years' athletic department experience at the collegiate level is essential.Knowledge of NJCAA rules and regulations and experience with intercollegiate athletics is preferred.Knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of sports in a community college setting is essential. This position requires strong interpersonal/human relations skills and must possess verbal and written communication skills. This position must possess planning and organizational skills along with report preparation and supervisory skills. This position must have the ability to learn and apply institutional policies and procedures, and the ability to maintain high level of confidentiality, professionalism and trustworthiness. This position must have the ability to operate personal computer with various software programs, the ability to compose and edit a variety of memoranda or letters and the ability to attend to details and handle multiple tasksSt Charles Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer