Duke University requests applications for the position of Assistant Director of Communications. The individual filling this full-time position will be a member of the Athletics Department's communications staff and report to the Executive Director of Communications.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: managing the daily communications responsibilities for assigned sports programs; producing media guides, game notes, news releases and feature stories; generating feature content, video and other unique coverage for GoDuke.com, the official website of Duke Athletics; responding to media requests; staffing home and selected away events; supervising statistical crews and other event support personnel; participation in the assigned sports’ creative working group; compiling statistics, researching historical records for Duke department of athletics publications and assisting the communications staff with additional duties.

Preferred Requirements include experience in a collegiate or professional media relations environment; outstanding oral and written communications skills; demonstrated organizational skills; and working knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, The Automated Scorebook and NCAA Live Stats.

Work generally requires one year experience in advertising, marketing, OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE activities. media, promotions, public relations or a related field to acquire skills necessary to implement a variety of sports information