About Seattle Pacific University:

Founded in 1891, Seattle Pacific University has a long and distinguished history in Christian higher education. Located just minutes from downtown Seattle, SPU seeks to be a premier Christian University fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community. Seattle Pacific University seeks applicants committed to its Christian mission.

Diversity Statement

As part of our mission of cultural engagement, SPU is committed to building an excellent and diverse staff and faculty. Diversity is an ethos that is inseparable from our Christian faith. At SPU, we recognize diversity as a basic feature of God's creation and a core theme of the gospel. At the heart of our mission-centered commitment to becoming a more diverse community is a desire to represent the breadth of God's kingdom more fully.

We strive to become a workplace of choice and to recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff who can embrace, value, and engage differences with humility and care. We invite you to join us on our journey by starting a career at SPU! Learn more about SPU's commitment to diversity and opportunities for our employees to deepen their capacity to serve our increasingly diverse student body.

Seattle Pacific University provides reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Department at (206)281-2809, or email hr@spu.edu. Notification must be given at least five (5) working days before the accommodation is needed.

Job Description:

General Summary: Leads the department efforts with media coordination, game day professional staff supervision, and social media management for all Athletic and special department events. Assists in the development management and coordination of all functions necessary to efficiently provide sports information services for the SPU Intercollegiate Athletic Program.

• Serves as a member of the Athletics Senior Management Team in developing departmental programs and in policy and procedural decisions.
• Oversees the planning and implementation of athletic communication efforts to develop awareness and create a high-quality entertainment venue. Actively publicizes athletic events using various media including social media, electronic mail, and website content.
• Oversees department social media and graphic efforts in promotion of athletic events and student athlete success.
• Coordinates and supervises staff and operational needs for effective event management including pre-game music, stats crew, PA announcements and oversight of the livestream for all games and contests.
• Supervises Asst SID position, delegating tasks and managing the department's overall sports information and communication efforts.  At the discretion of the AD, may also have sport supervision responsibility.
• Oversight of graphic design student worker and lead graphic design efforts for website, social media, and print materials to ensure consistent, engaging, and relevant branding using multiple visual platforms.
• Nominates athletes for various academic awards at the conference, regional and national level.
• Oversees all aspects of spufalcons.com. Ensure website is current and regularly updated in all facets including team information, team rosters and headshots, bios of athletes coaches and staff, etc.
• Official spokesperson for SPU Intercollegiate Athletic Program, actively promoting and publicizing all aspects of the department.
• Initiates and maintains professional relationships with local, regional and select national media representatives (radio, television, newspaper, magazines, etc.).
• Maintains communication with University Communication department for campus needs.
• Shared oversight of SPU Media Days for student athletes.
• Provides required statistics and media materials for all teams and all post-season championship athletic events.
• Engages the University community by participating in campus activities to include faculty meetings, all-staff meetings, chapels, forums, retreats and other opportunities for building relationships and advocating Athletics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, master's degree a plus.
• 3+ years of collegiate sports communication work or similar related experience.
• Willingness to actively support the Christian mission of the University and accept the life-style standards of the Christian Community.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coaches, athletes, students, faculty, administration and the community. 
• Experience in/familiarity with Genius Stats, StatCrew, SportStat Illustrator, Photoshop, social media. Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel.