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Athletic Communications Student Worker

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Position Title: Athletic Communications Student Worker

Semester/Year: 2024-2025 Academic School Year

Total Positions Available: Multiple

Supervisor: Mackenzie Larsen

Pay rate: $15 per hour

Hours per wk: 3-6 hours

Start Date: August 18, 2023

End Date: May 20, 2025

 

Position Description

The Athletics Communications office works to promote HWS varsity athletic teams. We are responsible for hwsathletics.com, as well as, all HWS athletics social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Threads and YouTube). In addition, we keep statistics at games, produce live webcasts and work with local and national media outlets. This is an outstanding opportunity for students who are interested in pursuing a career in communications.

 

We are looking to hire student workers to help in the office, at games and on our webstreams

 

Responsibilities

Office work: (Assignments based on skill set) 

  • Help maintain and build history pages on HWSAthletics.com. 
  • Sort through photos of athletics contests.
  • Photo editing and graphic creating with Photoshop
  • If asked assist with writing releases for website
  • Video Etting with Premier Pro or Premier Rush

 

Gameday work: 

  • Serve as spotter/statistics caller for statistics inputter
  • Statistics inputting
  • Run stats to coaches at halftime. 
  • Assist with general gameday needs

 

Social Media

  • Produce content during games to include video highlights, commentary and graphics
  • Produce additional content on non-gamedays.

 

Video Production of Games at Boswell Field: 

  • Camera operators 
    • Sideline roaming camera to get field level view of game
    • Center camera in press box for primary view of game
  • Producer
    • Runs web stream on Tricaster 
    • Communicate with website provider should stream drop
    • Be in constant communication with both camera operators
    • Manage on-screen graphics
    • Coordinate with on-air talent (play-by-play,analyst)

 

Qualifications

  • Strong organizational skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Flexibility and willingness to learn new skills.
  • Ability to follow instructions and work with minimal supervision.

 

Application Instructions

Review of applications will begin immediately. You may be contacted by the hiring supervisor for additional information/ an interview. Please ensure to upload your resume as well as include at least one reference. An interview will be required.