Kenyon College invites applications for the position of Assistant Director of Athletics Communications. This is a full-time, 10-month reporting position with benefits. Under the general direction of the Director of Athletics Communications, the Assistant is responsible for promoting the College’s twenty-three varsity athletics programs, as well as fitness and recreation programs, through written, verbal and electronic communications. Primary duties include overseeing the upkeep of the Athletics Department’s website, writing press releases and game summaries, compiling in-game statistics, editing and maintaining photos and videos, documenting history and records, and cultivating communication with coaches, administrators, student-athletes and media. The Assistant Director of Athletics Communications will also help maintain the College’s athletics social media platforms and play an important operations role in live game coverage, including handling video streams, audio broadcasts and in-game statistics. In addition to office hours, the Assistant Director of Athletics Communications will be expected to work evenings and weekends, as required, and will travel to cover Kenyon’s teams when necessary. Other duties may be added with the addition of new technologies and expectations within the field.
It is also expected that the Assistant Director of Athletics Communications embraces the department mission of fostering learning and developing community with a focus on the values of citizenship, competition, resiliency, sportsmanship and teamwork within Kenyon’s unique campus culture. Successful candidates will be able to show a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in their support for students from diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and national backgrounds.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required. Previous experience in a sports information/athletics communications office preferred. Demonstrated knowledge in rules and statistics of the sports Kenyon offers.
Kenyon College is a nationally prominent, private liberal arts college where academic excellence goes hand in hand with a strong sense of community and close relationships among students and professors.
Kenyon College is an equal opportunity employer and applications from members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. It is the College's policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical and/or mental disability, age, religion, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy or state, local, or federal law. Kenyon College has a strong commitment to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.
Kenyon College is a highly selective liberal arts college of 1800 students located in the village of Gambier, 50 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio. The Owls currently compete in 22 intercollegiate sports, 11 men's and 11 women's, within the North Coast Athletic Conference (Division III). That number will grow to 23 in 2025-26, when women's golf is added. Kenyon is a founding member of the NCAC, the first conference in the country devoted to giving equal emphasis to men's and women's sports. Since the NCAC began competition in the 1984-85 academic year, Kenyon teams have collected 130 conference championships. Kenyon leads all NCAA Division III institutions with a total of 62 national championship trophies and ranks second with 91 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship award-winners.
Kenyon College is an equal opportunity employer and applications from members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. Kenyon College has a strong commitment to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.
