Sports Information

**Position Purpose and** **Summary**

The Sports Information & Media Assistant assists in executing the communications plan for Spartan Athletics with content creation being the focus of the role.

**Key Areas of Accountability**

**Game Night Duties**
- Overseeing the production of video and photo content.
- Assisting with broadcast production.
- Assisting in social media content and distribution.
- Assisting in game night communications duties as needed.

**Weekday Duties**
- Creating video and photo content for Spartan Athletics, including features and promotional material.
- Writing stories and previews, as needed.
- Assisting in broadcast production planning.
- Assisting in photographic and videographic story-telling.

**Communications Assistance**
- Assist in social media content and distribution.
- Assist in newsletter distribution.
- Assist in communications planning and direction.
- Assist in day-to-day communications needs.

**The Person**

**Skills and Abilities**
- Excellent video shooting and editing skills.
- Excellent sports photography skills
- Efficient and concise writer within a deadline-driven environment.
- Independent thinker with “outside the box” ideas.
- Task-oriented with the ability to complete tasks within a fast-paced environment.
- Able to work independently or as part of a team as needed.
- Ability to work weekends during the sports season (September to December and January to March).

**Personal**

Driven and inspired by the idea of positively impacting the various marketplaces of life through the development of godly Christian leaders by serving the Trinity Western University community.

A dedicated and mature evangelical Christian with an earnest desire to serve in family, church, work, and community. Affirm and support TWU’s mission, values, Statement of Faith, and Community Covenant. Strength of character and reputation, integrity, focused. A winsome personality with a positive and friendly attitude.

**Servant-Leader Way of Life**:Act in a manner that exemplifies Jesus Christ in all on and off-campus contacts thereby living out the servant leadership mission of the university and contributing effectively towards achieving the institutional and Kingdom goals of the organization.

**Key Internal Interactions**

**Reports**:None

**Reports to**:Associate Director of Athletics, Media & Marketing

**Standards & Requirements**

**Education**: Communications or Journalism degree.

**Experience**: 1-3 years of experience within the sports journalism field.
- Duties and responsibilities that do not constitute a major change may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of the supervisor either orally or in writing._

**Benefits Of Working at TWU**:

- A comprehensive benefits package which includes extended health, dental, and insurance and an RRSP matching program.
- Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
- Tuition Benefit for TWU undergraduate and graduate level courses to enhance knowledge and professional competency.
- Torch tuition scholarship for dependents of eligible employees attending TWU.
- Free access to TWU’s fitness/gym facilities and the Norma Marion Alloway Library.
- Discounts and perks for the on-site Trinity Western Outfitters bookstore and cafeterias, as well as shops and restaurants in Fort Langley.
- Wellness benefits (i.e., counselling, sick days, personal days, and reimbursement for annual wellness/recreation related purchases).
- Free recreational equipment rentals (e.g., paddle boards, snowshoes, kayaks, etc.).
- Free employee parking on campus.
- Special community events throughout the year.
- A positive Christian fellowship environment.- Trinity Western University is located on the traditional ancestral territory of the Sto:lo people._