Opening for Journalist - USF Athletics/Communications

USF has an opening on its Athletics Communications Staff. Will consider sports journalists interesting in transitioning into intercollegiate athletics industry. Similar, but not identical, to model at University of Florida. Seeking strong and prolific writer with flexible responsibilities likely to include editorial oversight of gousfbulls.com, content development including use of multimedia and social media, feature and game-story writing, blogging, some traditional SID duties, other department-wide communications (e.g. fundraising, recruiting, executive), etc. Email resume, work product and expressions of interest to Assistant AD for Communications Jeremy Sharpe at jwsharpe@usf.edu. Also cc to: bmcgillis@usf.edu

 

Wonder what's the pay for something like this?

 

I'm not qualified, in terms of experience, for this job, but it sounds like a great gig.

 

Fear "prolific writer" is code for unpaid overtime. I interviewed with an MLB team many years ago about a salaried media relations position and they mentioned "work ethic" about 50 times in six hours.

 

Thankfully, my experience evolved from working in an athletic department to becoming a sports writer. Bet I'm one of 10,000 applicants though.

 

One assistant SID makes $36,565. If it's a public school, it takes 5 minutes to look up this stuff.

 

It's refreshing to see a D-I athletic department looking for a "journalist" rather than someone with either a) a marketing degree (masters preferred) or b) someone with at least 10 years of experience with corporate communications.

SID jobs used to be a natural jump for sports writers looking for something different. Not so much now.

 

https://employment.usf.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=162883

Salary range "negotiable". Seems like schools usually post a range. But with all they are asking you to do, and if they are looking for someone with 3-5 years experience, the pay should be decent.

 

Those I know who have made similar moves are all in the $45K-$55K range. All of those schools have more prominent athletic programs than USF, not that USF is bad by any means...