Seasonal Assistant, Communications Skyhawks

This is a Full Time Job

Who are you:
An enthusiastic lover of sports, live entertainment, and people. You have true passion for engaging in meaningful interactions and creating memorable experiences for all guests. You strive to be helpful, engaging, and knowledgeable of all things Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena. You enjoy being a part of an exciting and dynamic group, and you're committed to continuously enhancing the productivity and effectiveness of your team. Lastly, you enjoy working hard and celebrating hard, and you'd be shocked if guests weren't positively impacted by their interactions with you.

What the College Park Skyhawks Communications Seasonal Assistant will be responsible for:
• Create and distribute single-game and season long credentials, along with food vouchers, for media, TV crew, entertainment, stats crew, agents, and guests for all Skyhawks home games.
• Hand out media credentials at the media entrance beginning 3 hours prior to tip-off
• Distribute box scores to Skyhawks bench and media during timeouts, halftime and postgame
• Facilitate halftime and postgame player walk offs for interviews with TV and arena entertainment
• Help gather players for postgame press conference with media
• Assist PR Coordinator with creation of game notes, postgame recaps, and additional publications
• Other duties as assigned

What the College Park Skyhawks Communications Seasonal Assistant needs to have:
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule including game days/nights, holidays, and weekends and be on-call as necessary based on the changing priorities of the department
• Junior, Senior or graduate level college students
• Academic and/or work experiences related to one or more of the following: Journalism, Communications, Sports Management or Public Relations
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office products and other related computer skills required
• Strong organizational skills, time management skills and attention to detail required
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/projects
• Ability to work independently without supervision, be self-directed and demonstrate initiative
• Strong team synergy skills and ability to work collaboratively with others whom you have no direct authority over
• Excellent ability to establish rapport with others and ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changes

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

If this opportunity looks exciting to you, please complete the application process. Go Hawks!