Manager of Communications and Awards

Reports To: Director of Communications

Mission: Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association promotes women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport of women's basketball and to foster and promote the development of the game of basketball as a sport for women and girls.

Scope: Provide communications support to the Director of Communications including maintenance of social media outlets and e-newsletter, writing for Coaching Women’s Basketball magazine and press releases. Assist in the development, maintenance, evaluation and enhancement of all programs and services that satisfy the WBCA Awards Program, Elections Process and committees.

Responsibilities: Communications (50%)

1.Work with the Director of Communications on all assigned WBCA publications content, including feature stories for Coaching Women’s Basketball magazine.

3.Maintain all social networking accounts for the WBCA and “Shootaround” including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Implement strategy to increase membership participation in all social networking sites.

3.In conjunction with Manager of Multimedia, will be responsible for bi-weekly e-newsletter that is distributed to WBCA membership. This includes writing content, gathering stories, videos, plays, etc.

4.Assist with all communications and public relations efforts surrounding the NCAA Women’s Final Four and the WBCA National Convention.

5.Manage the “Shootaround with Beth & Debbie™” weekly podcast, including reminders, promotions, live shows, etc.

6.Responsible for updating all Award and Election Web site pages and drafting press releases for Awards and Elections.

7.Work with Manager of Multimedia on any promotional materials for Awards, Elections and “Shootaround.” Assist department with design, ideation, photo re-sizing, etc. as needed.

8.Assist in the editing of all WBCA publications.

9.Work with Membership Department to implement an incentive plan to increase membership participation in Awards and Elections.

10.Work with communications department to implement new Web site components to increase traffic and to increase member benefits.

11.Assist in updating the media outreach lists.

12.Oversee the collection of necessary photos and bios for award winners.

13.During the collegiate season, manage the Division II Coaches’ poll and the collection of weekly State Farm Wade Trophy statistics.

14.Responsible for looking up Daily Updates at the start of each work day. This includes finding women’s basketball stories from all divisions, reporting these stories to WBCA staff and posting on Web site.

Awards Program & Elections Process (40%)

1.Responsible for maintaining all aspects of the WBCA Awards Program. This includes posting of online award nomination forms, communicating awards process to the WBCA membership, tracking all nominations, disseminating nominations to appropriate committees, coordinating all committee conference calls and guiding them through the selection process, initiate the congratulatory process and announcement and oversee the ordering of all awards.

2.Responsible for managing all aspects of the WBCA Elections Process. This includes soliciting committee members for appointments and posting committee openings. In addition, this position will post all committee openings on the WBCA Web site in March and collect all nominations via e-mail. Following the election process all ballots will be calculated, winners notified and converted to new committee members in database.

3.Oversee and manage the WBCA Awards Program responsibilities of the communications and awards intern. This includes travel arrangements for award winners (airfare, lodging, transportation, itineraries and guests), press releases and recognition.

4.Assist all committee members including email reminders of timelines, taking notes and sending agendas and meeting notes from conference calls.

5.Maintain the WBCA Awards Program manual and the WBCA Elections Process manual.

6.Coordinate with WBCA programmers to make ongoing enhancements to the award and election
sections of the database.

7.Manage the holding rooms for all awards banquets during the national convention.

8.Communicate with the NCAA to get all updates for institutional re-alignments and update database accordingly. Work with NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA offices to get all Division I, II and III banquet information; in addition, communicate with NAIA and NJCAA offices for its banquet information.

9.Establish an awards timeline for the upcoming fiscal year.

10.Oversee and manage the WBCA Academic Top 25 Honor Roll.

11.Manage the Awards and Elections and State Farm Coaches’ All-America Team budgets.

Administrative Duties (10%)

1.Other duties deemed necessary by Director of Communications and/or COO


Annual Salary: $30,000

*Resume, cover letter, references and 3 writing samples are required.

Contact Name: Daniella Trujillo

Job Title: Manager of Events & Office Administration

Email: dtrujillo@wbca.org

Phone: no phone calls please  

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