Sports Director
Core
Lead the station's sports product across broadcast, streaming, digital, and social platforms, setting editorial vision and hosting a daily streaming show.
Role type
Sports Director (On-Air Host & Editor)
Builds
Daily streaming sports show, mobile-first and vertical video content, website and app articles, social media posts.
Domain
Local News / Sports Broadcasting
Required skills
Sports reporting and anchoring, on-camera presence, writing and editing, shooting and editing video, social media management, source development, editorial judgment, time management, physical ability to lift equipment.
Preferred skills
Journalism or Communications degree, demonstrated social media following, portfolio of original mobile content.
Technologies
Field cameras, nonlinear editing tools, social media platforms, mobile devices.
Responsibilities
Set editorial direction for sports coverage across all platforms; host and produce a daily streaming sports show; cover college and high school sports; break news through independent reporting; shoot, write, edit, and voice own content; create mobile-first and vertical video; manage overlapping seasons and breaking news; represent the station in the community.