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  • Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
    Administration
    Alcorn State University

     





















     
    The incumbent administers and promotes all intercollegiate athletic programs and events with excellence to ensure they are conducted in a manner consistent with the philosophy and mission of Alcorn State University, adhering to the highest institutional, IHL, SWAC, and NCAA Division I standards.
     

    Knowledge Skills and Abilities





      • Knowledge of NCAA and SWAC rules and regulations and university policies and procedures

      • Skilled and experienced major fundraiser, revenue generator, and donor developer

      • Strong business management and financial management skills

      • Excellent marketing and communication skills, verbal, written and interpersonal

      • Dynamic strategic planning, master planning, and decision-making skills

      • Ability to leverage the unique opportunities for growth and advancement of the university athletics enterprise

      • Adept at strategically adjusting to the ever-changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics

      • Good relationship building skills

      • Knowledge of intercollegiate athletics compliance

      • Ability to manage conflict appropriately and decisively

      • Ability to bring internal and external stakeholders together toward a common goal




     

    PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:


    • Ability to sit at a workstation for extended periods

    • Occasional ability to lift, carry and put away items weighing up to 25 pounds

    • Normal physical mobility, which includes movement from place to place on the job, taking distance and speed into account

    • Normal physical agility, which includes ability to maneuver body while in place

    • Normal physical strength to handle routine office materials and tools

    • Normal dexterity of hands and fingers

    • Normal coordination, including eye-hand, hand-foot

    • Normal endurance
     

     


    Essential Job Functions



    • Promotes an atmosphere of institutional control inclusive of monitoring activities and staff to ensure expectations for institutional control over coaches, athletics personnel and student athletes are met

    • Demonstrates familiarity with, adherence to, and enforcement of NCAA, SWAC, IHL, institutional policies and regulations, while leading by example

    • Emphasizes academic success as well as competitive athletics

    • Monitors continuously all aspects of intercollegiate activities to ensure conformance with expectations of NCAA, SWAC, IHL, institutional, legal and ethical rules and report intercollegiate athletics matters; inclusive of (suspected) improprieties, violations, or infractions; and, to forthrightly report the same to the President/IEO and/or designee

    • Oversees the development and implementation of the athletics budget

    • Markets athletic programs to internal and external constituencies

    • Develops and implements effective fundraising strategies and activities

    • Works closely with the Office of Institutional Advancement and other entities to ensure community, corporate and philanthropic support of the Athletics programs

    • Engages actively with community and civic groups that promote the University and its athletics program

    • Ensures the highest level of sports programming for all sports

    • Works closely with key university personnel and serves as Chief Administrative Officer for Athletics

    • Develops, implements, monitors, assesses and evaluates the strategic plan to ensure institutional effectiveness

    • Supervises and promotes the academic enhancement programs towards acceptable, initial and continuing eligibility of student-athletes and their continued academic performance

    • Ensures continuous compliance with the NCAA Academic Performance Program (APP), Academic Performance Rates (APR) and Graduate Success Rates (GSR)

    • Advocates for academic and athletic success of student-athletes

    • Maintains a personal commitment to the highest standards of academic integrity and instills the same among coaches, staff and student athletes

    • Communicates effectively and openly with coaches, university administrators and key stakeholders

    • Oversees all home athletic contests, including the preparation of facilities, equipment, officials and all personnel involved with the athletic event

    • Other related duties, as assigned.
     

    Qualifications



    • Five (5) years with progressive leadership growth in NCAA Division I athletics administration

    • Experience in Division I athletics marketing and fundraising preferred


 


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