Job title: Esports Communications Student Coordinator
Contact Person Email: gdmittle@uwaterloo.ca
References Required: No
Reports to: Greg Mittler, Coordinator Sports Clubs & Camps and Dan Ackerman, Communications & Game Day Coordinator
Job Description
The Esports Communications Student Coordinator maintains and supports all of the esports communications. This includes social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Discord and Youtube) and websites. The main responsibility of the position will be to consistently engage the esports community at the University of Waterloo and the greater community. This role will monitor the progression of our competitive esports teams and create content (images, videos, write ups, etc.) to tell their stories.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities of Position
- Responsible for maintaining all of the esports based social channels
- Required to complete one post following all OPSE matches, and all other leagues our teams play in, detailing the scores for each match
- Will analyze game footage in order to get highlight clips
- Post on the social media channels with direct links to broadcasts whenever one of the Warriors esports teams is being broadcasted
- Perform a weekly analytics report detailing the engagements and impressions on each post
- Responsible for staying up to date with the players writing in-depth stories on the star players to be posted on the Warriors website
Qualifications:
- 4 months experience with marketing/communications related positions
- 4 months experience with photoshop software such as Adobe photoshop, Canva, Pixlr, Spark etc.
- 4 months experience with video editing software such as Adobe Premiere, Vegas, Final Cut
- A passion for gaming
- General familiarity for current esports (especially Overwatch, League of Legends, and Rocket League)
- Creative thinker
- Effective communicator
- In good academic standing
Times and Hours of Work
- Employment shall commence on 10/26/2020 up to and including 12/20/2020. This is subject to change with advanced notice
- For the period of your employment as specified above the hours are flexible but must abide by the deadlines provided
- This position will be paid for 3 hours of work per week, it is the responsibility of those employed to ensure their work does not exceed or fall short of 3 hours per week
 Expectations, Conduct and Behaviour
- While employed by Athletics and Recreation, the behaviour of all staff members not only reflects upon the incumbent, it also reflects upon Athletics and Recreation, the University of Waterloo, and its sponsors. It is therefore expected that all Staff, act responsibly using good judgement, common sense and courtesy at all times. Professional ethic in the Athletics and Recreation workplace is a must
- Athletics and Recreation enforces strict confidentiality. Any Staff who breaches confidentiality is subject to immediate termination of employment
- All Athletics and Recreation Staff must comply with the guidelines and code as defined in the Athletics and Recreation policy manual. A violation of policy may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination of employment
- At all times, Athletics and Recreation staff will respect their fellow workers, as well as all University of Waterloo’s faculty and staff
- All University of Waterloo employees are bound to the applicable University of Waterloo policies, procedures and guidelines [http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/Policies_alpha.html]
Salary
$15 / hour
 Required Application Materials:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Example of publicly available social media that you managed or projects created using photoshop or video editing
