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Director of Football Player Personnel

Bowling Green State University

Salary: Depends on Qualifications

Job Type: Full-Time

Division: Intercollegiate Athletics

Opening Date: 06/04/2024

Location: Main Campus (BG), OH

Job Number: BGSU00457

Department: Intercollegiate Athletics

Closing: Continuous

Summary

The Director of Football Player Personnel will oversee the daily operation of the recruiting office, as directed by the Head Football Coach. This person will oversee all aspects of recruiting within the football program. This includes planning and coordinating both on- and off-campus recruiting visits, organizing the recruiting database and mailing system, and supervising student recruiting assistants. This position reports directly to the Head Football Coach.

Essential Functions

In-House Recruiting Coordinator for Football

• Responsible for initiating and maintaining effective correspondence with prospects, which includes: organizing written and electronic correspondence for coaches, producing weekly bulk mailings to all prospects on mailing list, producing specialty mailings to select top prospects sending specific mailings as directed by the coaching staff, preparing weekly notes for coaches to write and send, organizing mailing calendar with details of "what and when", archiving mailings by date and category for future use, emailing prospects weekly, maintaining the general recruiting email account, and directing social media, graphics, and video campaigns related to the recruitment of prospective student-athletes.

• Responsible for organizing recruiting travel and logistics related to official and unofficial visits, to include: scheduling meetings with coaches and prospective student-athletes, setting up appointments for coaches, speaking engagements at specific events, travel reservations for Head Football Coach and Coaching staff during recruiting period and for prospective student-athletes during visits.

• Organize official and unofficial visits of recruits on campus; Organize and coordinate recruit game-day logistics; coordinate meals, activities, seating, etc. for recruits during visits to BGSU.

• Coordinating on campus visits and events, which includes:

• Official Visits: coordinate all hotel and travel accommodations for the prospective student-athlete; Schedule meetings with professors on campus, athletic director, coaching staff, student-athlete and academic services; Create schedules for each prospective student-athlete along with itineraries for the visit; Coordinate all events throughout the visit.

• Unofficial Visits: Coordinate prospective student-athletes schedule with available coaches, Schedule meetings with coaching staff, send out invitations to all home football games, gather information about prospective student-athlete, give tour of campus and facilities, etc.

• Junior Days: Invite all prospective student-athletes who are juniors in high school to campus, schedule events throughout the day in consultation with coaching staff, coordinate coaches schedule with schedule of event, market event to prospective student-athletes and parents, etc. ?

• Signing Day Party: Work with sport administrator and development staff to schedule and coordinate signing day party with coaches, donors, athletic department, etc. Coordinate recruiting video and related collateral for event as directed.

• Coordinating logistics for recruiting events, which includes: paperwork,