Head of Communications – Media Relations

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎙️ Public Relations (PR)

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USA Volleyball

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1928

⚽ Sports

📚 Education

Sports • Education

USA Volleyball is the national governing body for the sport of volleyball in the United States. They oversee various forms of the sport, including indoor, beach, and sitting volleyball, across different age groups and skill levels. The organization manages national teams, organizes tournaments, and offers educational and development programs for coaches, athletes, and officials. USA Volleyball is committed to promoting the sport through training, competition, and events leading up to international competitions such as the Olympics and Paralympics. They emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion in their operations.

📋 Description

• Lead USA Volleyball’s external and internal communications, media relations, executive communications, and crisis communications • Develop and execute a proactive communications strategy aligned with organizational priorities, national team activities, major events, and key milestones • Maintain a multiyear communications roadmap and 12-month calendar covering competitions, athlete milestones, announcements, WVWC, and LA28 • Establish and maintain organizational messages, positioning statements, talking points, and supporting materials • Advise the CEO and senior leadership on communications opportunities, stakeholder considerations, and implications of organizational decisions • Build and lead a proactive media relations program generating coverage of USA Volleyball, national teams, athletes, events, programs, and leadership • Cultivate relationships with volleyball, sports, Olympic and Paralympic, lifestyle, and business media • Identify and pitch stories, athlete profiles, features, interviews, opinion pieces, and other publicity opportunities • Draft and oversee press releases, media advisories, press kits, fact sheets, biographies, and announcement materials • Serve as central media contact, coordinating responses and access to spokespeople • Arrange interviews, media briefings, and executive background conversations • Provide crisis communications counsel, monitor media and emerging issues, and coordinate statements and responses • Develop executive visibility strategy and prepare executives for interviews, presentations, town halls, speaking engagements, and appearances • Lead organization-wide internal communications and manage CEO town hall communications • Partner with HR and functional leaders on sensitive employee communications and change-management messaging • Lead media relations planning and operations for designated USA Volleyball events, including press access and on-site support • Develop and manage the communications budget and external resources • Implement media monitoring, contact management, inquiry tracking, planning, and reporting processes • Produce reporting assessing coverage quality, priority-audience relevance, key-message inclusion, and progress against objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Significant progressive experience in strategic communications, public relations, or media relations, including senior-level responsibility for communications strategy and execution • Demonstrated success developing proactive media programs and securing substantive coverage across relevant sports, national, business, or consumer outlets • Experience advising senior executives and handling sensitive, high-profile, or rapidly evolving issues • Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to translate complex or sensitive information into clear, accurate, audience-appropriate communications • Experience preparing executives and other spokespeople for interviews, public appearances, and challenging questions • Strong relationships with journalists and demonstrated ability to build credibility with new media contacts • Experience leading internal communications and supporting organizational change • Ability to manage budgets, external resources, competing priorities, and deadline-driven work • Sound judgment, discretion, and commitment to accuracy and confidentiality • Experience in sports, a national governing body, a membership organization, or another highly visible, stakeholder-intensive environment preferred • Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • Must successfully pass a USAV background screen prior to hire date • Must complete SafeSport training within two weeks of hire date and keep current as a condition of continued employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off—accrue 10 hours each pay period, up to a maximum cap of 23 days • Up to 15.5 paid holidays per year • 403B retirement plan with employer match up to 8% • Health benefits (medical, dental, vision) with no monthly premiums deducted for employee-only health benefit • Opt-out rebate for employees waiving USAV medical coverage with qualified group health plan coverage • Medical wellness program—earn up to $1000/year for completing health activities • Paid parental leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Employer-paid life and AD&D insurance • Social and Wellness Committees • Discounts on sponsored vendor apparel (Mizuno)

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