The Senior Manager, Football Communications will strategize and promote key football themes to focus media attention on the sport, communicate with internal and external stakeholders and oversee the creation and distribution of innovative and captivating content to drive on-field narratives. This role will also play a leading role in media operations at NFL events, maintaining the league’s reputation as best-in-class.

Responsibilities:

• Be a forward-thinking, innovative strategic football communicator, creating compelling content to drive media interest in the game, domestically and internationally.
• Expand current relationships with key football media agenda-setters while developing new ones with a wide range of content creators, ensuring key messaging about the game reaches the broadest possible audience.
• Editorial responsibilities related to football content include writing, editing, fact-checking and proofing all content during the season, including on all NFL gamedays.
• Lead media operations activities and the media accreditation process for key NFL events, including the Super Bowl, Combine, Draft and international games.
• Serve as a key contact for all 32 NFL clubs, with expert knowledge of the league’s media access and injury report policies.
• Coordinate with club communications staffs on media related activities around NFL tentpole events, including player media availabilities, league-related initiatives and event day operations.
• Oversee the management, development and testing of SEMS (Special Events Management System), the league’s credential portal, and league’s media website, media.nfl.com.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a Communications or related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience with a league, club or in a collegiate athletic communications role
• People management experience
• Innovative and strategic…ability to generate new ideas
• Relationship-building skills
• Writing and editing skills
• Strong grammatical knowledge
• Critical thinking skills

Other Key Attributes / Talent Characteristics:

• Works well with others
• Remains calm in the face of adversity
• A problem solver
• Motivates others to succeed and innovate
• Promotes the growth of others

Salary / Pay Range

This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the NFL believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job in the location(s) specified. The NFL expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the NFL consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range. 

Terms / Expected Hours of Work

• Five days onsite at our League office in NYC.