Gameday Staffer
The Copperheads are looking for interested and motivated students to work as Gameday Staffers this upcoming summer! Our Gameday Staffers are the backbone of the Copperheads during gameday. This position will require to not only assist with operations within Bob Wren Stadium, but also take on specific roles for each game. These include but ARE NOT limited to:
- Selling gameday & 50/50 tickets
- Ushering for our Baumholtz seats
- Supporting merchandise sales
- Assisting in the operations of in-game promotions
- Participate in fan and community engagement
- Donning the mascot suit, Homer
Media and Broadcast:
Color Commentary
- Experience calling a game or being on a tv broadcast.
- Knowledgeable about baseball or has played baseball.
- Energetic talker and fun personality
- Creative able to think outside the box
Camera Operator Stationary
- Has experience moving and using a broadcast camera
- Familiar with baseball.
- Creative and able to bring some ideas to the table
- Is adaptable to change, things can change fast and needs to be able to think on the fly
- Is able to take criticism and stay open minded
- Team player
Camera Operator On Field
- Has significant experience moving and using a broadcast camera
- Has experience filming sports preferably specifically filming baseball
- Creative and able to bring some ideas to the table
- Is adaptable to change, things can change fast and needs to be able to think on the fly
- Is able to take criticism and stay open minded
- Is capable of holding and moving a broadcast camera during a whole baseball game.
Broadcast Producer/Director
- Has experience producing or assistant producing a broadcast.
- Is well versed with baseball
- Is confident and decisive (you will need to make the decision when to switch cameras)
- Good at multitasking and able to think on their feet
- Is able to to take criticism and stay open minded
- Is able to give constructive criticism to better the broadcast (you are the outside eyes)
- Creative and able to bring some ideas to the table
Photographer
Photography:
- Capture engaging and professional photographs during games, and team events.
Content Creation:
- Edit and curate photos for use on the team's website, social media platforms, and promotional materials.
Event Coverage:
- Attend all home games and community events to document key moments.
Collaboration:
- Work with the team's marketing and communications staff to develop visual content strategies that enhance the team's brand and fan engagement.
Content Consolidation & Organization:
- Ensure all photographs are properly labeled, categorized, and stored in organized folders. This will facilitate easy access and sharing of images with team staff, media outlets, and sponsors
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive library of team photos, including player portraits, action shots, and event coverage. This library will serve as a central resource for marketing materials, social media, and press releases.
Director Roles:
Director of Community Outreach and Events:
- Build and maintain relationships with essential community partners
- Create a community outreach schedule
- Plan and execute community events before and during the season in collaboration with community partners
- Schedule staff for community events
- Serve as the point of contact for all community events
- Responsible for tracking attendance and impact of each event
- Have a passion for spreading positivity through sports and be willing to attend community events (often held on Saturday mornings during the spring semester).
Director of Stadium Operations:
- Responsible for general maintenance of Bob Wren Stadium (opening/closing gates and doors, and dealing with any issues that take place at the ballpark.)
- Assisting with sponsorships so each sponsor receives their request such as tabling or signage at sponsor games.
- Responsible for setting up and assigning roles for game day staffers, every game day staff should get experience at each job including mascot.
- Responsible for creating a safety plan for Bob Wren Stadium
- Have a positive "Can do" attitude and awareness that they will be the first and last person at the stadium on game nights.
Director of Marketing:
- Responsible for creating Copperhead-related artwork, graphics, videos, and edits to be used on game posters, flyers, broadcasts, websites, social media, etc.
- Proficient in Graphic Design
- Responsible for creating and executing marketing plans for community events, special nights, and others which include grassroot marketing.
- Lead game promotional efforts by setting up game day signage and banners throughout the community.
- Responsible for staffing and directing marketing campaigns/efforts
- Responsible for Team Merchandise items as well as communicating with suppliers and overlooking the online store.
Director of Social Media:
- Responsible for running and maintaining all of the Copperheads' social media accounts, (X,, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok)
- Responsible for creating a posting schedule with content content towards our fans, sponsors, and player engagement
- Willing to post multiple times a day and listen to feedback from others.
- Social media experience with a sports team is preferred.
- Optional travel with the team to cover road games, will need to cover road games and post updates.
Director of Media Relations:
- Responsible for all copperheads press releases (team announcements, preseason, stories and team preview, in-season, game recaps and a showcase stories once a week, and end-of-season recaps)
- Responsible for updating and maintaining the copperheads website.
- Responsible for creating the team yearly program to be sold at games.
- Design, develop, and maintain team program in collaboration with Director of Sponsorship and leadership team
- Passion for media relations/communications, athletic communication experiences preferred.
- Optional travel with the team to cover road games, to assist in recap stories for every game.
- Responsible for hiring Photographers, Videographers and other media staff determined necessary.
- Effectively build and maintain relationships with news organizations to grow community awareness of Copperheads brand and team updates.
Director of Broadcast:
- Responsible for setting up and broadcasting all of the copperheads games (Home)
- Assist with communications in writing stories for website and social media
- Responsible for creating broadcast notes/boards, and conducting interviews after games.
- Assist with statistics for Copperhead and the league website.
- Create a copperheads podcast series which will be available on many platforms and the copperheads website.
Director of Player Operations:
- Work closely with the Copperheads Coaching Staff /Players to ensure all preseason and in-season needs are met
- Serve as the primary point of contact in communicating team needs.
- Collect and maintain documents including player contracts, health and safety forms, etc.
- Verify players' information and statistics are correct in all organization’s marketing & web resources.
- Organize and run player move-in/move-out at the beginning and end of each season.
- Oversee all road games including transportation, lodging, meals, and media arrangements.
- Collaborate with the Executive Director to secure team transportation for all away games.
- Assist the visiting team with travel logistics as needed
- Organized team management skills and experience in team operations is preferred.
Director of Entertainment and Sponsorship Activation:
- Works closely with the leadership to plan an in season promotional plan. (game themes or work with sponsors for an in-game events they want to do)
- Responsible for creating and executing in-game promotions through the game.
- Managing the game day promotions - (work with MC and gathering participants for games)
- Create PA and MC scripts for all game days
- Ensure all sponsorship agreements are fulfilled throughout the season
- Creative, organized, community focused individual who wants to learn about sponsorship activation and marketing.
- Responsible for planning and executing theme nights throughout the season
Director of Sponsorship:
- Solicits and secure post game meals from local sponsors to feed both teams and copperheads staff after games.
- Assist leadership in generating new partnerships with local businesses.
- Lead staffer on post game meals (pickup and store post game meals, set up post game meals at end of each home game)
- Prospect new partners
- Responsible for the fulfillment of sponsor contracts
- Collaborate with Sponsorship Activation to fulfill sponsorship agreements.
Director of Ticket Sales:
- Collaborate with the leadership team to develop an preseason ticket plan and create ticket packages to sell
- Lead organization’s ticket sales efforts including season tickets, Grand Slam packages, etc.
- Delegate sales leads to sales team for key ticket packages.
- Organize and fulfill delivery of ticket packages to customers.
- Manage game day ticket sales
- Train gameday staff ticket sales software
- Competitive, team organized, organized and interested in ticket sales. Previous experience preferred.
Director of Group Ticket Sales:
- Work closely with the leadership team to develop an preseason ticket plan and create group ticket packages
- Serve as point of contact for all group ticket sales (groups,birthdays, etc.)
- Identify and engage new group leads
- Organize and fulfill delivery of ticket packages to customers.
- Manage game day ticket sales
- Train gameday staff ticket sales software
- Competitive, team organized, organized and interested in ticket sales. Previous experience preferred.
Director of Data Analytics:
- Work closely with the leadership team to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) in all organizations functions
- Collect and analyze data in accordance with KPIs
- Effectively communicate findings with other directors
- Design and implement data collection methods (preseason & in-season)
- Draft and maintain sales and community impact reports in collaboration with leadership team
- Competitive, team organized, organized and interested in analytics. Previous experience preferred.
Gameday Staffer
The Copperheads are looking for interested and motivated students to work as Gameday Staffers this upcoming summer! Our Gameday Staffers are the backbone of the Copperheads during gameday. This position will require to not only assist with operations within Bob Wren Stadium, but also take on specific roles for each game. These include but ARE NOT limited to:
- Selling gameday & 50/50 tickets
- Ushering for our Baumholtz seats
- Supporting merchandise sales
- Assisting in the operations of in-game promotions
- Participate in fan and community engagement
- Donning the mascot suit, Homer
Internship Requirements
- No experience required, but engagement encouraged
- Go-getter and positive attitude, while having a passion for the sports industry
Commitment:
- We strongly encourage you to enroll in or audit the Business of Baseball (SASM 4130) course during the spring 2025 semester. (Directors Only)
- Be available for weekly meetings on Fridays from 3-5 during the spring 2025 semester. (Directors Only)
- Be able to live and work in Athens, OH during the summer (Late May through Early August). (Housing Not Provided)
Payment:
- All directors will receive at least a $1000 stipend for their work done throughout the summer.
- Students will have the opportunity to work a part-time job in order to generate some extra income.
Application (Closes Sunday, November 3rd)
- Complete the application form.
- Upload your Resume
- Upload Recommendation Letter(s)
- Optional: Upload work sample
