Recruiting Analyst
Irish Breakdown is hiring a recruiting analyst to cover Notre Dame football recruiting. This is a salaried, full-time position that is set to begin on January 1.
Irish Breakdown is looking for someone that is willing to work hard, create top-notch content that meets the IB standard, develop strong relationships and work with me to build IB into the premier go-to place for Notre Dame football recruiting coverage.
Please provide accurate information and answer the written questions below.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Cover Notre Dame football recruiting on a daily basis
- Produce at least two written content features per day
- Engage with Irish Breakdown subscribers on the message board
- Host a weekly recruiting podcast on YouTube that includes analysis of latest news and analysis, guest interviews and Q&A with Irish Breakdown subscribers and listeners
- Become extremely knowledge about the Notre Dame recruiting board in all classes, which includes:
- Where Notre Dame stands with prospects
- Notre Dame's recruiting priorities and goals in the class
- Having a strong feel for Notre Dame's recruiting strategy
- Develop a list of priorities for all the prospects on the Notre Dame board
- Contact Notre Dame football prospects with the purpose of establishing a strong connection and generating content features
- Write stories about Notre Dame prospects to include the following topics:
- The latest in their recruitment, focusing primarily on Notre Dame
- The prospect's relationship with the Notre Dame staff or other prospects/players
- The prospect's off-the-field character or academic work and how it relates to Notre Dame
- The prospect's talent as a player by interviewing his coach, opposing coaches or other analysts
- Any other personal interest stories about Notre Dame prospects
- Build relationships with prospects in hopes of gaining their trust
- We will always respect their privacy and information they provide us. If we establish trust it will result in us being able to produce top-notch content
- This should help us know when prospects are going to commit
- Establish a connection with parents, guardians and/or coaches of top prospects on the Notre Dame board for the same reasons that were just discussed about prospects
- Establish a connection with Notre Dame coaches and recruiting analysts
- Maintain a weekly "hot board" that will give the latest trends on Notre Dame recruiting for all classes
- Develop and produce other weekly recruiting features both in-season and during the off-season
- Establish weekly “updates” features on the message board that includes the latest scoop on Notre Dame recruiting
- Write commitment preview stories when we know when a prospect is going to commit without giving away the prospects intentions
- Produce post-commitment features
- Produce “big picture” features about the state of Notre Dame recruiting
- Keep the prospects list updated on a regular basis
- Travel to high school football games of Notre Dame prospects and produce content before, during and after those visits
- Travel to national events such as combines and all-star games with the expectation of producing content related to Notre Dame prospects
- Contribute to Irish Breakdown Recruiting Magazine
- Contribute to Irish Breakdown Season Preview Magazine
- Add all written stories in the prospect’s IB page upon publication
- Be a guest on WSBT Sportsbeat to discuss the latest with Notre Dame recruiting
- Keep Irish Breakdown's publisher up to speed on all the latest recruiting news