Liberty University
Campus Rec Communications Coordinator
🇺🇸
Lynchburg, VA
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$18 - $21
per Hour
💻
Communications
🗓️
July 21st, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Liberty University, Inc. is hiring a Campus Rec Communications Coordinator. This role involves overseeing communications operations for Campus Recreation, managing a team of part-time and student employees, coordinating facility reservations and events, and maintaining effective communication and scheduling practices. The coordinator also supports safety, risk reduction, and program reporting while ensuring adherence to policies and participating in trainings.
Highlights
- Directly supervise and develop a communications team of up to 6 student and part-time employees, including hiring, training, scheduling, and evaluation.
- Manage facility reservations and event scheduling for Campus Recreation using 25-Live and coordinate with Liberty Events.
- Handle daily operational tasks, respond to reservation requests, and manage departmental email and voicemail communication.
- Oversee event support including coordination of setup, teardown, and day-of details, often during evenings and weekends.
- Strong proficiency required in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and preferred experience with scheduling software like 25-Live.
- Requires a four-year degree in Sport Management, Recreation Management, Business, Communications, or related field; graduate degree progress is preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving ability, and organizational skills are essential.
- Physical demands include frequent travel on campus, extended periods of deskwork, and occasional lifting up to 10 pounds.
- The position offers full-time status with compensation ranging from $18.27 to $21.15 per hour and eligibility for comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance.
- Must possess a valid Virginia driver's license, acceptable DMV record, and liability insurance for travel requirements.
Campus Rec Communications Coordinator Full Description
The Campus Rec Coordinator is responsible to provide and oversee effective operations for respective Campus Recreation administration, programs, and/or facilities during set work hours. The Coordinator will provide direction to part time and/or student workers by supervising tasks, monitoring performance, and ensuring adherence to policies and procedures. They are responsible for maintaining safety, reducing risk, and executing job specific functions.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for directly overseeing a communications team of part time and student employees.
- This includes hiring, training, developing, scheduling, and evaluating.
- Assist with the management of facility reservations and scheduling of both internal and external events for various Campus Recreation facilities.
- Complete day-to-day operational tasks to ensure seamless function of communications and scheduling including responding to reservation requests, communicating with Liberty Events, avoiding scheduling oversights, and monitoring and editing 25-Live.
- Effectively communicate to team members, by meeting with facility staff, coordinating facility walkthroughs, coordinating day of details, and ensuring set up and tear down needs are met.
- Assist in the management of the departmental email and voicemail inboxes, responding to questions or request in a timely manner.
- Document, track and report program statistics and objective progress in the area of reservations.
- Frequently oversee and assist with events or operations during evening, nights, or weekend hours.
- Remain up to date on industry standards and performance benchmarks and ensure that Campus Recreation communications and scheduling remain effective and current.
- Perform all other tasks assigned by the Associate Director of Communications & Personnel.
- Attend all required Campus Recreation trainings and meetings.
- Works effectively as a team member, embracing and fostering LU's mission.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- This position is responsible for up to 6 student employees.
QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS
Required Qualifications:
- Four-year college degree from an accredited university in Sport Management, Recreation Management, Business, Communications or related field.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills, problem solving ability and attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications:
- Earned or progress towards graduate degree.
- Experience utilizing scheduling software, such as 25-Live
ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES ESSENTIAL TO THE FUNCTION OF THE JOB
Communication and Comprehension
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well articulated information.
- Ability to understand, speak, and write English in order to convey messages and correspond in an articulate and professional manner.
- Possess public communication skills that allow professional representation of Liberty University to a variety of business and community customers and associates.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Excellent computer skills.
Problem Solving
- Intuitively able to reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment in order to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature.
Physical and Sensory Abilities
- Frequently required to travel to local and campus locations.
- Frequently required to sit for extended periods to perform deskwork or type on a keyboard.
- Regularly required to hear and speak in order to effectively communicate orally.
- Occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb stairs to move about the building.
- Handle materials, reach overhead, kneel or stoop in order to conduct business.
- Regularly lift 10 or fewer pounds.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Work Environment
The working environment in which one will typically perform the essential functions of this position is a climate-controlled office setting. It is well lit and the noise level is moderate.
Driving Requirements
Use of one's personal vehicle (or LU vehicles) is required for travel in the performance of the essential functions of this position. Proof of a valid Virginia driver's license, an acceptable DMV record, and liability insurance is required.
Time TypeFull time
LocationOnsite
Pay Range
Compensation is determined based on factors such as qualifications, experience, education, skills, and certifications, along with University needs and external market conditions. Market benchmarks may be used, as appropriate, in combination with internal equity to ensure pay is fair and aligned with the broader compensation structure.
The position may also be eligible for comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance.
$18.27 - $21.15
The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University's hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the "religion" component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.
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