Greater Los Angeles Prep Football Recruiting Analyst/Journalist

Date Posted: October 23, 2015

Position: Football Recruiting Analyst/Journalist
Location: Greater Los Angeles Area (work remotely)
Salary: $25,000. Bonuses available based on performance and analytics
Travel: Some travel will be expected upon need
Website: www.Youth1.com

To apply, email apopadines@youth1.com and please reference SO. CAL RECRUITING ANALYST in your subject

Description:

Based in New Jersey, just 30 minutes from New York City, Youth1 Media, LLC. (Youth1.com) is the authority on youth sports. Focusing on athletes from the 6th-8th grade, we unite the passionate sports community through exclusive news, rankings and developing national lists of prospects to watch.

Youth1 Media, LLC. (Youth1.com) is looking to fill an opening for a recruiting analysts to serve as the authority on the top youth football players in the great Los Angeles area. The position will serve as the lead analyst for the region and assistant for National coverage.

Duties:

Become ingrained in the youth football community in your immediate region by building relationships with key coaches, organizations, players and parents via in-person and social media efforts

Attend numerous games, combines, camps and be able to identify top players. Then, be able to conduct interviews with them and obtain contact/social media information. *Note: these will fall on weekends during the regular season and camp season*

Produce several pieces of content daily, while mapping out several weeks in advance. Be flexible enough to take on a major news story if it takes precedence

Take direction and collaborate with National Scouting Director to provide all appropriate elements for stories (i.e. photos, videos and graphics). Capture basic photos and video as needed while in the field.

Promote personal brand, the brands of colleagues and the Youth1 brand to increase Youth1 membership and traffic

Willingness to travel to larger national events as needed as part of the entire analyst team

Skills and Knowledge:

Self starter with the ability to identify football talent and scout a player’s ability based off what you see, not what other people say. Athletes should be players who project to be elite level high school players and/or potential college athletes

Exceptional core journalism skills and strong knowledge of football terminology

Must be highly motivated and have the desire to become THE GUY in their region for youth football. This comes with the quality and quantity of content in addition to getting your face out there in the football community

Ability to react to changing the situations on the fly and being resourceful

Extraordinary social media skills are a must have (Instagram, facebook, twitter). A large majority of communication and fan engagement will be done on digital platforms in the public space

Effective communication and time management skills; work collaboratively within a cross-functional environment

Qualifications:

Bachelor's in Communication, Journalism or equivalent in experience and education. Recent graduate - 3 years of covering prep sports and developing a personal brand and fan base. Experience of covering camps or combines a big plus. Knowledge of photoshop and Microsoft Office Suite is a must. Must be eternally hungry for doing better and producing more.

 

A one bedroom apartment in LA costs, on average, $1,928 per month.

At $25,000 per year, you'd make $2,083 per month. Before taxes.

So congrats! You're hired! And homeless!

 

SoloFlyer, who cares about an apartment, it's all about those analytics...

 

$25,000 a year to write about 11-year-old little league football. I think I would sooner join the Westboro Baptist Church.

 

It's obvious from that lengthy, detailed job posting that they want a superbly talented media professional.

And then they want to pay that superbly talented media professional $12 an hour.

 

$25K isn't "THE GUY" money. It's "FUCK OFF" money.

 

Artist's rendering of Steak covering youth football.

 

This has to be trolling.

 

Come on, people! This is how you pull yourself up by your bootstraps!

 

That website makes me laugh and cry.

 

So you won't be commenting on the Travis Gray making his way up the 2020 rankings thread?

 

This isn't a Los Angeles Prep Football Recruiting Analyst/Journalist job. It's a Pre-Prep job.

As such, how many people here would ever do it? Who would do it at all, especially as an actual job, I mean? Not even parents, I wouldn't think.

Who are they going to get for it? This proves the absurdity of just how extensive recruiting news has become.