Summer Intern - Stats & Information

Job Description

We Are…
Our content is used across multiple platforms -- television, digital media, radio, social, and much more. The Stats & Information Group's focal point - besides supplying all statistical information for pro and college sports - is to provide perspective and context around games, key sporting events, and breaking news.

Responsibilities:

A Day in the Life:

Do you have a passion for sports AND statistics? Do you love curling up at night with your textbooks, while keeping one eye on the statistical trends developing in the baseball or basketball game on TV?

Have you noticed the unique and differentiating insights, metrics, historical references, and high-quality scores and stats on ESPN platforms or across ESPN's various social feeds on Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, Snap, or YouTube? Are you the kind of fan who has filled spreadsheets with stats, used programming languages to manipulate data, or wondered if there were databases where you can search and sort for the data and context that enriches your fan experience? Do you search for patterns, trends, and insights in sports data in an effort to either quantify performance or predict future outcomes for players and teams?

You may work in one or a combination of the 3 primary areas within our group: Content, Stats & Analysis, and Sports Analytics.
• Content: research original content for use on digital media and show support, including graphics for TV, anchor lead-ins, and original pieces; provide live updates to talent in studio. Determine proper treatment of games & news stories on BottomLine by writing effective news headlines and ensuring 100 percent accuracy
• Stats & Analysis: manage and analyze real-time scoring and play-by-play data that powers every ESPN platform, and generate insightful content through the use of video tracking and vast statistical warehouses
• Sports Analytics: create and evaluate sports metrics, formulate algorithms, and ensure integration of that content across all platforms

Basic Qualifications:

What You Bring to the Role:
• Passion for sports and statistics including expert-level knowledge of players, teams, and analytic metrics
• Strong news/content awareness and judgment
• Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with a meticulous attention to detail in striving for 100 percent accuracy

Preferred Qualifications:
• Professional experience working with statistics in a digital, television, print-media, or sports information environment
• Experience developing sports content and storylines with a TV station, radio station, newspaper, or notable sports blog
• Experience in the Public Relations or Marketing Department of a college, minor league, or professional sports team
• Work on an academic project focused on sports journalism, sports business, or sports statistics
• Experience using social media in a business or news environment
• Experience with Excel and/or computer languages such as PSQL, R, Python, or related
• Ability to read and write in Spanish

Required Education
• Enrolled as a junior, senior or graduate student in an accredited college/university in the semester prior to the internship or graduated within the past 6 months.

Additional Information:

Internship Eligibility:
• Must be enrolled in a college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR graduated within the past 6 months OR currently participating in a Disney Professional Internship
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must not have completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or program
• Must possess unrestricted work authorization

Program Dates: The approximate dates are June 6 – August 12, 2022. Interns will work 40 hours per week and must be fully available throughout the internship including nights (almost exclusively), weekends and holidays.

Work Environment: This internship may be on site in Bristol, CT or remote. If in person, a limited amount of housing assistance will be provided for those who qualify. If remote, the internship will require a working, reliable internet connection as well as a quiet, dedicated work space.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzmj2n-216-73-216-165-42 in your application.