Andrew Kauffman
Marketing/Communications Professional & Storyteller

Special Olympics Missouri

Marketing and Communications Director

Jefferson City, Mo., April 2022-Present​

• Direct marketing and communications statewide for entire organization with 12,491 athletes in six regions.

• Grow social media engagement, reach and impressions, showing a 319% increase in first year in this position.

• Communicate with local media outlets and write news releases.

• Craft and execute marketing campaigns for statewide fundraising and program events.

• Manage organization website, somo.org, which had 364,000 page views last year.

• Serve on 6-person administrative council.

• Lead a 3+ person team and consistently recruit interns.

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Missouri School of Journalism

Adjunct Professor

Columbia, Mo., August 2019-Present​​

• Create and teach journalism and strategic communications courses, which include storytelling and basics of filming and editing a multimedia story, to 15+ undergraduate and graduate students, while assigning and grading projects.

• Mentor and advise journalism students entering the journalism and strategic communications field.

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KMIZ-TV

Sports Director

Columbia, Mo., March 2017-April 2022

• Manage the KMIZ/KQFX sports department

• Designated assignments, created department goals, monitored progress, managed and mentored 4+ direct reports.

• Developed, shot, wrote, voiced, and edited day-turn and enterprise sports stories and posted to abc17news.com.

• Anchored, crafted and produced nightly sportscasts and weekly half-hour sports show, SportsZone, that consistently ranked #1 in the market during my tenure.

• Gained over 10,000 subscribers on YouTube; top video garnered over 5 million views and 800+ comments.

KOMU-TV

Reporter/Anchor/Host/Producer/Sports Digital Producer

Columbia, Mo., January 2012-May 2015​

• Produced, edited and anchored nightly newscasts.

• Collaborated with fellow coworker to enhance and transform weekly sports program, Opening Drive.

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