Sarah Rhodes

Sarah Rhodes

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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I’m a well-versed cross-cultural leader from working throughout Southeast Asia…

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  • Hi Sydney, I'm home.

    Hi Sydney, I'm home.

    Where do you live? Are you back, back? For the past 18 months i've spent most of my time in Southeast Asia, primarily…

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  • Sustainability - this time it's personal

    Sustainability - this time it's personal

    When I was asked to be a panelist for ACU and StartSomeGood's Social Enterprise Design Course and talk about personal…

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Contributions

Activity

Experience

  • Plastic Free Southeast Asia Graphic
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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Siem Reap, Cambodia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Siem Reap

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    Siem Reap

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Adelaide, Australia

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    Adelaide, Australia

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    Adelaide, Australia

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    Adelaide, Australia

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    London, United Kingdom

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    South Australia, Australia

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    Glenelg, South Australia

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    Modbury, South Australia

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Travel Massive Graphic

    Sydney Chapter Lead

    Travel Massive

    - Present 1 month

    For over a decade, the Travel Massive community has connected thousands of tourism professionals, travel media, creators and startups from around the world to meet, connect and share ideas — to help shape the future of travel!

    The Travel Massive community is open to everyone who cares about the future of travel — from tourism professionals, creators, entrepreneurs and travel enthusiasts who believe that travel can do good things for people, culture, and our planet.

    We also welcome…

    For over a decade, the Travel Massive community has connected thousands of tourism professionals, travel media, creators and startups from around the world to meet, connect and share ideas — to help shape the future of travel!

    The Travel Massive community is open to everyone who cares about the future of travel — from tourism professionals, creators, entrepreneurs and travel enthusiasts who believe that travel can do good things for people, culture, and our planet.

    We also welcome students studying tourism (and related courses), and part-time professionals who are looking to switch careers to the tourism and travel industry.

    We support Responsible Tourism, Accessible Travel and Diversity, and actively promote initiatives in our network that are addressing these values.

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    Awards Judge

    NSW Tourism Association

    - Present 1 year 6 months

    Environment

    Brief entrants on what Responsible and Sustainable Tourism is and what is expected of them to demonstrate and excel in this category of the awards criteria.
    Review and mark entrants across core criteria, liaise with and reach consensus on voting with other judges.
    Attend and represent NSW Tourism Awards at local industry events.

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    Climate Action Committee Member

    Mosman Council

    - 2 years 5 months

    Environment

    A resident and expert advisory group to the council on their climate and environment related activities in the community.

  • United Nations Association of Australia NSW (UNAA NSW) Graphic

    Digital Marketing & Website Officer (casual)

    United Nations Association of Australia NSW (UNAA NSW)

    - 2 years

    Advise on best digital practices (including Social Media) and work with relevant team members when required.
    Assist UNAA NSW with content auditing, content writing, mobile optimisation etc for our website launch. This will be in the first half of 2021 and span over 3 months.
    Assist with website management on an adhoc basis.
    Drive membership signups and donations on the website.
    Manage SEO and set up, monitor, and report on Google Analytics.

  • The Climate Reality Project Graphic

    climate reality leader

    The Climate Reality Project

    - Present 10 years 7 months

    Environment

    The Climate Reality Project is dedicated to unleashing a global cultural movement demanding action on the climate crisis.

  • Marketing Strategist

    ConCERT Cambodia

    - 6 months

    Human Rights

    Coordinating marketing activities and providing guidance to marketing approach. Website support and establishing new websites for ConCERT and their community project Treak Community Centre. I'm also updating their newsletter system for better efficiencies in their marketing communications.

  • Secretary

    ABCs and Rice Australia Inc

    - 1 year 11 months

    Education

    ABCs and Rice Australia Inc work in collaboration with ABCs and Rice, Cambodia to relieve poverty and achieve sustainable development outcomes for Cambodian families and communities.

    The incorporation establish a relief fund to assist with the implementation of programs and strategies for poverty relief and sustainable development outcomes for Cambodian families and communities.

    My role as secretary involved coordinating committee meetings, recruiting new committee members…

    ABCs and Rice Australia Inc work in collaboration with ABCs and Rice, Cambodia to relieve poverty and achieve sustainable development outcomes for Cambodian families and communities.

    The incorporation establish a relief fund to assist with the implementation of programs and strategies for poverty relief and sustainable development outcomes for Cambodian families and communities.

    My role as secretary involved coordinating committee meetings, recruiting new committee members, instigating and implementing fundraising activities, generating agendas, meeting minutes and the Annual Report.

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    Volunteer - food rescuer

    OzHarvest

    - 1 year 11 months

    Environment

    I started volunteering with OzHarvest in Adelaide as a food rescuer. I was part of a team who visit the Adelaide Central Market each week to take left over food to charities in need of food.
    Since moving to Sydney, I help support the Cooking for a Cause program that gets groups of people together to cook produce salvaged from markets and restaurants and is then distributed to various missions and organisations to feed underprivileged Australians.

  • Volunteer

    The Thin Green Line Foundation

    - 3 years

    Environment

    Ad hoc assistance, at the moment website updates. www.thingreenline.org.au

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    ABCs and Rice

    - 2 years 1 month

    Education

    Project managing the development of a new website for the school that was kindly donated by staff from Microsoft. Maintaining content on the website until an appropriate staff member can be trained to take over.
    I also assist with events and other volunteer duties as required.

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    Competitor support at Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

    Octagon

    - 2 years 2 months

    Animal Welfare

    Volunteer 2011, 2012, 2013 for the Mark Webber Challenge. A multi sport event that runs for 5 consecutive days with over 80 competitors. Proceeds from the event go to the Mark Webber Foundation and for the past 3 years of this event, that has supported Save the Tassie Devils Foundation.

Publications

  • Travel and Tour Guide

    Gateway Publications

    A travel guide magazine for Cambodia featuring all provinces and a special in depth section on the 44 temples of Angkor following the 25 year anniversary of Angkor as a World Heritage Site in December 2017. The best highlights of each temple, including Khmer ancient history, folk tales and how to explore the Angkor site.

    See publication
  • Culinary and Cuisine Cambodia magazine

    Gateway Publications

    Cambodia focussed foodie magazine with tips for professionals and novices and cooking enthusiasts; topics on nutrition, healthy living and plastic free lifestyle.

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Projects

  • UNAA (NSW) website

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    Project managed and coordinated content for a stand alone website for the UN Association of Australia NSW branch.

    Other creators
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  • Plastic Free July Cambodia

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    Initiating Plastic Free July in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Sharing information and education relating to the environment, locally and in relation to global warming. Working with local businesses, NGOs and schools to have meaningful discussions about what we can do to reduce our impact on the earth.
    2018 was the fourth Plastic Free July Challenge in Cambodia with more and more organisations and individuals joining and learning about plastic free living habits.

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  • Refill Not Landfill Southern Laos

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    Stakeholder engagement project to leverage plastic reduction initiatives to support and enhance Southern Laos as a tourism destination.

  • Game on Gold Coast blog site

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    With Gold Coast as the host of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, we helped to create a site that will tell the stories of the people of the Gold Coast.

    Other creators
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  • Room 753 digital influencer project

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    Room 753 was a project that brought popular digital influencers from all over the globe to Queensland, Australia. Travellers are influenced by friends and online content more than ever and nomadic travel writers, bloggers, videographers and photographers provide inspiring content. Tourism and Events Queensland took this opportunity to show the travel world how best to work with digital influencers to produce some incredible content as well as more than 25 life-long advocates for…

    Room 753 was a project that brought popular digital influencers from all over the globe to Queensland, Australia. Travellers are influenced by friends and online content more than ever and nomadic travel writers, bloggers, videographers and photographers provide inspiring content. Tourism and Events Queensland took this opportunity to show the travel world how best to work with digital influencers to produce some incredible content as well as more than 25 life-long advocates for Queensland.
    An immensely dedicated team was required to pull this off; 22 bespoke travel itineraries over a 6 month period each one finishing in a week long stay in a full comfort-customised room at Peppers Broadbeach!

    Other creators
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  • SATC iPhone Update

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    The South Australia Tourism Comission (SATC) iPhone Application Update is a redesign and upgrade of technologies used in the current TravelSA App to enhance usability, ensure currency of the app functionality and update the branding and refresh the visual appearance of the app to become ExploreSA.

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  • La Boheme website

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    Re design website to move from flash site. Enable ticketing integration and easy admin interface for staff to update the site.

    Other creators
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  • tourism.sa.gov.au

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    Redevelopment of corporate website for SATC. Whole of organisation, PR were the key stakeholder and now oversee content of the site. All staff required consultation and training in CMS to maintain future content on the website. Integration of newsletter signup forms was an important part of this project.

    Other creators
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  • southaustralia.com international websites

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    Production, translation, and content management of 10 new international variations of http://www.southaustralia.com - languages & geographic specific sites included: UK, US, NZ, Singapore, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese & Traditional Chinese websites.

    Other creators
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  • southaustralia.com domestic website

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    Complete rebuild of website including new copy, creative and upgrade of CMS. Analysis of content from the previous site, resolution of issues users experienced in the past, upgrade of CMS to be more efficient for editors. Integration of online booking functionality, data usage from the ATDW (Australian Tourism Data Warehouse) and application of the Google Search Appliance.

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Japanese

    Elementary proficiency

  • Khmer

    Limited working proficiency

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