Rohan Smyth Email & Phone Number

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Communications and Community Development practitioner with over 12 years’ experiencedeveloping and implementing dynamic programs, productions, community engagement strategies,digital content, training, publications and events across diverse cross-cultural settings.

Alice Springs

My duties include: engaging with local stakeholders to plan, implement and facilitate engagement strategies for young Aboriginal people to develop skills in media industry roles and processes; to connect with local service providers to develop strategies to promote and support Wellbeing, Health and Mental Health; to showcase the Alice Springs Town Camps; to develop media in partnership with local organisations and campaigns, to liaise with professional media and arts organisations; to provide training to young people staff in the use of media platforms; to develop quality media production and graphic designs for local initiatives; to act as a mentor in the creation of youth-led media projects including short films, documentaries, music videos, video blogs, graphic designs, hip hop, and memes; to achieve employment outcomes for participants by connecting them with long-term media-related employment and training solutions; and to facilitate training workshops, outings, and activities.

Alice Springs

Alice Springs

Santa Teresa Nt

My duties included: engaging with local stakeholders to plan engagement strategies for young Aboriginal people to develop skills in media roles; to showcase the Ltyentye Apurte community through effective social media strategies (including the administration of Ltyentye Apurte TV); to develop media in partnership with local organisations and social campaigns (including the No More Campaign Against Domestic Violence); to liaise with professional media organisations (including ABC, BBC, NTIV, ICTV and Aboriginal Broadcasting Corporation); to provide training to Catholic Care NT staff in the use of social media platforms and film production; to develop quality media production and graphic designs for local initiatives; to act as a mentor in the creation of youth-led media projects including short films, documentaries, music videos, video blogs, graphic designs, hip hop, and memes; to achieve employment outcomes for participants by connecting them with long-term media-related employment and training solutions; and to facilitate training workshops, outings, and activities.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: developing and delivering Media, Music and Drama training programs for young people; planning, reviewing and implementing strategies for individual learning needs; preparing all elements of performances (planning, setup, rehearsals, cameras, lighting, sound etc.); and supporting staff at North Richmond Community Centre to develop effective social media and community engagement strategies.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: planning and implementing youth programs and activities for young people participating in Glossodia Community & Neighbourhood Centre’s programs; developing effective social media content and promotional material (including graphic design and media production); fostering participation and leadership in young people; one-on-one casework with young people; supporting young people to identify and overcome barriers; administering funding applications & acquittals; facilitation of youth activities, outings, workshops and camps.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: planning and facilitating a range of diverse entertainment for children’s parties and corporate events; supporting management to develop effective social media content; developing photography and film production during events; liaising with professional media companies; preparing all aspects for individual events including equipment, budgeting, travel, costumes, characters, activities, games, running times, logistics and contingencies.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: delivering immersive historical curriculum programs to primary school students; preparation, setting-up and carrying-out of activities, performances, talks, and exercises.

Sydney, Australia

In this temporary role my duties included: consultation and engagement with local stakeholders, across businesses and community groups to promote the Nepean Jobs For All program (focused on supporting businesses to utilise the diverse skill-sets of people living with disability); developing of community engagement strategies (in partnership with Penrith City Council and Blue Mountains City Council); and to develop effective social media content to support and promote the Nepean Jobs For All program.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: consultation with local and regional stakeholders including community service providers, inter-agencies, schools, businesses and young people to generate the capacity of the youth sector and support the delivery of youth services across the Hawkesbury; developing and administering social media for Council; providing support to youth service providers to develop social media promotions, events and campaigns; developing engagement strategies and film media for Hawkesbury City Council’s Strategic Plan Community Consultations & Youth Consultations (video productions included a documentaries focused on the views of young people from major events across the Hawkesbury in 2017); developing youth appropriate graphic designs and promotional products in partnership; collaborative planning and carrying-out of cultural events and celebrations including Youth Week, NAIDOC Week, & Harmony Day, and key youth consultations including the bi-annual Hawkesbury Youth Summit; creating Council reports regarding HCC youth initiatives; facilitating inter-agencies and meetings; promoting resources; conducting risk assessments; funding applications and acquittals, and holistically supporting the cause of increasing access to youth services across the Hawkesbury.

Sydney, Australia

In this temporary role my duties included: planning, implementing, and reviewing community programs with a focus on Children, Elderly and Aboriginal people across the Hawkesbury region; developing effective graphic designs and film productions for use across a variety of social media platforms; liaising with stakeholders to develop fundraising initiatives (including the Alex Partington Trivia Night which raised over $6000 for Alex’s rehabilitation after he suffered a major spinal injury in December 2016); liaising with local media organisations to implement marketing strategies; supporting management to update IT platforms; plan and facilitate weekly community workshops in podcasting and video production; conduct program evaluations; and provide reports to funding bodies.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: planning and developing an independent landscaping company; developing and administering a website and social media content for marketing purposes; liaising with customers to identify landscaping needs and requests; researching landscaping techniques; carrying-out landscaping projects; and general business tasks including travel, purchasing, logistics & accounting.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: engaging with schools and arts-organisations to develop the production of theatre-in-education performance packages for Australian Schools; writing, designing, directing, performing, and touring ‘The Right Balance’ to Australian schools nationwide; developing user-friendly social media content and website elements; providing teacher support materials, billing and reviews; (The Right Balance included: storytelling, magic, circus, live and recorded music and video production and was toured in regional and urban areas in all states across Australia).

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: co-ordination of vehicle team, management of routes and signage, identifying and removing hazards, general event management and support duties

Vietnam

My duties included: developing creative promotional strategies to support the Streets Arts For Street Kids initiative; creating effective graphic designs, film productions and publications for use on social media platforms and in funding applications; writing grant applications and producing promotional documents; setup, design, and administration of websites, blogs, e-news, and e-mail networks; planning and facilitating cross-cultural physical theatre and circus workshops across Vietnam.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: managing a team of young employees to perform all tasks to run an Air-Trampoline park. Included rosters, procedure creation, and training employees to provide: customer service, Work Health and Safety, and facilitate games and activities.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

My duties included: training as part of a team at Sor-Su Malee in Chiang Dao Thailand; supporting fighters as corner-man and trainer; and participating in professional Muay Thai fights in Northern Thailand.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

My duties included: developing, promoting, and implementing capacity building projects with stakeholders engaged in the creation of cross-cultural community development programs with a focus on media and performance as tools for engagement - (stakeholders included local community service groups, marginalised young people, stateless families, local schools, NGOs, youth workers, international arts-organisations, circuses, theatre companies, arts professionals, bands, teachers, young people, and students, from Southeast Asia and across the Globe; developing effective social media and community engagement strategies to connect with a variety of networks (including setup, design and administration of websites, blogs, e-news, and e-mail networks – (highlights included the creation of Southeast Asian Social Circus Network, Asian Social Circus Association, and the Southeast Asian Community Circus Festival); planning and carrying-out of media production projects to showcase the Makhampom Foundation (including the 2011 & 2012 Study Tour documentaries); planning and facilitating cross-cultural workshops in physical theatre production and performance (including acting, circus, music, video production, lighting, sound, yoga, fitness, martial-arts, puppetry, games, theatre-sports, and other creative activities); developing training programs and facilitating training workshops for local young people in movement, circus, acting, music and storytelling.

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: managing customer inquiries and ticket purchases; preparing theatre spaces for events; and execution of lighting, sound, props, stage-management, and rigging.

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: engaging with local stakeholders and funding bodies to develop the Aboriginal Performing Arts Program; planning and facilitating workshops for young Aboriginal people in the Bathurst region (consisting of performance skills, sports, games, circus, dance, film production); and mentoring young people to create showcase performances for use in the Aboriginal Performing Arts Program Festival).

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: directing young artists to plan, develop, and carry-out performances and workshops (toured with Hooley-Dooleys in 2010); graphic design; social media and marketing.

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: engaging with community service organisations to plan the delivery of the ‘Lovebites’ anti-domestic violence program for high schools; tailoring the delivery of the program to include physical theatre, hip hop, and music video production; facilitating program activities; and creating video documentary focused on program outcomes.

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: customer service; library records management; planning and hosting cultural events including Youth Week; and storytelling for children.

Bathurst, Australia

In this temporary role my duties included: planning and facilitating lectures and workshops in the study of performing arts as a tool for teaching drama to high school students.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: performing a variety of Theatre-In-Education performances to Australian schools; creating to promotional material for websites and publications; carrying out all elements of production including: travel, setup, performance, striking, and customer service.

Bathurst, Australia

My duties included: planning and facilitating creative circus, hip-hop, and performance workshops with young people in the Central-West region for school holiday programs.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: general building laboring duties; carpentry repairs, high-pressure cleaning and general farm-duties.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: general laboring duties; website design; administration; and accounting.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: planning shift tasks; training staff in all areas (service, food production and maintenance); children’s parties; general management duties at stores in Richmond, Windsor & Bathurst NSW.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: providing tutoring services to high school students including: Mathematics, English, Science and Drama.

Sydney, Australia

My duties included: delivering food and beverages to customer’s homes and general kitchenhand duties.

Certificate Iv, Training And Assessment

Bachelor Of Arts - Communications: Thatre/Media, Cultural Performance

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