Vanda Sárai
Content Strategist

Vanda Sárai

Content strategist, journalist, copywriter & translator.

About

Vanda Sárai is a content strategist, journalist, copywriter, and translator (English to Hungarian) with experience working for various clients, including YKRA, Social Design Cookbook, Let it Be! Art Agency, Talentuno, XorXor, and Könyvmolyképző Kiadó. As an art journalist and editor, she regularly publishes articles in the sphere of contemporary art and cultural policy in major Hungarian art magazines. She is also an editorial member of the print art magazine, Műértő and regular contributor of Artportal.hu and Punkt.

Employment

3 roles
Mar 2019 - Present 7 years 2 months
Content Strategist, Journalist, Copywriter & Translator
Independent

Vanda has provided services in content strategy, journalism, editing, translation, translation (English to Hungarian, and vice versa), copywriting, content writing, and social media management.


As a content strategist and social media manager for Talentuno:

  • Coordinated the work of the in-house creative team (both Hungary and Poland), and collaborated with external agencies regarding blog, vlog, and podcast series.
  • Came up with thematic ideas, briefed the creatives, gave feedback and revised their work.
  • Wrote posts on the blog channel, helped on the set of the vlog recording, and assisted with the recording of the podcast series. 

As a communication and social media specialist for the Social Design Cookbook, a crowdfunding campaign:

  • Managed the communication and social media presence of the crowdfunding of Social Design Cookbook.
  • Raised more than €4,500 in two months on the largest Finnish crowdfunding page called Mesenaatti that was used for printing the book independently.

As an art journalist and editor:

  • Regularly published articles in the sphere of contemporary art and cultural policy in major Hungarian art magazines.
  • Functioned as an editorial member of the print art magazine, Műértő, regular contributor of Artportal.hu and Punkt, and an advocate of the Central-Eastern European art platform, East Art Mags. Featured in multiple catalogs, and was also an editor of the exhibition catalogue Time of our Lives? taking place at MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary.

As a translator (English to Hungarian, and vice versa):

  • Translated Claire Bishop's Radical Museology to Hungarian that was published by the Hungarian National Museum & ICOM in 2018.
  • Translated for a publishing house specialized in children's and Young Adult books, Könyvmolyképző Kiadó.
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018 2 months
Marketing Project Manager
Libri-Bookline

Libri-Bookline is a big cultural enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe, which was created with the merger of Hungary’s two strongest book brands, Libri and Bookline. 

  • Created presentations and data visualizations for the largest Hungarian book retail company.
  • Helped them coordinate their Christmas CSR project and a children's book campaign. 
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018 2 years 10 months
Community & Social Media Support Expert
Prezi

Prezi is a presentation tool that helps transform lackluster, static presentations into engaging presentations that tell a story. 

  • Maintained the online community forums of Prezi, and also engaged in discussions with the user base who reached out on the social media channels of the company.
  • Created FAQs and tutorial posts on how to use the product.
  • Coordinated the work of a small team of support agents (Budapest, San Francisco, and LATAM).
  • Arranged training for the new members joining the team.
  • Created reports from user feedback and channeled it back to the company.

Education

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016 2 years 9 months
Master of Arts, Aesthetics & Art Theory
Eötvös Loránd University
Sep 2010 - Jun 2013 2 years 9 months
Bachelor of Arts, English & American Studies
Eötvös Loránd University

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