Virtual Assistants (VAs) provide a professional administrative service to clients on a self-employed basis, working from their own premises. Some specialise in work requiring people skills while others concentrate on transcription and documents, with a further group offering creative, technical or book-keeping expertise. Many VAs choose to operate within a particular sector.
There are approximately 2,700 VAs in the UK working with nearly 13,500 (2018 data) small businesses. On average each VA works with 6.3 clients.¹
VAs usually establish long-term client relationships as well as working on shorter projects. They will usually already have at least five years’ experience working at a senior level such as PA, Executive Secretary or Office Manager.
¹ UK Virtual Assistant National Survey v10 © Society of Virtual Assistants
More information about VAs can be found on the Society of Virtual Assistants website.
These are the services I offer. If there are other ways I can help you administratively, do let me know so that we can discuss.
The way we work is tailored to you. If you like to communicate via short calls and emails throughout the week, or would rather devote a block of time on a specific day to a conversation by Skype which I follow up with agreed action, that’s fine.
Online diary management
- lunch engagements and follow up
- business meetings and conference calls
- effective communication with other Executives’ PAs
- contact information management
Co-ordination of teams/groups/Boards/Committees
- scheduling meetings and conference calls
- information updates
- administration of courses, team-building and fundraising events
- participant relations
- reminders
Telephone liaison
Special project administration
Email in-box, enquiry and client management while you are away
Meetings
- organisation and follow-up
- agenda setting
- attendance for Minute Recording (within Greater London)
- travel arrangements
Correspondence
- drafting and copy editing
- supporter relations
Documents
- word processing
- proof-reading and copy editing
- sorting and classifying
Event planning and co-ordination (with on-site assistance where appropriate)
LinkedIn profile set-up
Research and information collation
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