Travel researcher & assistant

Hello!

My wife & I are looking for a personal assistant to assist in online research and planning.

I am in my late 30s, raised in the USA & living in Singapore now, but originally from the Philippines. I can speak Tagalog. My wife is from New Zealand, and we have two kids age 8 & 11.

My wife & I travel half the year and need help from you to come up with trip ideas, create itineraries, do research, and manage reservations. We want to do novel activities, visit less visited sights, and have unique experiences, so research is very important. We don’t want to stick to the most common sights, but want to discover things before they get very popular, so it is very important that we scour travel forums, magazines, other travelers’ instagrams, to find as many potential possibilities as possible. We have a flexible budget so many of our favorite vendors, experiences, hotels, etc. are well known only in certain circles, so it may take a lot of stumbling around to find them. We are planning to develop a catalog of ideas so we can be sure to consider them when planning future travels; this is a particular project we’d be working on together.

You do not need to work strict hours, but you do need to be available on messenger promptly to handle issues and travel emergencies as they come up. I am pretty busy myself, so during downtime would expect you to be researching, coming up with novel ideas, and working on our catalog. Occasionally I will need you to do research on lifestyle related issues, such as schooling related matters for our kids or what type of product to buy. I will also give you some of my family photo editing and social media if you are able to handle it. I will give you access to my skype account, so please be comfortable calling internationally as I find it is much faster to make arrangements that way.

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Please have a college degree, a reliable internet connection, and be relatively available off hours — this is not a weekdays only, 9-5 type job. Please include a resume in your reply.

You should have a passion for travel as well, and have traveled as extensively as you are able. Please be sure to also include any work or interests you’ve done relevant to travel, such as any travel itineraries planned, your personal instagram or blog if you have traveled a lot, your favorite travel bloggers or forums you frequent, etc. If you have your own travel blog or have backpacked for long periods of time, that’s a big plus.

If you have used Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, please let me know as well as that is a big plus when working with photos. Otherwise I can teach you this if we work well together.

Unless you have a lot of travel planning experience, I will likely give you some sample research to complete as a trial.