Virtual Administrative Assistant with great English, for general admin support and some social media/graphics

We are looking for a permanent, long term virtual assistant who can accomplish a variety of tasks. We’d like someone who has a long term commitment to the job.

We can teach and train you in all your duties, and there will be clear directions, so you don’t need to have specific experience in any area. The main trait is simply a keen intellect and ability to learn new things quickly. You will work remotely, so you should be good at accomplishing work speedily with little direction.

We would like you to enjoy your job. A lot of it is detail-oriented, administrative work. The best candidate is someone who thrives with this type of work.

Responsibilities
Your job will be to provide administrative support over all the range of activities required, with flexibility to learn new ones as they become necessary. These might include:
– Pulling reports and updating Google spreadsheets with information
– Tracking inventory and ordering, and managing refunds etc
– Creating invoices
– Purchasing inventory based on defined rules
– Forecasting inventory needs
– Creating and updating coupons and deals on various platforms
– Updating sales pricing
– Creating visuals in Canva for product listings
– Formatting articles in WordPress for publication
– Creating infographics to accompany these articles
– Creating social media posts and interacting on social media

Personality traits
– Detail oriented
– Self motivated
– Intelligent
– Organized
– Good learner
– Trustworthy
– Able to work under minimal direction
– Loves admin work

Necessary qualifications
– Excellent English verbal communication skills
– Excellent English writing skills
– Stable Internet connection
– Your own computer, preferably with a large monitor or 2 monitors

Desirable qualifications
– Good design sense/ ability to create graphics, infographics
– Experience with social media
– Good with Google sheets/Excel

Work hours
I would like someone who is an early bird and available to start early in the morning. Preferably by 5 or 6am PHT so that we can meet at the end of my workday in my time zone to check in for questions. Another possibility is to be available in the evening. The main thing is SOME overlap with North American EST working hours of 8am-5pm, which is 9pm-6am PHT in Northern hemisphere winter and 8pm-5am PHT In summer. Work days Monday-Friday.

Hours
Flexible from 30-40 hours a week. It will be hourly, so you can shift your weekly hours based on your schedule, up tot 40 hours (full time)

Pay
$5 – 6/hour with 12 days holiday accrual per year after the first 3 months. Pay on the 3rd and 18th of every month.

Job Benefits
Considerate, loyal employer who will work with you to make your employment with us a good one. Varied admin work and some creative work, with remote work-from-home benefits. Regular, steady, secure pay.

How to apply

In your response, please explain a bit about yourself, why you want this job, what kinds of work you enjoy.

Please answer all of the following questions, numbering them in sequence.
1- As this job will include some writing, please submit a couple of samples of your writing, any kind. It will be informal, conversational writing, the kind you would use for social media, so those samples are best.
2- Do you have any experience with social media? Please provide information, any social media accounts you were involved with (links) and what you contributed to these (writing posts, getting followers, creating content, etc)
3- Do you have any interest or skill with creating graphics such as infographics or any other creative endeavors? If so please attach some samples.
4- Please describe your experience with any VA/ administrative jobs you have had. Do you enjoy this kind of work?
5- What are your available working hours? Can you start by 5 or 6am PHT? or stay until 10 or 11pm PHT? So we have overlap with North American Eastern Hours of 8am-5pm
6- What length of employment are you looking for (short term, long term, permanent etc)?
7- What kind of computer, monitor, Internet etc do you have?
8- Please include your CV

Thank you for applying! we will be reaching out to short listed candidates.