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Virtual Assistant

Gain the Skills to Become a Virtual Assistant

This programme includes:
    • Essential skills to launch your career as a VA
    • Hands-on projects to refine your skills
    • Build your professional network and understand how to maintain clients

Application deadline is 6 Jan 2025

  • Duration
    2 months
  • Commitment
    30-40 hrs/week, Online
  • Start Date
    13 Jan 2025
  • All Access
    $5 a month
Duration

2 months

Commitment

30-40 hrs/week, Online

Start Date

13 Jan 2025

All Access

$5 a month

Programme Highlights

Learning by doing:

Learn to leverage AI and other workplace apps to work with and support decision makers and gain first-hand insights on how organisations are led.

Learning from others:

Engage with peers, attend events, and receive direct feedback from mentors and seasoned VAs, building your professional network and essential skills.

Formal coursework & training:

Gain practical experience to develop the right skill sets, tools, and mindsets to thrive as a VA in a rapidly evolving global workplace.

Companies that have hired our Virtual Assistant Graduates
Introducing

ALX All Access

* eligible learners may only enrol in one programme at a time.

Programme Value

$1,500

Programme Duration

2 months

All Access

$5 a month

Who Should Enrol?

This programme is suitable for people already working in tech, and for those who have no prior tech knowledge or experience.

Abasi Ahmed
    • Years of Experience: 2
    • Role: Business Administrator
    • Age: 21
    • Country: Egypt 
    • Education: Higher Certificate in Business Management 
    • Goal:  Improve Technical Skills
Anele Botha
    • Years of Experience: 1 year (internship )
    • Role: Business Management Student
    • Age: 23
    • Country: South Africa
    • Education: Diploma 
    • Goal: To become a successful entrepreneur
Adaobi Okafor
    • Years of Experience: 2
    • Role: Human Resources
    • Age: 25
    • Country: Nigeria
    • Education: Diploma
    • Goal: Develop Organizational Skills

Your Learning Journey

Mastering the essentials of being a Virtual Assistant will give you key skills needed to find meaningful work. Develop meaningful strategies and the healthy mindset needed to become a successful VA.

WEEK 1 & 2: Onboarding & Understanding VA

Kickoff with Karibu, and begin the first two weeks of the programme by learning about the responsibilities of a VA and what it takes to succeed. Essential Skills • Professional Skills • Time Management

WEEK 3 & 4: Practise Essential VA Tools

Learn essential skills including managing your client’s email and calendar, creating presentations, researching, booking travel, and data entry. Asana • Google Workspace • Expense Tracking

WEEK 5: Finding Opportunities & Upskilling

Understand how to find a job full time or freelance by learning how to network and market yourself, price your hours, and build relationships with clients. Upskilling • Networking • Relationship Building

WEEK 6: Sourcing Opportunities

Find your own practice opportunity by applying to jobs and reaching out to clients, showcasing your skills to help you start finding work. Interviewing • Negotiating • Relationship Building

WEEK 7: Practise Completing VA Tasks

Conduct your practice opportunity and put all the skills you’ve learnt to practice, simulating real-world VA tasks and deliverables. Practise opportunity • Hear from other VAs

WEEK 8: Niche Skills & Programme Conclusion

Request feedback, review niche skill sets, and gauge the possibility of future work using your new VA skills. Tips to get hired • VA Starter Pack • VA Tools

3-Step Admissions Process

Your submission will be automatically saved as you navigate between sections of the application. You can leave the application and come back to it. It will be kept as a draft until you submit it, or until the application deadline.

STEP 1
Create Account

Create an ALX admissions account and confirming it via email

STEP 2
Start Application

Application process will take 45 – 60 minutes

STEP 3
Confirm Enrollment

Once accepted to the programme, you will be asked to enrol to secure participation.

FAQs

In order to access the ALX ecosystem and your chosen programme, you will be required to pay the $5 All Access, giving you unlimited access to the full ALX programme portfolio, community, events and activities, rewards, benefits and, of course, our partners.
If you meet our eligibility requirements and successfully complete your application into an ALX Programme of your choice, the cost of your programme will be sponsored and you will not be required to pay anything other than your monthly $5 All Access.

A. All accepted applicants are required to pay their first $5 USD monthly instalment by the start date of their chosen programme. You can complete your payment through the ALX eHUB, with a variety of payment options available. Following monthly payments will be due one month from your programme start date. (Ex. If your programme starts on 18th November 2024, the first payment is due on that day, and the second instalment is due on the 18th December 2024.)

B. You can either pay the $5 USD All Access yourself or have someone pay on your behalf. ALX accepts all major credit cards, Apple and Google Pay, PayPal, and mobile money payment options. Some markets have cash options as well.

Learners can choose to pay either in their local currency or in USD. ALX fees are charged in USD and therefore are subject to exchange rate fluctuations.  

ALX accepts a wide variety of payment methods, including (but not limited to):.

  • Egypt: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, FawryPay
  • Ethiopia: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, TeleBirr, CBEBirr, M-Pesa, Hello Cash, EBirr 
  • Ghana: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, MTN, Vodafone, Airtel
  • Kenya: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, M-Pesa, Airtel
  • Morocco: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, Cash Payments
  • Nigeria: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, All Major Banks, Bank Transfer, ApplePay, GooglePay, POS, NQR, eNaira, PayAttitude, Paga,  1Voucher
  • Rwanda: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, MTN, Airtel
  • South Africa: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, All Major Banks, 1Voucher, ApplePay, GooglePay, Zapper
  • Other African markets: many of the above options are available in other African countries as well
  1. For bank transfers, please check with your provider as bank charges may apply.
    NB. For all non-card transactions (such as bank transfers, Applepay, GooglePay, FawryPay or mobile transactions) a 2% non-refundable processing fee may apply.

 

All Access payments are non-refundable and compulsory for learners to complete their programme. You will not receive a refund if you are unable to complete the programme, however you will be able to pause your programme and restart your learning at a later date. Please note that the deferment cut-off dates vary by proramme and after these dates you would need to re-enroll into the next cohort.

The first All Access $5 USD payment is due on your programme start date. All subsequent payments are due one month from your programme start date, and will be communicated in your eHub profile and over email. Should you miss your payment deadline, your eHub access will be paused and you will have two weeks to make your payment and reactivate your profile. Your access will be restored again as soon as your payment is made. If you don’t make payment within your two week reactivation period, you will be considered as dropped out and will be required to reapply to your programme to continue.

Please click on the following link to see our payment terms and options.

Application deadline is 6 Jan 2025

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