- 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
Deadline is 26 Aug 2025
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Duration
2 months
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Commitment
30-40 hrs/week, Online
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Start Date
1 Sept 2025
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Access Fee
$5 a month
2 months
30-40 hrs/week, Online
1 Sept 2025
$5 a month
26/08/2025
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.
ALX All Access
ALX now provides more for those who want more. Access the ALX ecosystem for $5 USD per month including unlimited access to world-class tech training programmes, with costs ranging in value from $1,500 to $12,500 USD. With the support of our partners, ALX can offer all eligible learners access to our programmes with programme costs waived.
Programme Value
$1,500
Programme Duration
2 months
All Access
$5 a month
All Access Plus
$49 a year
Who Should Enrol?
This programme is suitable for people already working in tech, and for those who have no prior tech knowledge or experience.
- Years of Experience: 2
- Role: Business Administrator
- Age: 21
- Country: Egypt
- Education: Higher Certificate in Business Management
- Goal: Improve Technical Skills
- Years of Experience: 1 year (internship )
- Role: Business Management Student
- Age: 23
- Country: South Africa
- Education: Diploma
- Goal: To become a successful entrepreneur
- 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.
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
Learn essential skills including managing your client’s email and calendar, creating presentations, researching, booking travel, and data entry. Asana • Google Workspace • Expense Tracking
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
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
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
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
Sign Up to ALX
Create Account
Create an ALX account and confirm it via email.
Sign Up Now
Fill in a short form on our registration platform to confirm your interest in joining our next cohort.
Confirm Participation
You’ll get your decision immediately after completion. If accepted, you will be asked to confirm participation in order to secure spot in the upcoming cohort and will be redirected to e-hub.
Enrollment
For successful enrolment you need to log in to e-hub and complete the first $5 payment by the application deadline.
Payment Options:
Option 1: Multiple Months in Advance
Option 2: Pay as You Go
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 register for an ALX Programme of your choice, the cost of your programme will be sponsored. ALX All Access also provides you access to discounted third-party certification costs for programmes offering access to industry certifications such as AWS and Salesforce.
You will be able to register for as many programmes as you like concurrently, so long as all prerequisite requirements and business rules are followed.
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.
C. Pay on a monthly basis or several months ahead on the ALX eHUB.
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
- 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. Payment reminders will be communicated with you through your eHub profile and over email. Should you miss your payment deadline, your eHub learning access will be paused. Your access will be restored again as soon as your payment is made.
A. ALX Learners have the option to defer their programme start date with the following guidance:
1. Your first All Access Payment is non-refundable: ALX All Access gives you access the full community, events, content and benefits and you will remain active on the system, even if you defer your programme start date. You will have the option to freeze your monthly payments until your deferred start date; in this case your next payment will be due by your new cohort start date.
2. You will not be able to carry your learning progress forward and will be required to start your cohort from week 1 – with exception of deferment after successful completion of Professional Foundations. Once a learner successfully completes Professional Foundations, deferment to any Tech Specialisation is possible in accordance with the learning calendar.
3. You will not be required to go through the admissions process and will be able to enroll into your new cohort through the ALX eHUB.
As long as you maintain the $5 USD All Access payment, you will retain access to all programme materials and the ALX ecosystem, even after completing your programme. Access to programme materials as well as all other ALX ecosystem benefits will be revoked if you stop making your $5 USD monthly All Access payment. You can gain access back to programme materials and the ALX ecosystem by paying the $5 USD monthly fee again.
Please click on the following link to see our payment terms and options.
Deadline is 26 Aug 2025