Virtual Assistant for Hot EdTech Start-up

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Keywords: Virtual Assistant, VA, Data Entry, Market Research, Photo Editing, Data Collection, Agile, JIRA/Confluence/Slack, EdTech

Company Background: Altamira Consulting is an exciting EdTech start-up with 4+ years of growth. We understand that data is crucial for Education decision makers yet its abundance can be overwhelming. Altamira is on a mission to simplify data analysis and enable rapid decision making for all School Districts; we strongly believe this can change the world.

Product Background: ARIA (Advanced Regional Integrated Analytics), our cloud data-crunching machine supports data analysis for K-12 education decision makers. ARIA offers the education community ways to locate schools based on a selected geographic location, simplifies complex analysis on student’s data and empower School Districts to understand geographical impact on boundary changes to achieve optimal decisions.


We are in the search of a reliable, flexible, organised and detailed-oriented Virtual Assistant to support us growing the business and that wants to grow with us, to elevate the user experience for our customers.

You will be responsible and accountable for:
• Working closely with the founders on multiple supporting / assisting activities.
• Data collection and data entry tasks.
• Web and market research.
• Finding Emails/Contact details from Websites. Email list building. LinkedIn search. Lead generation.
• Basic graphic design and photo editing activities.
• Formatting documentation and presentations. Proofreading.
• Production of reports.
• Social Media management (scheduling/photo editing/hashtag research and more).
• Scraping and Extracting data from the Websites.
• Addressing of reviews, feedback and defects or enhancements raised against the deliverables.
• Attending agile ceremonies to check on progress and agree next steps.

Your essential skills and experience:
o Excellent communication skills, detailed-oriented and fast learner. o Diligent, persistent and willingness to learn new things.
o MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
o Video conferencing tools (Zoom, Google Meet).
o Ability to work in a lean-agile development ---------- sirable skills:
o Transcription and production of training material (if you don’t have experience on this, we can train you to augment your skill set). o Experience working for the education sector.
o Experienced with Canva, Zoho.
o Experienced with JIRA / Confluence and Slack.
o Fluent Spanish is a plus

Additional Information:
v Initial phase of work should take up to 20 hours (spread over 4 weeks).
v Ongoing potential development work, beyond this first assignment will last several months. There is plenty of work to do - we look to establish a nourishing relationship with longevity where you feel valued and there is mutual trust; our intention is not to just have a “one gig” type of work.
v Work will be carried out remotely. You should be available to chat on progress and answer any questions Mondays and/or Wednesdays and/or Fridays 9 AM to 11 AM EST (these are the core hours).
v It is your responsibility to ensure that you have a highly reliable and rapid internet connection as well as machine to ensure you are reachable on core hours, that you can take video calls and in essence to ensure that you can collaborate and work as part of the team.

Our values and your personality – We take this part very seriously, so you should not apply if the below does not resonate with you:
v Trust, Sincerity & Respect: We like being bold and are passionate about where we’re going. The best relationships are based on mutual trust and respect. We are feedback seekers and givers as this unleashes the utmost quality to our customers.
v Innovative & Persistent: We are creative thinkers. Innovation is on our hard-wired desire to improve things. We must aim for the impossible to discover the art-of-the possible.
v Simplicity & Customer Obsessed: In a world of complexity, we believe simple is better. We obsess with helping our customers and delivering products we feel proud of.
v Agility: Fear to trying new ideas and failing is our worst enemy, so we encourage challenging the status-quo. We learn by doing – doing well, doing not so well, failing fast, learning faster, sharing quicker and doing better. We are experts in what we do, as well as in learning to adapt.
v Collaborative: We support one another because we know that we’re stronger together. The better we collaborate, the more effective we are and it’s there where we are unstoppable.
v Relentless Humility: We do not like drama. We believe in Good Karma.

Key ways of working: You should feel identified by the below, in other words, you should feel like the below describes at least partially how you already work; if not you should not apply.
v Practical & Pragmatic: You believe in the mantra of "let's not re-invent the wheel"; you are smart with your time and seek for ways to re-use functionality to achieve more with the same time, instead of creating features from scratch when this is unnecessary.
v An eye for design: You love building things that look beautiful visually with great look and feel.
v Eager to learn: You are curious, are hungry for more technical knowledge and aren’t shy to show-off your geek side J


If you are looking to work in a large corporation and your sole motivator is short-term financial compensation or if working on a place with an unhealthy and toxic culture is something you don’t mind (or perhaps like), you should not ---------- contrast, whilst money incentivises you, you also value being a valued and to belong to a team, being recognised for the difference you make and being able to shape and influence decisions. Pushing others and being pushed to improve is something you see as key to growth. We see politics as unproductivity and distractors to delight our customers. We look for high performers that enjoy a healthy culture, no egos, being great at providing and receiving respectful and constructive feedback.

If all this sounds like the place you would like to join, you should apply!

We are Altamira Consulting, a rising start-up with presence in the USA and the UK. We are passionate about building people and teams, and believe in having a leadership team that look after our people, since you help us adding value to our customers.

Being part of Altamira means having a massive opportunity to grow with the business and unleash your technical skills as well as your creative potential. No day will be identical to the next.

Application Process. As a part of the application process, you must include the following information:
1) Your hourly rate.
2) Your top 3 pieces of work you are the proudest of (with examples or links if applicable).
3) Pick 2 of the values (from the section above ‘Our values and your personality’) and let us know, in no more than 200 characters,
why you picked those 2 and why those resonate to you.
4) Pick 1 of the ‘Key ways of working’ from the section above and let us know, in no more than 100 characters, why you picked that
and how that one resonates to you.
5) From the questions below, pick 2, and answer each one, in no more than 100 characters.
a) In my next job it's important that... b) I like to work with people who...
c) I want to work for a company that... d) At work I'm best at...
e) Outside of work I...
f) Right now, I'm learning...
g) I'm excited to work for a fast-growing company because... h) My favourite technology is...
i) In 3-5 years, I want to be...
j) The most impactful thing I've worked on is...
k) The coolest project I've built is...
l) My favourite product is...
6) Confirm that:
a) You should be available to chat on progress and answer any questions Mondays and / or Wednesdays and / or Fridays 10 AM
to 2 PM EST (these are the core hours).
b) You have a highly reliable and rapid internet connection as well as machine to ensure you are reachable on core hours, that
you can take video calls and in essence to ensure that you can collaborate and work as part of the team.