Expertise
- Administration
- virtual assistant
- Data Entry
- Business Support
- Email management
- Audio Transcription
- Secretarial Support
- Administrative Support
- Administrative Office Support
Summary
Hello
Welcome to my page here on Cheshire Professionals. I am Toni, a Virtual Assistant based in Chester, Cheshire.
About me
I have been employed in secretarial and administration roles throughout my career, working for surveyors and consulting engineers, banks, a financial adviser, an IT training company and BT. Between 2002 and 2018 I worked in local government, mostly in a web editorial role, maintaining websites using Immediacy and Contensis Content Management System (CMS) software, writing, editing, proof reading and approving web pages prior to publication, advising on web page creation and good practice in web design, brand maintenance and search engine optimisation and continuously monitoring the website in terms of usability, accessibility and compliance with government legislation.
In 2001 I established The Information Point and in 2011 The Big Sunflower Project, two voluntary non-profit organisations to raise awareness of the rare neuromuscular conditions known as centronuclear and myotubular myopathy, creating and maintaining the websites and handling the communications, marketing and social media for both; producing Our World, an online newsletter twice a year; obtaining grants, funding, sponsorship, donations and distributing many sunflower seeds. In 2019 The Big Sunflower Project was nominated as a Community Hero as part of the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Local Charities Day.
Between 2018 and 2020 I worked in the training and development department of the Neuromuscular Centre, a charity which supports people with neuromuscular conditions. The work included organising a programme of training workshops and day trips, developing and maintaining systems to enable information evidencing the impact of the charity to be recorded, updating social media with relevant information to publicise the work of the charity, producing the NMC Training and Development newsletter and establishing NMC plant sales to raise funds for the centre.
My life as a Virtual Assistant
In 2020 I set up as a self-employed Virtual Assistant following redundancy. The reason for this is that I am diagnosed with a rare neuromuscular condition called centronuclear myopathy. Although mildly affected, the condition is progressing, as such I am trying to transition to fully remote working.
Izzy Wizzy provides good old fashioned secretarial values delivered with modern day speed and efficiency. In this role I have worked for a marketing company, a homestay company which hosted foreign language students, an organisation which worked in the NHS, voluntary and community sector supporting people with lived experience of disability and for companies that specialise in data management and artificial intelligence. I have also provided holiday cover for another virtual assistant and undertaken a one off project for a business in the recruitment industry. Exampes of the services I offer include:
- setting up administrative systems
- typing - producing Word documents, creating and populating spreadsheets, writing emails
- email inbox management
- desk research
- social media - creating social media pages from scratch, preparing social media posts, recording LinkedIn post engagement stats, advising on companies/people to follow and connect with, hashtag research
- creating meeting notes from audio and video recordings/transcripts
- updating websites and creating blog posts for these.
I am an approved member of the Society of Virtual Assistants, registered with the Information Commissioner's Office and have public liability and professional indemnity insurance.