Free Virtual Assistant training scholarship in Nigeria

What you will learn

A ten-week certificate course in remote executive support: inbox and calendar judgment, writing in someone else's voice, non-negotiable confidentiality discipline, and the task-tracking systems real US clients already run on.

• Google Workspace & Microsoft 365 fluency
• Time-zone-aware calendar management
• Confidentiality & discretion protocols
• Multi-executive support without mixing context
• Travel booking & expense logging
• Task tracking (Asana, Trello, ClickUp)
• Executive-ready weekly reporting
• Industry specialization (founders, real estate, e-commerce)
• Real mock-inbox assessment

Eight weeks at a glance

1. Week 1: Foundations. What a VA actually does, the core tool stack, non-negotiable time-zone and confidentiality rules, and a full real-world morning managing a US executive's inbox and calendar.
2. Week 2: Advanced Inbox, Calendar & Document Systems. Deeper Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 fluency, expense logging, travel booking, and clean document and meeting-note prep.
3. Week 3: Client Relationships & Multi-Executive Juggling. Onboarding a new client from scratch, building a voice profile fast, and supporting more than one executive without ever mixing up their voice or their confidential information.
4. Week 4: Industry Specialization. The different rhythms and tools a founder, a real estate agent, a coach or consultant, and an e-commerce seller each expect from a VA.
5. Week 5: Advanced Pressure & Confidentiality Gray Areas. Handling a genuine high-stakes scheduling collision for an executive and a real confidentiality gray area under time pressure.
6. Week 6: Tools & Reporting Mastery. Deep task-tracking fluency across Asana, Trello, and ClickUp, and building the weekly summary report a busy executive actually reads.
7. Week 7: Full Simulation. Sustaining a realistic week's full workload: multiple inboxes, competing deadlines, and the remote-work discipline of running on US hours.
8. Week 8: Final assessment. Written exam, a graded inbox-triage simulation, and a practical task-board and reporting exercise: pass all three to certify.
9. Week 9: Practicum, part one. Three timed shifts on Brightline Office, a fictional company with an inbox, a calendar and executives who behave like executives. Items arrive the way they do in a real shift; every action is graded against the rules of the job.
10. Week 10: Practicum, part two. Three more shifts including a downtime drill, a peer review of another student's work, and a tutor-marked final. Passing needs zero critical errors.

Who this track suits

• You can hold genuinely confidential information: a client's finances, a health matter, an unannounced deal: without needing to talk about it, even to friends, even when it feels harmless to mention.
• You'd rather own a piece of someone's inbox and calendar and make the small decisions yourself than sit and wait to be told exactly what to do on every single item.
• You're comfortable working hours built around someone else's day in the US: which for a Lagos-based VA usually means afternoon-into-evening local time, not a 9-to-5 you set yourself.
• You want to get genuinely good at writing in someone else's voice: matching how a specific person actually sounds, not producing generically polite, forgettable replies that could have come from anyone.

How to apply

1. 1
   Apply

   Fill in the form. It takes about two minutes. One application per email address, for one pool.

2. 2
   Get accepted

   Acceptance emails go out in batches. Watch your inbox.

3. 3
   Start learning

   Open your first course or your track the same day. You have six weeks to finish your first course or Week 1.

More about the scholarship

All 2,000 free scholarships · In the news · Teachers · School leavers · Short courses