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Virtual administrative assistant – Vacancy
Job Title: Virtual administrative assistant
Start date: ASAP
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: 20 hours per week – flexible
Salary: According to experience
SMAR Azure develops and commercialise advanced solutions for sail and sailing yacht rig design. With more than 200 clients in 30 countries, SMAR Azure solution are the standard in the industry. We are urgently looking for a virtual administrative assistant As a Virtual Assistant, you will perform various administrative tasks, including contacting customers and answering emails, scheduling meetings or webinars, and making travel arrangements. For this role, a strong Internet connection is required, along with experience using communication tools like Teams, Zoom, Skype. Good knowledge of excel and basic bookkeeping is also required.
Responsibilities
• Contacting customers and respond to emails
• Schedule meetings
• Book travel and accommodations
• Manage a contact list
• Maintain customers data
• Create short messages and news for social platform
• Create quarterly newsletters
• Address employees’ administrative queries
• Provide customer service as first point of contact
• Develop pro-forma and send invoices
Requirements and skills
• Proven experience as a Virtual Assistant or relevant role
• Familiarity with current technologies, like desktop sharing, cloud services and VoIP
• Experience with word-processing software and spreadsheets (e.g. MS Office)
• Basic knowledge of book-keeping
• Knowledge of online calendars and scheduling (e.g. Google Calendar)
• Excellent phone, email and instant messaging communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Solid organizational skills
• High school diploma: additional qualifications will be a plus
To apply please send an introduction letter and your CV to sabrina@smar-azure.com. The deadline for receiving applications is Wed the 30th of Nov. Interviews will be held starting from Thursday the 1st of December.
No agencies pleas
Sabrina Malpede a finalist in the EIT Awards
Delighted to say that our co-founder and director Sabrina Malpede is now a finalist in the #EITAwards!
This also acknowledges the leadership of SMAR Azure in providing unique and innovative design solution for the yachting industry.
We hope you will all support her in the EIT Public Award voting for her by clicking here.
Support during the HOLIDAYS!

Wishing you a lovely Christmas season and a very Happy New Year!
Support during the HOLIDAYS!
We know that holidays season is for people to relax, but for those of you who will be working, please be aware that our support will be unavailable on the 24th – 31st of December, as well as on the 1st – 3rd of January.
We are keen to support all our clients’ urgent matters during the days mentioned above as much as possible
AzureProject and RigEdge Usergroup Meeting 2021
A special THANK YOU to the attendees of our AzureProject and RigEdge Usergroup Meeting.
Led by Francesco Nasato and Donald MacVicar, the workshop hosted over 30 designers from all over the world, offering the opportunity for open discussion about the new features of AzureProject and discuss the new trends and potential improvements.

New AzureProject preview at METS 2021
Visit us at METS2021- stand 01.462- to preview our new version of AzureProject, including impressive new graphics features.

Meet Donald MacVicar at our stand 01.462 at METS 2021 in Amsterdam.
Donald will be there from Tue 16th of November afternoon to Thursday morning. To book a meeting, please contact us on info@smar-azure.com

New Version! New Features!
We have released new versions of both AzureProject and RigEdge. Check the new features available in the software:

THANK YOU!
A massive Thank You to everyone that visited us at our virtual METS stand over the last week from all over the world by staying safe at home!
As always, it’s been a pleasure to meet both long-time acquaintances and new people! We would like to thank for the effort made in connecting with us!

AzureProject & RigEdge Webinars
As this year’s METS was cancelled, @SMAR Azure are not going to miss the opportunity to meet all sailing passionate. We have organised webinars on AzureProject & RigEdge on Tue, Wed and Thu. Contact us (info@smar-azure.com) or click here to receive the webinar info and plan a meeting.
We look forward to ‘Seeing You’ soon


Merry Christmas
Christmas is all about giving thanks so, as we always say, thank you for being part of our big family. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Please be aware that our support will be unavailable on the 25th & 26th of December, as well as the 1st of January
