Meet Melanie

If your business needs a wide range of VA skills, Melanie has 30 years’ experience as a senior-level Executive Assistant as well as strong marketing expertise. In Melanie's own words she tells you a little about herself below so you can get to know her. 

Get to know me

Hi, I’m Melanie. I’ve been a virtual assistant since 2019 when I left the corporate world in London to move north to Durham with my husband, Jim, and our two cats, Willow and Daisy. Instead of a two-hour commute, I now have a fabulous home office in the countryside, overlooking a field of alpacas, which I absolutely love! I also get to work with all kinds of business owners in different industries which is so interesting after such a long time in financial and professional services. 

When I’m not working, I love to travel around the UK in our campervan, visiting our herd of grandchildren, exploring new places and making new friends. Unless it’s cold, in which case I hibernate at home with Netflix and pizza.

Key Skills & Experience

I started my career as a Marketing Secretary in a well-known investment bank over 30 years ago, when you could still smoke in an office (can you believe you could actually do that!) and all my roles since then have been a mixture of support to senior executives coupled with marketing. I love the combination of support and creativity; what that means is that as a business owner, you get the full benefit of my experience with all things marketing and social media as well as top-notch executive assistance.

If you are looking for someone to write content, update your website, manage your social media accounts, build your audiences, write and send out your newsletters, manage your projects, correspond with your clients, manage your diary or generally organise your life, I can help.

My key skills include:

  • Diary management

  • Email management

  • Client liaison

  • Travel planning

  • Research

  • Project management

  • Event management

  • Social media management (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)

  • Proofreading

  • Copywriting

  • Email marketing

  • Website development

  • We are a busy inner city community centre run by volunteers. Melanie has worked with us since 2019 doing a mixture of admin tasks, in particular maintaining and updating our website, handling social media, assisting with publicity (including design) for some of our activities, keeping our online accounting system up to date, issuing regular newsletters to our users and Society members, clerking meetings, and helping with any other general admin tasks we need help with. She understands our local community and how our Centre works as she lived locally a few years ago. She is helpful and knowledgeable, highly skilled in administration, and extremely competent. I am more than happy to recommend her to you.

    Joan Twelves, Chair of the Board, Kennington Park Community Centre Community Benefit Society.

  • I have known Melanie for 10 years and can honestly say that she is one of the best assistants I have ever worked with. She is proactive, extremely organised and efficient with meticulous attention to detail, which meant that I was able to focus on other business priorities without worrying that something would fall through the cracks. As well as seamless diary management, Melanie managed our digital marketing and high-profile client events, both of which were executed flawlessly. Despite my initial reservations about remote working, there were no issues. She was a huge support and I would recommend her services without hesitation.

    Paul-Noël Guély, Founder & Managing Partner, Arma Partners.

Work with Melanie

If you would like to be introduced to Melanie so you can arrange a chat and see if she's the right VA for you, get in touch.