Governess/Career Nanny

Job Title: Governess / Career Nanny (7 years minimum Experience required)

Start Date: Job Offer after 2 week trial

Salary: $135k-$160k Commensurate with Experience

Health Insurance: Offered

Paid Vacation: 14 Days Total. (10 days vacation, 2 days personal, 2 days sick) Advance notice is preferable / flexible as long as a staff member can fill in for you when you plan on being absent.

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Hours: 7:30am-7:30pm

Commitment: Minimum commitment of 2 years - the father is a very loyal employer and wants long-term arrangements only. If you cannot commit to at least 2 years please do not apply as this is a CONTRACT ROLE.

Schedule:7:30am-7:30pm

Travel: International and domestic 2-3 weeks per year. Trips can be planned for the children by nanny as well, father will come along.

Fully Staffed Household

Summary of Role:

This is a job for someone highly cerebral, with great common sense and proven skills for infants and toddlers that can act as a Governess/Nanny and grow to become a primary caregiver and partner to the father and the rest of the team. You’ll be responsible and accountable for the children’s overall well being, happiness and social, physical and cognitive development. This is an opportunity unlike any other one.

Unique Career Opportunity:

Kind and active parent wants permanent employees in his fun-loving, happy, structured home.The Father is very involved in every aspect of the children’s lives, however he is a busy executive working from home and he currently employs staff based on their willingness to stay long-term (currently has a Personal Assistant, baby nurse, housekeeper and teacher employed) so its important that a Nanny/Governess meet all the requirements so it will be a long-term fit.

Dream Job for “Efficiency Ninja”:

Are you naturally thoughtful, highly efficient and energetic? Part of the quality of life at this role is that there is no overbearing mother involved and you will have the freedom to be a primary caregiver and influence the children as they grow. This is a dream job for someone whose passion is to expand the minds and worlds of little children and support them as they develop into intelligent, independent, resilient humans with big imaginations and ideas that they can comfortable share with their favorite people (you, their family, their teachers and their friends.)

This is not the type of role where you will be micro-managed. You will have the freedom to create and plan activities and vacations that help the girls develop into their best selves. Therefore it is imperative that you are self-motivated and disciplined to work efficiently without direction and you prove to be trustworthy from the onset of employment.

• CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
• COMMON SENSE
• Patient, gentle, kind and ability to form a bond; genuinely loves children
• Proven ability to excel at childcare roles through self-motivation, discipline and efficiency without direction from employer.
• ABILITY TO SCHEDULE ACTIVITIES AND PROPERLY MANAGE TIMESO THE GIRLS HAVE A FULL DAY AND THEY ARE CONTINUALLY STIMULATED AND ENGAGED
• PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Common Sense, Critical Thinking Skills, Problem Solving Skills: Proven to excel in these areas
• Knowledge of Childhood phases / cognitive development to foster advancement for both girls - someone highly experienced with Infant / Toddler phases to meet the girls in their current phase of development. Someone naturally interested in their advancement and uniqueness as they grow.
• Attention to detail: cleanliness and organizing the children’s things are extremely important, light tidying, helping keeping children’s areas clean, taking out garbage, if the children have an interest order things that they will enjoy, etc.
• Unique Schedule and Activity planning: the 2.5 year old loves art, music, loves to dance, You’ll need to recommend courses for what the girls are showing interest in (piano lessons possibly - its important to be someone that can stay ahead of these types of things and not wait for suggestions from the father, someone seriously responsible for their development) For example: “I found this great ranch with mini horses and other farm animals, I think that may be great for F, we can take her here for a few days” - proactively investigating vacations is highly appreciated in this role.
• Weekly meetings: Staffworks together as a team with father, they like to get together, have dinners, we go over whats working, whats not — make suggestions, they want open communication. to catch up on whats not working and suggestions for the children as they grow, the team discusses issues and solutions during this time.
• Attire / Uniform: Conservative and Polished Professional attire. Nanny should dress in a professional manner at all times, be presentable asyou will be going to nice places.
• Must love dogs: 73 lb dog lives in home. Very sweet, barks sometimes.
• Neat and organized: Leave it better than you found it. (The children’s spaces) The girls room should be organized with clothes and items looking neat and presentable, with clear organization.
• Light Housekeeping: Children’s laundry, tidying up the kitchen, the children’s dishes, organizing, acting as a part of the team and helping out so that when you are not available others will want to help you out as well.
• Ability to create and manage routines: It is vital that someone approaches each new day with excitement and joy. You are happy when waking the children up,“good morning, today is a great day” - you open the blinds, F she loves to sleep, you must wake her up gently, pick up her room while she’s waking up, clothes should be laid out at night, F is fully dressed before she goes down for breakfast, brush her teeth after she eats and floss at night
• Educated: Educated Candidates highly preferred.
• Wardrobe turnover: Seasonal and outgrowing clothes. Recognize when shoes don’t fit, clothes are running small and when new items are needed - Baby Nurse (baby nurse) will order clothes.
• Language: Highly literate and Fluent in English. Must Read and Write in English
• Articulate, great at communication.
• Food Savvy: breakfast Oatmeal with berries or Light scrambled eggs with avocado and berries or make adelicious smoothie with peanut butter, honey and organic kale or spinach, yogurt - Someone who is food savvy and has the natural ability to be resourceful in creating simple, interesting meals and fresh natural snacks (washing the pesticides off of fruit with vinegar, taking precautions to fuel their little bodies properly) Lunch and Dinner - healthy proteins and vegetables that taste good.

The baby should be eating more solid foods, cut into tiny pieces to help her chew, monitoring her eating to make sure she is swallowing properly, facial expressions which determine her desire for the foods being given to her.

Coordinating with Baby Nurse to order groceries each week / keep pantry stocked with foods for the kids.

• Paying attention to their cognition: This cannot be stressed enough.
• Continuing to provide a happy, safe, exciting and loving environment is of the utmost importance to this father
• Highly professional and pro-active, anticipating the needs of the family and children
• Adhering to the father’s style of parenting: Gentle, loving and direct
• Polished: Polite, well-mannered, presentable, professional attire
• Works well with others, great personality, fun to be around, highly responsible, understands how to connect with older children
• Must be organized, a quick thinker able to anticipate and handle issues quickly and you absolutely must be highly motivated to excel in your role as a primary caregiver.
• Patient, gentle, kind and ability to form a bond; genuinely loves children
• Drivers License: Safe Driver
• Be kind to everyone in the home, weekly meetings are had to keep staff communicative and on the same page, honesty and understanding, and keeping a highly professional demeanor when relating to other staff members is important
• Trustworthy