Los Gatos, CA | Professional Nanny/Family Assistant Wanted For Tight-Knit Family

This tight-knit Bay Area family is seeking a warm, team-oriented, and learning-oriented nanny/family assistant to support and nurture three bright, active, curious children in a collaborative environment.

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• Location: Los Gatos, California
• Ages of children: 3 years, 16 months old, and 18 months old
• Start date: As soon as they find the right fit!
• Schedule: Full-time, guaranteeing 45 hours per week with a general schedule falling on Monday-Friday 11am-8pm. Willingness to travel with advance notice is expected and highly valued. Additional weekend hours are offered if desired.
• Compensation:  The family is offering $45-50/hour for a 45-hour guaranteed work week, which equates to an annualized base compensation of $111,150-$123,500, dependent on experience and the agreed-upon schedule. The family may be open to candidates who are seeking a higher compensation package commensurate with experience.
• Benefits: The family is open to providing benefits, including paid time off, paid holidays, health insurance stipend, and relocation assistance.
• Live-in/Live-out: Live-out.

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Household dynamic:

• This tight-knit, grounded Bay Area family is seeking a warm, proactive nanny/family assistant to join their team in caring for their 3-year-old daughter, 16-month-old son, and 18-month-old nephew! Their daughter is a bright, imaginative child who currently loves books and will happily spend hours reading with someone who shares her enthusiasm. She attends a half-day pre-K program in the mornings and will begin swimming lessons soon at a local club. Her younger brother is active, curious, and growing rapidly, and the siblings adore spending time together. As a close-knit home, the children also spend a lot of time with their cousin. Mom’s sister employs a trusted long-term nanny/family assistant who primarily supports their nephew but has naturally become an integral part of all three children's daily lives. This role will work closely alongside her, creating a collaborative partnership that supports all three children while ensuring both caregivers feel valued, supported, and set up for success. Because the children are frequently together throughout the day, the family is seeking a candidate who embraces a true tag-team approach, enjoys dividing and conquering responsibilities, and thrives in a team-oriented environment. The family does not have pets at home, but they own a farm just five minutes away from home that their kids love to visit. The farm has dogs, cats, goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, chickens, and many more. While pet care is not required, an animal-friendly candidate is essential.
• The family fosters a deeply connected, multi-generational household where both parents love spending time with their extended family and are actively involved in their daily lives. They frequently move between homes within the family’s vicinity, often spending time with siblings and parents, which creates a warm and social environment. Mom is highly involved with her children’s lives and is seeking operational support. A candidate who will strike a balance between stepping in to support their needs and stepping out to allow for important family time, keeping their household operations running smoothly, will be key! Their household staff includes a current nanny, mother’s helpers, and housekeepers. The wider team, including those employed by their extended family, work together and support the family as a whole, so flexibility, excellent teamwork, and strong communication are essential. The family enjoys an active lifestyle and travels several times per quarter throughout the year. While most of their travel is currently domestic, they regularly visit Miami, Hawaii, and Europe, and also spend time at their home in London. They enjoy occasional international travel as well, including extended stays in destinations such as St. Tropez.

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Ideal Candidate:

• This position is ideal for a naturally warm, energetic, proactive, professional nanny/family assistant who genuinely enjoys caring for toddlers and young children in a busy, dynamic environment. The family is seeking someone who excels with multiple children and can confidently manage the pace, logistics, and occasional chaos that naturally comes with caring for three little ones. The family seeks someone who takes an engaging, learning-focused approach to their care, fostering their children’s curiosity, creativity, and engagement in daily routines. A candidate who loves reading, planning engaging outings, discovering enriching local activities, and creating meaningful learning opportunities throughout the day will thrive in this role.
• The ideal candidate is calm, highly organized, and can read the room - knowing when to step in and out while supporting and managing the household. Someone competent who has the energy to keep up with the myriad of family-assisting tasks and childcare responsibilities involved in running a home will thrive in this role! The family is looking for an adaptable nanny/family assistant with a see-a-need, fill-a-need mindset and a strong team-player spirit. Their home can be busy and ever-changing, and they value someone who approaches each day with a kind heart and willingness to step in whenever needed, whether that’s helping with their nephew, adjusting to a last-minute schedule shift, or supporting another staff member. The right candidate will bring a collaborative, all-hands-on-deck approach to the role and is comfortable in a social environment with frequent hands-off and tag-teaming childcare as well as naturally navigate a busy household where different staff may report to different family members. The family values trustworthiness, authenticity, and the ability to form genuine connections, and a candidate who is eager to be a trusted extension of their family. Travel is a significant part of the role! An on-the-go candidate who enjoys traveling, is adaptable in managing transitions between locations, manages the logistics of traveling with young children with ease while maintaining a positive attitude, and, more importantly, embraces these journeys as opportunities for adventure and learning will be a perfect fit!
• This person will be working alongside the current nanny as a true partner in managing the children, sharing responsibilities and coordinating care throughout the day. Responsibilities include both childcare and family assistant tasks. Childcare-related tasks include researching, planning engaging / fun social experiences focusing on social and educational development for the kids (eg. visiting the planetarium or zoo, looking for interesting activities in our town for children and attending them), planning fun experiences at home such as science experiments, or finger painting outside, etc, teaching them things (letters, phonics, numbers, etc), child-related household tasks including but not limited to setting a weekly menu and meal preparation, organizing of children’s areas, occasional errands, before and after school routines, coordinating activities, and traveling with the family throughout the year. No cleaning / no laundry apart from on vacation, where they would be responsible for the children's laundry. Family assisting duties include but are not limited to running errands, car maintenance, dry-cleaning runs, coordinating vendors, ongoing inventory, organizing projects, booking reservations/travel, coordinating/driving to appointments, managing the family calendar, and other ad-hoc projects.
• While not a requirement for the role, the family would love to work with a candidate with a fully staffed home and family assisting or house management experience.

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Qualifications:

• 3 years of professional childcare experience
• Knowledge and experience with age-appropriate developmental milestones for toddlers
• Experience traveling with families and children
• Experience and comfortable working with multiple children (2+)
• Physically able to lift and carry up to 35 lbs (the children's weights), including picking up, carrying, and moving between activities throughout the day
• Comfortable with everyday apps and tools such as Baby Connect, Google Calendar, scheduling apps, texting/photo updates, location sharing, and similar
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record
• Valid passport
• Animal-friendly
• Excellent swimmer, comfortable supervising and being in the water with young children
• Partners, family members, and/or pets cannot be housed in any temporary or long-term

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This position is open to all Adventure Nannies candidates who are legally able to work in the US. Out of respect for the privacy of the families we work with, we cannot provide any additional information about this position other than what has already been provided in the job description. If you are interested in learning more about the position, please apply!