TAINA

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SCANDINAVIAN & SOUTH AMERICAN FAMILY LOOKING FOR AN AU PAIR TO JOIN THEM IN NAIROBI, KENYA
Our family is composed of Taina, Pablo and our daughter Sophia-Helena. Taina is Swedish and Danish and works for the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya and Pablo is from Uruguay is a Commercial Pilot and also works for the United Nations, but not in Kenya.

For this reason, we are looking for an au-pair to principally take care of Sophia-Helena when Taina travels, which she does extensively for work and Pablo's work entails long periods of time away from Kenya. We have a nanny that takes care of Sophia-Helena 5.5 days a week, as well as a housekeeper that cooks, takes care of the house and occasionally helps with Sophia-Helena. We have a lovely garden and the property is guarded by a security company.

We live in Nairobi, Kenya, in a quiet residential neighbourhood close to Taina's work and Sophia-Helena's playschool. It is very green, close to several shopping locations, restaurants and other activities. A normal weekday in our family is quite similar to most with young children and working parents:

We get up around 6:30am, have breakfast all together, then we drop Sophia-Helena at her playschool and Taina goes to work. At lunch, Sophia-Helena comes home, has a nap and then spends the afternoon at home playing in the garden with her nanny and our dog. She has dinner early in the evening, then a bath and then around 19:30 is bedtime.

The nanny usually goes home before Sophia-Helena goes to bed, therefore, we take care of this. When Pablo is in Nairobi, he spends most of the day studying at home and then a few hours in the afternoon playing sports not far from the house. Taina works long hours and often does not come home before 19:30-20:00.

Weekends vary, but we spend a lot of time at home enjoying the garden and house with some trips to different places where Sophia-Helena can play and enjoy. Soon we hope Sophia-Helena will start weekly afternoon activities, such as horse riding.

The tasks of our au-pair will basically be to step in and take care of Sophia-Helena when both Pablo and Taina are not at home. During weekdays this means preparing Sophia-Helena for school: waking up, getting dressed, breakfast, taking her to school and picking her up from school. Then taking over once the nanny has left, play and put her to bed.

On weekends it would mean taking care of Sophia-Helena entirely when either the nanny or housekeeper are not around (waking up, getting dressed, breakfast, playing, preparing lunch, playing, small excursions, preparing dinner, bed time etc.)

It would also mean overseeing the running of the household in Taina and Pablo's absence: grocery shopping, ensuring alerting Taina and Pablo if bills are unpaid, supervise the nanny and the housekeeper, ensure the garden is being taken care of, basically keeping a look-out that everything is in order).

Therefore, the position would suit someone who would like to do more than 'just' be an au-pair, as when Taina and/or Pablo are at home and the nanny is around, this would leave significant time for the person to do something else in Nairobi - whether it be learn another language, other pursue studies, volunteer etc.

We are looking for an au-pair specifically:
- speaks fluent English AND preferable Danish, Swedish OR Spanish.
- driving license for manual cars
- sensible, responsible, mature
- open-minded, used to different cultures, has traveled
- kind, friendly, loving, patient
- takes initiative, doesn't need to be told multiple times the same task
- can cook relatively well and doesn't mind cleaning or tidying

The au-pair would have a significant amount of free-time, including evenings. The au-pair would have their own fully furnished room with their own bathroom, in our house which is large and comfortable with all the usual amenities.

Kenya is a fantastic country with many possibilities to travel to experience wildlife as well as the beautiful coast.
JOB
Work experience
1 years
Required hours of work by the profile
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Expected salary
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Living
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Earliest start date
15-06-2018
Latest start date
31-07-2018
Shortest period nanny is required
6 month(s)
SPEAKS FOLLOWING LANGUAGES
Danish
English
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PREFER FOLLOWING NATIONALITY
Not specified
OTHER INFORMATION
Will care for children under 2 years
Will care for children with special needs
Has driving licence
Has first-aid training
Will look after pets
Can swim
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