Family photo Summer 2007	Summer 2007

Niederkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily American, living in Germany. Family speaks English, and German. Looking for a female Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 03/23/2006	Last Activity 11/20/2009	Profile added to 42 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 8 Due
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City	Niederkirchen
State/Province	Rhineland-Palatinate
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Country	Germany

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Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	Female
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	No Preference
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	American, Austrian, Belgian, British, Bulgarian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	25 to 30 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English German
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Protestant
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	4
Children's ages	7,6,5,3
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	No
Our family falls in the age group	30-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	November, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	February, 2010
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	5 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	15 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

AuPair will be for the most part more of a mother's helper or a Big Sister. Our 7 & 6 year olds will be in American school full time and come to work with us (both teachers) in the morning and come home with us in the afternoon. Our 3 & 5 years olds attend German Kindergarten in our village and finish their day at 2 pm. A more detailed description of duties is below.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

Dear Aupair, My husband (British) and I (American) live and work for the US Government as teachers here in Germany. We have 4 children. The 2 younger children attend kindergarten in a our village full-time (until 2 pm). We have a separate furnished apartment that is completely separate from the house. It is large and contains a bed and other furniture, TV, DVD and CD player, full kitchen, full bathroom, own teleph. line, wireless internet access, etc. In the main house, we have a small workout room with a treadmill, cross trainer, bike, free weights, etc. We are looking for someone who is fun, energetic, flexible, has initiative and is eager. We are very laid back people, but do have a busy household! Kids are involved in activities such as piano, swimming, karate, soccer, tennis, dance, etc. It would be nice to have someone who can speak English and German (but this is not a must), someone who likes being outside, arts and crafts, and music (my husband used to be a professional musician and plays piano and the guitar - so kids love music and he is teaching them!) is a plus. As we are teachers for Americans, any days we have off from school for holidays, you too, would have off. This includes many 3 day weekends, 2 weeks at Christmas, and a week in April to travel and relax. We really want someone who will be part of the family and help out just as a member of the family. We have had au pairs for the last 5 years and the hours typically were Monday through Friday 7:30-4:00 pm. However, this is the first year that all the kids will be out of the house for a good portion of the day. This will likely mean very flexible hours for the new au pair. Perhaps helping out with the cleaning, cooking, and day to day stuff that crop up. Saturday and Sundays are days off. However, there will be about some Saturdays that we will require assistance. My husband and I are both completing our Doctorate degrees and our classes meet on some Friday evenings from 6-9 and some Saturdays from 9-4. However, it is not every weekend. We would also like to find someone who likes to cook and could prepare some simple dinner meals 3 or 4 times a week as part of her duties. In addition, we would like to include a few hours for cleaning the house (vacuuming, dusting, cleaning fingerprints that are...everywhere, etc.) and to help with the laundry and putting the kids' clothes away. This would be included in the hours required. When we get home from work and the kids' activities I want to be able to enjoy the kids and not have to stress about dinner having to start dinner! In short, we need an au pair who is VERY flexible and is willing to help out in all aspects of our busy, but fun life!! But most importantly, we want someone to be part of the family. Our children have truly loved out aupairs (who we keep in touch with and continue to have visits from!) and will treat you like a Big Sister. Our family ofers a unique situations as you would be able to experience 3 cultures - American and British in our home - in addition to living in Germany and being exposed to German culture. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us. In addition, we can give you contact information for our previous aupairs. We have had four aupairs and have loved the experiences. We look forward to hearing from you and potentially making you part of the family! *I have not yet had the chance to add recent pictures to the gallery, but there are some from last year of the kids, one of of our house, your apartment, and the area.