Emma, Flora Feb. 2008	Pius, Feb. 2008

Steinerkirchen an der Traun, Upper Austria - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily Austrian, living in Austria. Family speaks English, and German. Looking for a female Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will not need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
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City	Steinerkirchen an der Traun
State/Province	Upper Austria
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Country	Austria

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	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	American, Australian, Austrian, Belgian, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Maltese, New Zealander, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scottish, Slovakian, Slovenian, South African, Spanish, Swedish
Years of education required	13-16
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	30 to 35 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Either
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	No
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	Christian
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	3
Children's ages	2,4,6
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	Yes
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, 2008
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	June, 2009
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	3 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	12 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

What we are looking for is someone who is willing to talk English to the girls in first place - to give them the chance to learn a second language as soon as possible. We had 4 Au Pairs stying with us (all 1 year) and it seems, this attempt turns out well. Emma's English is really not bad - she's understanding almost everything and can make herself understood, too and so does Flora. At the moment there is an aupair from Australia staying with us until Nov. 2008. Our kids are going to a Montessori Kindergarden because be belive in this way of learning and its very important for us. Some help in the household will be appreciated. We're very open minded and have friends all over the world, in Vancouver B.C. & Edmonton/Alberta, Perth/Australia, L.A, Mauritius, Florida, Namibia & South Africa and some other places. We're very interested in other cultures and love to give people the chance to learn about Austria and Europe. We'd expect a little interest in our culture an way of live.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

We think you'd be interested in who we are: We're an Austrian family, Emma (* 2/18/2002), Flora (* 4/28/2004) - our daughters and Pius (* 1/18/2007), Anita (38) and Toni(39) - us parents, Mrs Jacob & Gundula - the donkeys, 3 rabbits and Coloumbo the dog. A pony will arrive in November and to buy a horse next year is the plan. We're living in a very old castle on the countryside in the middle of Austria. 2 hours from Vienna to the west, 1 from Salzburg to the east, and 6 from Venice :)). The village we're living in is rather small - some 2.300 people live there - and is situated in the alpine foreland just on the "border" to the well-known Salzkammergut. We're living around 5 minutes from the village center (by car), the next bigger cities are reachable by car, bus or train within 20 (Wels) and 40 minutes (Linz). Toni has his He's the head of our family company which operates in diverse fields, from internet software development through music production (we've a company in LA wich is run by Toni's brother Georg) to the management of the castle we live in as well as another castle that also belongs to our family. Anita used to work in our company is now off to take care for the kids but still gives a hand in the ed. Toni's parents also live in the castle - they're both retired but still working in the company (Dad does all the financial and legal stuff and is in charge of developing - the other castle). Anitas parents live close in the neighbour village. Her dad is electrician, her mother works for the gouvernment in the 'musical education section'. We're all rather busy but love to lean back in the evening (especially in summer) for a nice glass of wine, a BBQ or so. We like to go to just somewhere on the weekends. A nice room (50 m2) with separate bathroom is waiting for you. There's one important thig you'll have to consider: Autrian regulations stipulate the knowledge of some German before granting the Au Pair status. Therefore you'd have to come up with a prove of some sort. A certificate that you attended some German lessongs in a school will perfectly do. You also will have to attend a German class in Austria to extend your Visa which you will get for only 6 month the first time. Well - there would be much more to say but this should give some impressions of who we are.