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Amersfoort, Utrecht - Host Family at a Glance
40-something family, primarily Dutch, living in Netherlands. Family speaks Dutch, English, French, and German. Looking for a female Au Pair. 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 01/24/2006	Last Activity 12/02/2008	Profile added to 11 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 0 Due
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City	Amersfoort
State/Province	Utrecht
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Country	Netherlands

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair
Prefers an Au Pair gender of	Female
Au Pair must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair in the age range	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	American, British, Canadian
Years of education required	17-19
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair	35 to 40 hours/week
We require the Au Pair to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	DutchEnglishFrenchGerman
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Roman Catholic
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	2
Children's ages	6 and 10
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	40-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair required	August, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair required	September, 2009
Shortest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Longest period Au Pair is required	18 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair job description

Our au pair's main responsibilities include bringing the girls to and picking them up from school and taking care of them until bedtime. This means being active with them (play, arts, crafts, games, etc), helping them with music practice (Sophie plays the harp and Julia the recorder) and taking the girls to after school activities and play dates, having dinner with them and getting them ready for bed. We would like you to babysit one or 2 nights a week. We are looking for an au pair who is active, enthusiastic and shows initiative: the girls need to enjoy spending time with you, so we would like you to find specific, interesting activities to do with them. Light housework (about 5 hours) includes keeping the girls' rooms and the play room tidy, folding laundry and occasionally running some errands.

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Dear Au Pair, We are currently all set with our au pair until the summer of 2009. She will leave by the end of August, so we will need an other au pair again in August / September 2009. So, if you're looking for a position next year, please read on! We (Jos and Ann) are a Dutch couple who lived and worked outside the Netherlands for several years, including 5 years in Belgium, a year in France and 4 years in the US (Greenwich, CT). Our youngest daughter, Julia (6) was born there. Sophie (10) grew up in Greenwich for a large part of her life and is fully bilingual. Thanks to our previous US au pairs, Julia now speaks quite a bit of English too. Both girsl are very much used to having an au pair in the house and love it (as do we). We are looking for an au pair to help us take care of our girls. We need flexibility: both Jos and I have demanding jobs with fairly long hours, so we need live-in help to look after the girls. Further, we like to give them extra attention in the form of another adult to teach and show them interesting things with a different outlook. A North-American touch is also most welcome: the English language, but also the American culture with Halloween, s´mores, etc. And some extra help around the house to keep things tidy and running smoothly. Also, if the rare opportunity to do something as a couple presents itself unexpectedly, we like to be able to do so. We currently live in a beautiful, restored home in Amersfoort (30 minutes from Amsterdam, 15 minutes from Utrecht), with a separate room & bath for our au pair. It is possible that we will move to Amsterdam in the not too distant future. As both girls are in school until noon (on Wed. and Fri.) or 3 PM (the other week days) you will have time to pursue other interests (classes, sports, volunteer work, etc.) during the day. We are looking for a loving, active, representative and enthusiastic girl to help us take care of the girls and do fun and interesting things with them. Kind of a big sister for them. The au pair we are looking for obviously loves kids. You like to play with children and teach them things. You are independent, yet would also like to become part of our family. We hope this gives you a good idea of our family. If our proposition is appealiing to you, please let us know! Kind regards, Jos & Ann