Kaia and Noa cheerful as usual	with Kaia on our terrace

Naha, Okinawa - Host Family at a Glance
40-something family, primarily German, living in Japan. Family speaks English, German, and Japanese. 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.
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City	Naha
State/Province	Okinawa
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Country	Japan

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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	23-27
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	No preference
Years of education required	12
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-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	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Negotiable
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English German Japanese
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	2
Children's ages	6, 9
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	40-something
Single parent family	Yes
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	March, 2010
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	May, 2010
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	12 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

Au-pair duties will include basic houswork, preparing meals, helping with home work and doing babysitting in the evening one or two times a week. As I'm a single parent home work duties might be more challenging then usual, but as both children attend school/kindergarten until afternoon, and also spend weekends with their mother, there will be plenty of free time too. Okinawa, beeing a subtropical island with marvelous beaches and a very lively and special culture, offers plenty of options for free-time activities. It would be of help if our future au-pair had a basic idea about life in Japan as it can be challanging for people not accustomed. Basic japanese language skills will be of help too, though they're not a requirment. As it is rather difficult to get a proper visa for Japan one option would be to become a student/guest student at my university. Another option might be to come as a Japanese language student. In any case high school level education would be a requirment.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

We, my son Noa Tian, 6, my daugther Su Kaia, 9 and me, Titus, the father, are looking for an open minded, reliable and caring au-pair (preferably female, but possibly also male) to support us with our daily family routine. We are a truely trans-cultural family with me being german, my two chidren both born in Japan, but also german nationals, and the mother of the two (and my ex-wife) being chinese from Shanghai. Further there's my Japanese partner Taeko who is a Yoga instructor and living with us part of the week. I teach art and design at the education faculty of the national university in Okinawa, the southermost subtropical Japanese prefecture. My ex-wive lives in Okinawa as well and cooperates with me in regard to raising our two children. As I hold the custody, the two are mainly with me, though usually twice a month they will also stay over the weekend with their mother. Noa and Kaia are very lively, open-minded, playful and cheerful children and it is very easy to spend time with them as the two are full of ideas and love to do all kinds of things. They both love nature and spend a lot of their time outside playing with their friends from the neighbourhood. We live in a spacious rather traditional style house surrounded by subtropical green right beside the former Ryukyuan kings castle site in Okinawa's capital Naha. I would consider our neighborhood to be one of most livable in Okinawa and though very quite its just a 20 minute monorail ride to down town Naha and just a 40 minute car ride to one of Okinawa's marvelous emerald beaches. If you feel that you might fit into our trans-cultural family please please try to contact us or add us to your favourites list.