Personal Assistant and Au Pair | Observatory | R18 000 – R20 000 per month needed at Au Pair Extraordinaire

• A family is looking for a PERSONAL ASSISTANT & AU PAIR for their 18 years, 15 years, 13 years and 8 years old
• Area: Observatory, JHB
• Ages: 18 years, 15 years, 13 years and 8 years old
• Working hours: Monday – Friday: 08h00 – 17h00 / 18h00
• Duties: An extremely dynamic, organised, fast paced and flexible candidate is required to assist with part Au Pair duties and mainly Personal Assistant work for the mother. She often works from home and the home is an extension of her office. The mother is an extremely busy executive running multiple companies. She needs a candidate that will be able to assist regarding the children with school transportation, extra-mural transportation, helping the youngest with homework, managing the children’s schedule, being an extra loving adult that they can rely on.
• Over and above assistance with the children, the candidate will be assisting the mother with domestic management the includes but is not limited to running errands, organising shopping, management and organising of two busy households, liaison between household staff and the mom, assisting with the scheduling of the domestic duties and seeing to the implementation thereof, assisting to ensure the proper functioning and maintenance of the various domestic facilities, care and love of the family pets. The family pets are an integral part of the family and their care and wellbeing is a big priority for the mom. The candidate must love animals and enjoy having them in her/his space. Particularly dogs.
• Over and above assistance with the children, the candidate will be assisting the mother with personal and business admin that includes but is not limited to management of her emails, appointments and schedules, document processing, management and filing, data capturing, laising with the other business staff on behalf of the mom, answering the mom’s personal phone when she is in meeting. The mom occassionally travels for business and on those occasions will need the candidate to either work overtime to get the family “settled in” for the nights and/or stay over as the responsible adult. The family sometimes travels and on those occasions will need the candidate to manage and care for the home and pets in their absence.
• Requirements: a fast learner that is capable to quickly and effectively implement their learning, fluent in English or Afrikaans as their first language, a competent and confident driver with several years experience and is willing to undergo advanced driving training, computer literate with comfort in using MS Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook (or similar), and web browsing, a very high degree of personal accountability with a strong work ethic, self motivated and competent at self organising, a completed or in-progess tertiary education, is preferred, previous business work experience is strongly preferred, non-smoker, a non-vaper.
• Start date: ASAP start – permanent
• Salary: R18 000 – R20 000 per month (gross, before deductions) + car provided for childcare related duties 

All Au Pair Extraordinaire applicants must fill the following requirements:

• Must have at least 12 consecutive months of formal child caring experience, excluding work done for friends and family. This experience must be within the last 2 years.
• Must have their own, reliable car and at least 18 months driving experience.
• Must have at least 2 contactable childcare references.
• Must have a clear criminal record
• Must have a passion for children
• Must have Matric
• Must have a South African ID document.

Closing Date:  2026-02-28