Overview:
A large and busy family in Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL is looking for another ROTA nanny to join their wonderful team. The family has five children: a 4.5-year-old, a 3-year-old, 1.5-year-old twins, and a 6-month-old.
The schedule is full-time and rotational:One week on one week off. This is a 24/7 rotational position, including overnight on-call responsibility as needed. The family will communicate specific weekly hours in advance. Flexibility for evenings, travel, and occasional overnight shifts during the rotation will be key for the right candidate! This is a very busy household with many moving pieces. You must be local or plan to be local soon.
This is a professional, structured household with clear roles, established boundaries, and an emphasis on teamwork. We’re looking for candidates who communicate professionally, accept feedback, and are comfortable maintaining appropriate boundaries with the employers. Someone seeking a highly informal or family-like relationship with the parents would likely not be the best fit.
Responsibilities:
- Full childcare of five active children, close in age
- Enrichment in and outside the home, monitoring and encouragement of milestones, partnering with mom and dad to ensure the best care
- Light housekeeping related to the children, including laundry, solids introduction and meal preparation, and keeping children’s spaces tidy
- Managing packing, unpacking, and activity planning during family travel
- Strong meal planning and keeping fresh, wholesome food on hand for the children
- Working well within a collaborative, staffed household designed to provide seamless coverage for the children. The nanny team includes four rotational nannies, with two nannies working together during each rotation and one providing overnight coverage.
- The full-time Lead Nanny is now in place, along with a weekend nanny. You will need to who work collaboratively within this established team, respect the Lead Nanny’s direction, and contribute to consistent childcare routines.
Qualifications:
- Exceptional hands-on nanny with tremendous energy and executive functioning who can thrive in a fast-moving team environment.
- Highly organized, an excellent multitasker, proactive, low ego, comfortable taking direction, and very good at anticipating what needs to happen next.
- The ideal candidate will have great initiative, sound judgment, child development expertise, collaboration, and professionalism.
- This is not a role for someone who wants to be a family member- this is a professional atmosphere
- An associate’s degree is required, with a strong preference for a bachelor’s degree, particularly in child development, early childhood education, or a related field.
- Prior rotational experience is strongly preferred but not mandatory.
Requirements:
- 5 years of professional childcare experience
- Associates degree is required
- Previous experience working in a HNW/UHNW private household is required.
- Experience working in a team or fully-staffed environment
- Ability to live-out while off duty and live-in during monthly 24/7 ROTA shift
- Willingness to relocate within a commutable distance of Chicago
- Able to swim and care for children in water
- Travel experience
- Family assisting experience
- Valid passport
- Valid driver's license
- Dog-friendly and willing to provide light pet care
- Ability to take feedback
- Partners, family members, and/or pets cannot be housed in any temporary or long-term accommodations provided by the family
Salary and Benefits:
- DOE $140-$150k- family will not being going over that range for this specific role.
- Health insurance reimbursement/stipend, matching 401k contributions,