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About the Role

A family in Murray Hill seeks an experienced, highly organized, and hands-on Family Assistant/Household Manager to maintain an organized, calm, and well-run home. The role focuses on household organization, home upkeep, family support, and ensuring smooth operations, with a warm presence for two independent children during after-school and evening hours.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a beautifully organized, orderly, and welcoming household
• Provide daily upkeep and refresh of the home, with deep cleaning handled by the family's regular cleaner
• Refresh and maintain the principal's personal spaces on a daily basis
• Manage family laundry, including washing, folding, putting away, and maintaining organized laundry systems
• Maintain closets and wardrobes, including ongoing editing, folding, organizing, and seasonal upkeep
• Organize drawers, cabinets, kitchen spaces, pantry areas, and other household storage
• Proactively identify areas of the home that need attention and restore order without waiting to be asked
• Maintain and restock household and pantry supplies
• Receive meal deliveries and manage meal service from start to finish
• Heat, plate, and serve family dinners
• Reset and tidy the kitchen following meals
• Keep the kitchen and pantry organized and well stocked
• Assist with light food preparation
• Run household and personal errands as needed
• Coordinate with household vendors and service providers
• Oversee appointments, deliveries, repairs, and individuals coming into the home
• Help ensure household systems and routines operate smoothly
• Provide a warm and reliable presence for the family's two children, ages 12 and 14
• Check in with the children after school and ensure they have what they need without hovering or providing unnecessary hands-on care
• Help reinforce reasonable household organization and routines with the children
• Provide occasional evening supervision
• Stay overnight with the children on rare occasions when the principal travels, with advance notice
• Assist with basic care and oversight of the family's cat
• Pitch in wherever necessary to support the household and family

Requirements

• Ideally 8–10+ years of experience working in private households
• Previous experience as a Family Assistant, Household Manager, Executive Housekeeper, or in a similarly hands-on private household role
• Exceptional organizational skills and a genuine enjoyment of creating and maintaining organized spaces
• Hands-on mentality and willingness to perform both household management and practical household tasks
• Highly proactive and able to recognize what needs to be done without being directed
• Comfortable with laundry, wardrobe care, household organization, light cleaning, kitchen upkeep, and meal service
• Enjoys cooking and working in the kitchen
• Comfortable working in a home with older, independent children
• Warm and nurturing without approaching the position as a traditional nanny role
• Comfortable with cats and willing to oversee basic pet needs when necessary
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Discreet, trustworthy, reliable, and respectful of family privacy
• Flexible regarding occasional schedule changes, later evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, and rare overnights
• Excellent professional references
• Seeking a long-term position with a family that values mutual respect and a collaborative working relationship

Skills

• Organization
• Household Management
• Laundry Care
• Wardrobe Care
• Meal Service
• Light Cleaning
• Kitchen Upkeep
• Food Preparation
• Errand Running
• Vendor Coordination
• Communication
• Problem-Solving

Location

• Murray Hill

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8-10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• 115,000-130,000