Household Manager – Dallas, TX

Schedule: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm with flexibility (some travel & weekends)

Compensation:  $80,000 – $90,000

Benefits: Medical Dental Vision, PTO, Bonus

Overview

Family living in Dallas, Texas with a strong-willed 10-year-old boy is seeking a professional, organized, and detail-oriented full-time candidate to help manage a busy family and technology-heavy household.

The home is 9,000 sq. ft. on 2 acres.  The ideal professional will have experience working in luxury homes and be capable of maintaining professionalism in a high-energy home.

Requirements

• 5 – 10 years industry experience
• Non-Smoker
• Valid driver’s license with clean record
• Capable of passing extensive background check and BAI interview
• Ability to identify issues and address independently
• Highly organized, detail oriented, proactive, excellent time management, positive attitude, efficient and service focused
• Attentive to principals’ preferences and style (intuitive to their needs)
• Professional presentation
• Ability to develop and maintain solid working relationships with service providers, contractors, and vendors
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate effectively and efficiently with principals (extension of parents and consistent childcare philosophies) and domestic employees, responsive to feedback
• Strong technology skills
• High level of discretion, loyalty, integrity, and honesty

Duties & Key Success Factors

• Managing Housekeeping staff.
• Assist in transporting son to and from school, activities, sports in the afternoons.
• Assist in fresh and healthy meal planning and preparation for family
• Assist with inventory checklists for household items, food, children’s essentials, principals’ essentials, etc.
• Maintain comprehensive household manuals setting priorities for tasks on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Maintain file systems including those for household operations, warranty manuals, household equipment, invitations, entertainment logs, etc.
• Maintain contacts lists that include vendors, contractors, businesses, etc.
• Management responsibilities of 8,000+ square foot single family home
• Schedule and oversee vendors and contractors (e.g., winterizing irrigation system for winter, seasonal landscaping displays, interior design projects, etc.)
• Run errands (e.g., shopping for home supplies, returns, etc.)
• Managing tasks and projects around the home (e.g., receiving deliveries, service providers, contractors, etc.)
• Organizational projects, closets, rotating clothes seasonally, getting rid of outgrown toys and clothing, taking things for donation, etc.)
• Ensure pantry and fridges are properly stocked in accordance with principals and children’s travel and entertaining schedules
• Maintain vehicles, fill gas tank, take for service appointments and keep accurate records of services completed
• Manage household petty cash (including proper documentation) and submission of house/staff credit card purchases and receipts
• Schedule meetings with principal(s) as needed to discuss their schedule, children’s schedules, travel plans, upcoming events, special projects, etc.

Other Considerations

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 40 pounds
• Frequent bending, stooping, and stretching
• Ability to negotiate a multi-story house with stairs many times a day
• Ability to use a ladder up to 6’