House Manager & Family Support (with Special Needs Childcare Experience)

House Manager & Family Support (with Special Needs Childcare Experience)

Location: Castle Rock, CO 80108

Employment Type: Part-time, 25-30 hours per week

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM, with occasional Saturday flexibility for date nights (1-2 times per month).

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Household management and pet care

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm: Child care

Additional flexibility required for support during school breaks, closures, and select school-related events.

Compensation: $36-$42 per hour, commensurate with experience

Start Date: ASAP

Requirements:

• Maintain a smoke-free environment.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Reliable personal vehicle.
• Valid driver's license and current vehicle registration required for gated community access.
• Experience working with children with autism required.
• Comfortable providing bathroom support for one child.
• Comfortable administering emergency medication, if needed, to a child, including an EpiPen.
• Comfortable administering insulin injections to the family dog.

About Our Family:

Based in Castle Rock, we are a bustling, warm household of five, with three beloved dogs and three incredibly loving, kind, and energetic boys (7-year-old twins and a 5-year-old) who make life feel full, lively, and bright. Both parents work demanding careers mostly from home, with occasional extended-hour schedules and travel, and with not all children attending the same school, the rhythm of the house shifts depending on who is home and what's going on.

We are an early-rising, early-to-bed family and care deeply about a well-run, highly organized home and a supportive, consistent environment for our kids to flourish in. While we have a general sense of household order, with three spirited, young kids (two of whom have mild to moderate autism) who all have energy to burn and love to go hard when it comes to play time, three dogs, and packed, and at times inconsistent, work schedules, keeping everything on track has become incredibly time-consuming and is impacting our quality time together.

Although we have house cleaners twice a month, we're looking for a highly seasoned, patient, calm, and proactive house manager and family support person who can fill in the gaps in between starting with creating and maintaining meaningful organizational systems in our home, caring for our children after school through dinner time (including supporting play time and meal prep), tackling laundry, resetting and tidying spaces, and supporting pet care, so we can focus on what matters most to us: having the time to be present as partners and a family and truly enjoying each other's company.

Who You Are / What We're Looking For:

You are warm, grounded, patient, and have experience caring for children with autism. You're firm but kind, consistent, and know how to create structure, set rules, and hold a boundary with care and kindness. You have high emotional intelligence, can easily read the room, and know how to create a calm, organized environment even on the busiest days.

You are highly detail-oriented, organized, self-managed, and proactiveyou notice what needs to be done: kids who need a snack, laundry that needs to be started, and a space that could be tidied and resetand you handle it seamlessly, without being asked. You would describe yourself as mature, reliable, and not easily flustered. Whether you come from a teaching background, have raised your own children, or have years of experience in childcare settings, you bring a high level of expertise, confidence, and steadiness.

Our ideal fit is someone who is comfortable adapting to a schedule that shifts from time to time, naturally anticipates needs, takes professional boundaries seriously, and feels comfortable working alongside parents, thriving in a collaborative, communicative environment. You also have excellent time management skills, can balance competing priorities with ease, and are comfortable taking cues from the family's rhythmsyou know when it's appropriate to step in or step back, and feel aligned with a lifestyle that values calm, positive living. You must also be comfortable and have experience working with dogs (medium and small).

Key Responsibilities

Family Support & Child Assistance:

• Provide approximately two hours (4 pm to 6 pm) of childcare supervision for three children after school through dinner time.
• Prep backpacks, lunch containers, and water bottles for school.
• Provide bathroom support for one child, as needed.
• Administer emergency medication, including EpiPen, if needed.
• Provide occasional Saturday day or evening support for date nights (1-2 times per month).
• Provide childcare during school-related activities or events as needed (e.g., swim lessons).
• Provide childcare coverage during school breaks and closures.
• Kid-related errands, as needed.

Household Organization & Maintenance:

• Create and maintain household organization systems throughout the home.
• Perform daily resets and prepare home for bi-monthly house cleaner visits.
• Light tidying throughout the day dishes, surfaces, and daily vacuuming of high-traffic areas.
• Manage seasonal swaps for clothing, bedding, and dcor.
• Change batteries, light bulbs, smoke detector checks, etc.
• Manage outdoor spaces and tidy up after children.

Meal Support:

• Prepare fresh, healthy dinners for children daily.
• Prepare school lunches and two daily snacks for all three children.
• Grocery shopping, on occasion.
• Follow dietary requirements: the household is gluten-free (separate microwave and toaster for any gluten-containing items); one child has a minor peanut and tree nut allergy - peanuts/tree nuts are permitted in the home.
• Maintain a clean and organized kitchen.

Laundry & Linens:

• Wash, fold, and organize laundry for the household.
• Rotate linens as needed.
• Maintain tidy and well-stocked laundry areas.

Inventory & Errands:

• Restock pantry, refrigerator, and household supplies.
• Maintain running household supply lists.
• Handle mail, packages, and box breakdown.

Deep Cleaning & Special Projects:

• Occasional deep cleaning tasks (fridge, oven, baseboards).
• Refresh high-use areas such as the garage, mudroom, and entryway.
• Ongoing organizational projects including toy storage, children's clothing, linen closets, and seasonal dcor.

Pet Care:

• Feed and walk three dogs daily.
• Supervise dogs in the yard (invisible fence).
• Administer insulin injection to one dog after meals.
• Track pet supplies.
• Provide pet sitting when the family travels out of town.

How to Apply:

Please submit a cover letter, an updated resume, and three professional references with contact information. This role requires a background check.

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