Housekeeper & Household Assistant

Title: Housekeeper & Household Assistant

Location: Chicago, IL 60657

Employment Type: Part-time (15-20 hours/week)

Proposed Start Date: ASAP

Compensation: $30-$35/hour based on experience

Requirements:

• Maintain a smoke-free environment
• Reliable transportation for errands and occasional driving
• Comfortable completing hands-on household tasks
• Background check required

Proposed Schedule: 2-3 weekdays per week, approximately 15-20 hours total

• Preferred schedule includes Monday and Friday, plus Tuesday or Thursday
• Typical shifts are 4-5 hours starting after 10:00 AM
• Wednesdays are avoided due to the family's regular cleaning service
• Occasional flexibility for vendor appointments or maintenance visits is appreciated

About Our Family:

We are a warm and welcoming family of four in Chicago's West Lakeview neighborhood seeking a hands-on Housekeeper & Household Assistant to help keep our home clean, organized, and running smoothly day-to-day. This role is centered on consistent light housekeeping and home upkeep , ensuring that our space feels reset, tidy, and comfortable throughout the week.

While we do have a weekly professional cleaning service that handles deeper cleaning, this position plays an essential role in maintaining the home in between visits-handling daily cleaning, laundry, and general tidying, and taking pride in the details that make a home feel calm and well cared for.

For someone who enjoys creating order, staying active, and supporting a busy household behind the scenes, this is a steady, straightforward role with a clear and important impact.

Top Priorities for This Role

This role is primarily focused on hands-on housekeeping and daily household upkeep to ensure the home stays consistently clean, organized, and running smoothly.

The day-to-day responsibilities center on:

• Daily housekeeping resets: cleaning and maintaining all main living areas, including kitchen surfaces, dishes, floors, and general tidiness
• Laundry management: handling all family laundry from start to finish, including washing, drying, air drying, folding, and putting everything away
• Home upkeep: making beds, tidying rooms, taking out trash and recycling, and ensuring all areas of the home are clean and reset each visit

The family does have a weekly professional cleaning service, but this role is responsible for maintaining cleanliness and order in between those visits.

Once these core housekeeping tasks are complete, there may be time to support additional items such as light meal prep, errands, or home organization projects.

Who You Are / What We're Looking For

This role is best suited for someone who enjoys hands-on housekeeping work and takes pride in keeping a home clean, organized, and running smoothly day-to-day.

You are someone who:

• Takes satisfaction in maintaining a clean and orderly home environment
• Is comfortable with routine, physical household tasks (cleaning, laundry, tidying) as a primary focus of the role
• Is proactive and notices what needs to be done without direction
• Has strong attention to detail and follows tasks through to completion
• Works efficiently and independently during set shifts
• Is reliable, consistent, and takes ownership of their responsibilities
• Brings a positive, can-do attitude to supporting a busy household

This is not a purely managerial role-it is ideal for someone who enjoys being actively involved in the day-to-day upkeep of a home.

Key Responsibilities:

Daily Housekeeping & Home Upkeep (Primary Focus)

• Clean and reset kitchen daily (wipe surfaces, clean sink, load/unload dishwasher, hand wash as needed, vacuum floors)
• Complete all family laundry from start to finish (wash, dry, air dry as needed, fold, and put away-nothing left in machines)
• Maintain laundry areas (wipe down washer interiors, clean dryer lint regularly)
• Make beds and tidy all bedrooms and common areas
• Maintain overall cleanliness and tidiness of the home throughout each shift
• Take out trash and recycling; break down boxes as needed
• Water and maintain indoor plants
• Fluff sofa cushions on a weekly basis

Additional Household Support (Occasional / Seasonal Priorities)

• Run occasional errands (e.g., package returns) and assist with general household logistics
• Support general home organization and seasonal projects (e.g., patio setup, décor, storage areas), including maintaining the roof deck during active seasons and managing seasonal storage bins
• Assist with periodic deep cleaning projects (e.g., monthly refrigerator clean, quarterly oven cleanouts, maintaining utility areas, toy organization)

House Management Support (As Time Allows)

• Light meal prep (washing/chopping fruits and vegetables, occasional simple dinner prep)
• Coordinate light home and vehicle maintenance (e.g., scheduling service appointments, tracking upkeep)
• Provide occasional supervision or transportation for the family's 9-year-old
• Optional evening/date-night childcare support if there is a strong mutual fit

How to Apply

Please submit the following:

• A short introductory letter
• Your updated resume
• Three professional references with contact information

Please note: this role requires a background check.

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