The boy was born in Greece, has lived and attended school in London, Greece and Cyprus, and has been educated in the Greek and British school systems. He is a talented and intelligent youngster. He is competent in Greek and English, is an excellent artist, and also an able and competitive athlete, showing particular promise in swimming and basketball. His school grades are excellent across the board, especially in mathematics, and he is yet to be challenged academically.

The boy’s education has been atypical, including travelling between countries, with several changes of junior school. This has left him a year ahead of his peers, with the inevitable social challenge of building lasting friendships. In September 2008 he will be entering year 8 at a British day-school in Cyprus, where he will remain for an extended period. After school it is expected that he will go on to a prestigious university.

The appointed individual will be highly-educated, intelligent, well-travelled, responsible, practical, and down-to-earth. The tutor should also have a sense of fun and a wide range of personal interests that they can bring to the role. The tutor will have excellent English and will need to be fluent in a major European language, preferably French. The ideal tutor will also have some musical ability (piano preferred), be well-grounded in the Classics, and be physically fit and active.

The tutor’s personal knowledge, interests and study will need to encompass the various school disciplines, and to offer an insight into subjects and activities that the school cannot offer. The boy will respond best to someone who themselves is prepared to try, leads by example, and is willing to risk short-term failure on the road to long-term mastery.

The tutor will be given extensive responsibilities that may be subject to change at short notice. The position will suit a well-educated and polite person who is resourceful and self-sufficient. He or she should be a non-smoker who leads a healthy lifestyle, and who understands the importance of proper decorum in a wide variety of social settings.

After the boy returns from school each day, the tutor will work with him to make sure his homework is complete, and then provide a structure of activities. This may involve some tuition from other teachers - such as Greek or piano - it may involve taking the boy to and from a swimming session, or to something the tutor has organised himself.

Although, as mentioned, some of the tutor’s time will be spent helping with homework, this is not the primary purpose of the appointment. The family wishes to engage a tutor in order to broaden their son’s appreciation of the world, expand his horizons and ensure that he has a secure foundation that will underpin his future endeavours. The parents wish their son to develop an ethical character, with integrity and compassion, through a generally Christian upbringing.

Extracurricular activities will include, but not be limited to, sailing, horse-riding, skiing, windsurfing and snowboarding. There should also be challenging intellectual games including chess, and card games such as bridge. The only limits to the range of these opportunities will be safety, time and imagination.

The tutor need not be competent in all these pursuits, but will need to be organised and capable of arranging and supporting any activities outside their normal scope. This requirement, to ensure that the boy has the best support, will extend to all activities outside the tutor’s usual range, such as languages and piano. One of the essential remits of the tutor in this respect will be to ensure that the boy’s Greek is continued, that he learns French, and that he learns to write well in all three of his languages.

Of no less importance is the need to develop in the boy a positive work ethic and understanding of the lives of others. The tutor will need to arrange opportunities for the student to understand the working lives of those in the primary trades, such as fishing or farming.

The boy’s social development has been affected by frequent moves and the tutor will need to pay attention to developing and maintaining a close, appropriate and suitable network of friends around the world who not only will be good company in the short term but who will also prove reliable long-term friends as the student matures. The tutor will therefore need to interact socially with the boy and his family, and help the student’s cultural integration into a pan-European setting through arranging such activities as parties, group study, letter-writing, vacations with friends, games evenings, dinners, structured activities during vacations and so on. Again, this list is by no means exhaustive.

This is a full time position. It is not known at this stage what hours the tutor will work, but it is likely that he will be busiest at the weekends. When the tutor is not with the boy he will need to be researching activities, planning exciting excursions, or making other plans to fulfil the remit of this contract.

During term-time, domestic staff will ensure that the boy is ready for school. The tutor will need to work closely and collaboratively with these other staff to make sure that the student is ready for whatever activities are planned. It is not known what the exact division of labour will be, between the tutor and other domestic staff, but the tutor should take pains to develop a friendly and productive working relationship with existing staff at all times. (Meals occurring during work hours can be taken with the family.)

This position will involve considerable travel between the family’s six homes, in the UK, Greece, Cyprus and Monaco. This means that the tutor will need to be prepared to travel at short notice, and be able to settle quickly into new surroundings. The client will provide accommodation in each location for the tutor throughout the term of the contract. Three of the client’s homes will allow the tutor their own space, but sometimes the tutor will have to be accommodated in a guest room or a hotel. When the tutor travels with the family, the client will cover all the tutor’s travel expenses.

A car will be provided for the use of the tutor at each location, as needed - the tutor will need a clean driving licence.

Following preliminary interviews with Tutors International, the client will interview shortlisted candidates by videoconference before they meet the family.

This is demanding remit, requiring an extraordinarily skilled educator. In full consideration of the range of skills and experience required across the roles of tutor, companion and mentor, the client will pay an exceptional salary to attract the right person.