There is a girl aged 9, (in year 4), and a boy of 6, (in year 2). Both children are currently enrolled in a private prep school in the UK and will be returning to the school when they get back from their travels.

The girl is bright and engaging, kind and thoughtful. She loves to learn, enjoys home and school work, and is interested in everything around her. She has a wide variety of interests, especially horses, arts and crafts, painting and drawing; she is also learning the recorder and piano. She is doing well in Maths but needs extra help with her English, especially when it comes to confidence with writing. She is also learning French, and it would be ideal if the tutor could continue this during the assignment.

The boy is an energetic, active youngster, with lots of energy. He loves to be outdoors, investigating, experimenting and exploring. He particularly likes insects and beaches, and also enjoys practising football skills.

The children will remain enrolled in their school in the UK, and the tutor will be responsible for ensuring that they stay up to date with their peers while they are away. It may be possible to do more than stay up to date and to get ahead of the curriculum, if the school are amenable. Clearly this will require the tutor to work closely with the school and the teachers throughout the assignment.

Although the precise location of this assignment is not yet known it is expected the tutor will make considerable use of the environment, adapting the materials suggested by the school when working with the children. Besides spending time in formal classroom-style instruction, the tutor should offer a rich and diverse educational experience, including plenty of educational games, to create a fun and happy ‘school’ for the children.

It may be possible, depending on the location, to enrol the children in a local school for a couple of days each week. The idea of a local school enrolment has two aspects - it offers the children social opportunities with others of their own age, and provides the tutor with some additional time off. (If it can be arranged, the tutor will be free during the school day.)

It would be nice, but not essential, for the tutor to help the children with a weblog of their experiences for their friends (back in the UK) to follow while they are away.

This position requires considerable flexibility on the part of the tutor - the successful applicant will appreciate that their role is not purely that of a tutor, rather, they are part of an extended team.

The parents usually leave for work in the early hours and return in the evening. It is not expected that the tutor will be responsible for the children for the entire period that their parents are away - a local child-minder will also be recruited to help. This may take a week or so after the family get to their new home and, during this period, the tutor will likely have longer hours than our standard contract. After this, the tutor is not expected to work in excess of an average of 5 days per week.

The tutor will receive 4½ weeks paid vacation during the assignment, or payment in lieu (at the end of the assignment) for any vacation entitlement not taken. The client will reimburse the cost of the first outward and final return journeys.

Accommodation
The tutor will be provided with their own en-suite bedroom in a family house rented for the duration of the assignment.

Driving licence
The tutor may be expected to drive the children and should have a clean driving licence.

Non-smoker
The tutor should follow a healthy lifestyle and be a non-smoker.

First Aid
The ideal tutor would have a current first aid or lifeguard qualification.

Attributes
The children are being raised to have a pluralistic, open-minded and balanced perspective on such potentially complex areas as religion and it is expected the tutor will support this position. The tutor should be self-reliant, have good manners and appropriate values. Although the family will be open and friendly it is important that the tutor understand their position and behave with the formality required of a role such as this.

Future assignments
If this job goes well it is likely the same tutor will be offered further work with the family on future overseas assignments.