Infant Nanny in Upper Northwest, DC
City: Upper Northwest
State: DC
Compensation: $75,000–$85,000 annually | 45 hours per week guaranteed
Start Date: ASAP
Children: 6-month-old boy
Benefits: Paid major federal holidays, 10 paid vacation days (5 days aligned with the family’s prearranged travel and 5 days at the nanny’s discretion), paid sick days, and annual raises
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm with occasional weekends and date nights as needed
Description:
About the Family
A warm and loving family in upper Northwest is seeking a nurturing, detail-oriented, and highly communicative nanny to care for their infant son. Their baby boy is happy, growing well, and beginning to settle into more consistent routines and schedules. He enjoys exploring and engaging with the world around him, and his parents are looking for a nanny who genuinely enjoys supporting infant development in a thoughtful and engaging way.
Dad is a native Spanish speaker and Mom also speaks Spanish, so the family would love for their nanny to speak Spanish with the baby throughout the day. Spanish proficiency is a plus but is not a deal breaker. They would love to find a nanny who can naturally incorporate the language into daily routines, play, and communication.
Both parents work full-time, with Dad working from the office daily and Mom splitting her time between working from home and the office. The family values consistency, warmth, professionalism, and strong communication and hopes to build a long-term relationship with someone who can grow alongside their family over the coming years.
About the Role
This role will focus on providing attentive and developmentally appropriate care for the family’s infant son while helping maintain a calm, organized, and nurturing household environment. The baby is currently breastfed but takes a bottle, and will transition to exclusive bottle feeding. He sleeps well through the night but the family would value a nanny who is experienced with infant schedules, sleep routines, and developmental milestones.
The nanny will help maintain the baby’s feeding and sleep schedule and facilitate enriching, screen-free activities throughout the day, including walks, library outings, parks, museums, reading, classes, and other experiences that encourage exploration, independent learning, and development. The family appreciates a nanny who is proactive, engaging, and excited to foster curiosity and healthy development during infancy and beyond.
Child-related household responsibilities include:
Laundry for the child
Bottle cleaning and sanitation
Meal prep for the child
Kitchen tidying
Light home tidying and organization
Taking out garbage
Occasional errands
Helping maintain a clean and organized household
The family has professional cleaners but would love someone who naturally helps keep the home tidy day-to-day. Preparing simple homemade baby food would be a wonderful bonus but is not required.
The family also has a large, friendly Labrador Retriever. A dog walker comes midday, so direct pet care responsibilities will be minimal, though the nanny should be comfortable around large dogs and navigating child-pet dynamics.
Requirements:
Prior professional nanny experience
Experience caring for infants
Spanish-speaking ability is a plus but is not required
Strong understanding of infant development and developmental milestones
Warm, nurturing, detail-oriented, communicative, caring, loving, and consistent personality
Reliable, consistent, and proactive
Ability to maintain infant schedules and routines
Comfortable facilitating enriching, screen-free activities
Comfortable working collaboratively with work-from-home parents
Valid driver’s license required and reliable personal vehicle is a plus
Excellent references from previous families
Legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Family requires candidates to stay up to date on COVID boosters, flu vaccine, MMR vaccines and Tdap vaccine within the last 2 years
Pets: One large Labrador Retriever; family has a regular dog walker
Transportation: Family has a car available for the nanny to use; family is also near public transportation, with driveway and street parking available
Travel: No travel required at this time