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Couples Job

  • Sector: Private Households & Estates
  • Function: Couple
  • Contact: Lesley Jones
  • Contact Phone: +441315565139
  • Start Date: March 2025
  • Location: Ireland
  • Salary: Euro 80,000
  • Job Ref: 117098
  • Contact Email: lesley@greycoatlumleys.co.uk

Couple Job, Ireland

Greycoat Lumley's client are seeking a temporary boating Manager and Estate Assistant in West Cork, Ireland and County Kerry, Ireland

The Family are seeking a Couple to primarily assist with the smooth running of a holiday home In West Cork and a second holiday home in County Kerry.  The roles are primarily based in West Cork from March 2025 to January 2026.

Duties include (but are not limited to):

  • Boat maintenance/handling

  • Taking care of kayaks and water sports equipment

  • Water skiing and taking guests out on the water throughout the summer

  • Cleaning/maintaining boats, wet suits, supplies and equipment

  • Lifting boats out of the water/mooring extraction

  • Supporting the housekeeper with all aspects of general housekeeping/house maintenance including cleaning, dusting, mopping, hoovering and changing bed linen

  • Laundry and ironing

  • Grocery shopping

  • Daily cooking (by arrangement with the family)

  • Running errands, e.g. collecting and dropping guests to the airport

  • Assisting with maintenance and upkeep of two additional properties on the estate plus the boat house

  • Supporting the head gardener and team with gardening, keeping court yards and terraces clean

  • Working with the estate team to oversee boiler pumps, swimming pools, heating, AC, etc.

  • Maintaining cars, golf buggies and garden machinery (cleaning, fuelling and servicing)

  • Detailed bookkeeping of all expenses

The Couple must have a flexible professional manner and be hard working with initiative.  Being organised and able to manage your own time is key as you will need to be a self-starter. 

Skills Required:

  • Computer literacy including excel is required for weekly reports when the family are not in residence

  • Good culinary skills to cook meals for the family

  • Have a good knowledge of boats (Hinckley & William Power Boats) and relevant boating qualifications - ICC skipper licence and qualification to captain boats

  • Be dog friendly (one family dog resident)

  • Non-smokers

  • Discrete and respectful of the family and guests’ privacy

Salary:  EURO 80,000 GPA for period from the 1st of March 2025 to 31st January 2026

Accommodation:   1 bedroom fully furnished property, bathroom, kitchen and living room.  Over 2 floors and across the courtyard from the main house

Travel expenses reimbursed

Four weeks holidays (timing to be agreed with the family.

Working hours:  6 working days per week while the family is in residence (typically 8 weeks per year), reverting to a standard 5 day week at other times.

Job:  117098

Consultant:  Lesley Jones