The principal leads a busy personal and professional life, and needs to be polished, presentable and organised while balancing multiple commitments. Responsibilities are likely to include:

• Wardrobe & Styling – Assisting with dressing, personal styling (ensuring elegant and appropriate looks), maintaining  clothes and accessories, organizing seasonal transitions, coordinating dry cleaning and repairs, and handling presentation details.
• Beauty & Wellbeing – Managing appointments, creating and managing a beauty calendar, sourcing treatments, handling product restocks, integrating holistic wellness support, and ensuring ongoing post-treatment care.
• Social & Professional Coordination – Assisting with guest lists, managing RSVPs, preparing for social engagements, overseeing dinner party logistics, and liaising with vendors as needed.
• Household & Calendar Management – Tidying and organising personal spaces, general home organisation (to include closet, kitchen, bathroom etc), ensuring fridge and essentials are stocked, coordinating deliveries, tracking key commitments, and blocking time efficiently.
• Discreet & Intelligent Support – Anticipating needs, proactively suggesting and arranging next steps, and understanding social and professional positioning. Tracking multiple short, medium, and long-term projects creating plans.  
• Practical Assistance – Maintaining personal and living spaces to a high standard, handling small fixes as needed, keeping everything running seamlessly and elegantly.
• Petcare - some care for a very friendly and well-trained dog

The principal has a background in high-level media and luxury industries, and is recovering from a long and difficult medical journey.  She has just moved to Paris and is looking for someone who is very warm and maternal but also very take-charge and meticulous; someone who will be calming and grounding while assisting in fostering a balanced routine that promotes both recovery and productivity).  Candidates will therefore need to be:

• Positive, proactive and capable, able to see what needs doing and get on with it
• Multi-faceted, able to turn their hands to styling, cleaning, organisation, writing and admin, and general assistant-style duties
• Fluent in English and French
• Brilliant at staying at least 3 steps ahead, able to take the initiative, create structure and ensure everything runs smoothly
• Able to communicate effectively with all professional and personal contacts
• Organised, 
• Warm and friendly, able to act as the principal's advocate and to provide seamless support, advice and care
• Attention to detail and excellent at prioritising
• Someone who could really offer valuable advice on day-to-day decisions would be ideal.