Siwash Lake Wilderness Resort is hiring a Seasonal Private Nanny & Household Assistant for the 2026 summer guest season. This role is centred around caring for Max, our 2-year-old son, helping support his safety, happiness, independence, confidence, and development while living in a unique ranch and wilderness environment.
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The right person will love young children, be genuinely interested in early childhood development, enjoy outdoor play and nature-based learning, and also be comfortable with the practical work of supporting a busy household. This includes laundry, dishes, cleaning, tidying, organizing, and helping keep daily life running smoothly during the resort season.
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This is a unique seasonal role at a small, family-owned luxury wilderness guest ranch. Siwash Lake hosts a maximum of 16 guests at a time and is known for horseback riding, wilderness adventure, ranch life, sustainability, and highly personal hospitality. Our children’s activities are inspired by our Free-Range Kids program, with days often including nature walks, creative outdoor play, fort building, visiting farm animals, collecting eggs, and spending meaningful time outside.
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While the role is mainly private nannying for Max, occasional childcare for guest children may also be required. The right candidate must be comfortable living and working in a remote resort setting where the days can be dynamic, plans can shift, and team members sometimes need to jump in, pivot, and help where needed.
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About the Role
This is not a childcare-only position. Household support is a meaningful part of the job.
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The successful candidate will be responsible for helping Max have a safe, happy, active, and developmentally rich summer. This includes supporting his daily routines, encouraging his growing independence, helping him explore the world around him, and providing steady, attentive care through the normal ups and downs of toddler life.
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This role also requires practical household support. You should be equally comfortable reading books with a toddler, playing outside, helping with potty time, preparing simple snacks, folding laundry, cleaning bathrooms or common areas, resetting the kitchen, tidying play spaces, and noticing what needs doing without being asked every time.
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Because this role exists within a working luxury wilderness resort, flexibility matters. This is not a purely private household environment. The right person will understand that Siwash Lake is both a family home and an active hospitality business, and will be able to work with professionalism, discretion, warmth, and adaptability around family, staff, and guests.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide warm, attentive, and safe care for Max, age 2
- Support Max’s current developmental stage, including independence, communication, confidence, emotional regulation, outdoor exploration, and practical life skills
- Support daily routines including meals, snacks, naps or quiet time, toileting support, handwashing, dressing, transitions, and outdoor play
- Create activities that suit Max’s abilities, interests, confidence, and readiness, with a focus on outdoor play, creative exploration, ranch life, and healthy development
- Keep Max’s clothing, gear, toys, room, and play areas clean, organized, and well maintained
- Manage Max’s laundry and support family laundry as needed
- Help with dishes, kitchen resets, tidying, cleaning, organizing, and general household upkeep
- Help keep the household functioning during busy guest periods
- Occasionally provide childcare for guest children, typically ages 1–8
- Communicate clearly and collaboratively with parents about Max’s day, needs, routines, and any concerns
- Work respectfully within a small, remote resort team
- Pivot and help where needed when resort life requires flexibility
- Follow Siwash Lake’s safety, cleanliness, sustainability, hospitality, and guest-experience standards
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Who Will Thrive in This Role
You may be a strong fit if you:
- Have genuine confidence and experience with toddlers
- Are interested in early childhood development and enjoy helping a young child grow in confidence, independence, curiosity, and capability
- Are warm, calm, patient, practical, and safety-minded
- Enjoy being active and spending time outdoors
- Are tidy, organized, and willing to help with household work
- Are comfortable with toileting support and the realities of caring for a toddler who is still developing full independence
- Notice what needs doing and take initiative
- Are comfortable living and working in a remote wilderness setting
- Can balance childcare, household tasks, and occasional guest-facing responsibilities
- Understand high-end hospitality standards and can be warm, polished, discreet, and professional around guests
- Can adapt when plans change and are willing to jump in when the team needs support
- Communicate clearly and kindly
- Appreciate a small, family-run business where everyone contributes
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Requirements
- Relevant childcare experience, ideally with toddlers
- Comfort supporting a toddler through daily routines, including toileting support
- Strong household support skills, including laundry, dishes, cleaning, tidying, and organizing
- Clear criminal record check required
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- Physically able to work in an active, outdoor, hands-on environment
- Comfortable with remote living and seasonal resort life
- Ability and willingness to live on site for the season
- Professional judgment, discretion, and comfort working around family, staff, and guests
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Highly Desirable
- At least 2 years of related childcare, nannying, teaching, camp, guiding, or early childhood experience
- Emergency child care first aid and CPR
- Driver’s licence, own a vehicle
- Experience in a farm, ranch, camp, lodge, or remote setting
- Experience in hospitality or guest-facing work
- Passion for the outdoors and early childhood development
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About Siwash Lake
Siwash Lake Wilderness Resort is a luxury guest ranch and eco-lodge in British Columbia’s Cariboo region. Family owned and hosting no more than 16 guests at a time, Siwash Lake is known for luxury ranch vacations, horseback riding, wilderness adventures, sustainability, and personal, high-end hospitality.
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Siwash Lake is a founder of the Magnificent 7 Luxury Wilderness Lodges of Canada, a member of Destination Canada’s Signature Experiences Collection, Platinum certified for sustainable tourism by GreenStep, and an award-winning property recognized by Condé Nast Johansens.
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How to Apply
Please have a thorough read of the Employment section of our website at www.siwashlake.com
To apply, please download and complete the application form on the website, following all instructions and the associated checklist.
For more information please email [email protected]
Please Note: You must be legally entitled to work in Canada for this position
Pay: $27.50-$33.75 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
