About the Opportunity
We are seeking an exceptional part-time Private Educator, Learning Coach & Caregiver to join our family and provide highly personalized educational, developmental, and caregiving support for our 10-year-old daughter.
This is a unique opportunity to work one-on-one with a bright, curious, creative, and highly capable learner with a 2e profile (gifted + AuDHD — Autism Level 1 + ADHD). Traditional educational environments have not fully met her needs, and we are building a personalized model around her strengths, interests, neurodivergent profile, and overall well-being.
This is not a traditional teaching or nanny position.
The right person will blend the roles of educator, executive functioning coach, mentor, caregiver, and developmental support partner. Depending on the day, that may mean working through an academic project, helping organize and initiate schoolwork, supporting a difficult transition, practicing independent living skills, incorporating OT-informed sensory or motor activities, heading to a museum or outdoor activity, or simply providing thoughtful and engaged care.
We are looking for someone who understands that learning, development, and caregiving are deeply interconnected.
Our goal is to help our daughter grow academically while also building confidence, independence, emotional regulation, executive functioning, self-advocacy, and the practical skills she needs to navigate the world successfully.
Key ResponsibilitiesBuild a Deep Understanding of the Child
- Develop a trusting, supportive relationship built on respect, collaboration, consistency, and psychological safety.
- Understand her interests, strengths, motivations, learning style, sensory profile, executive functioning challenges, and emotional needs.
- Recognize behavior as communication and use collaborative, relationship-based approaches rather than compliance-based models.
- Establish individualized academic, executive functioning, developmental, and independence goals.
- Partner closely with parents and outside providers to create a coordinated, whole-child approach.
Provide Thoughtful, Developmentally Supportive Caregiving
This position includes a meaningful caregiving component in addition to educational support.
- Provide engaged, attentive care during scheduled hours, including periods when structured academic instruction is not taking place.
- Help create predictable, supportive routines around learning, activities, meals, transitions, downtime, and daily responsibilities.
- Support age-appropriate independence with organization, personal belongings, routines, preparation for activities, and other daily living skills.
- Accompany her to activities, appointments, outings, classes, and community experiences as needed.
- Help navigate transitions, frustration, overwhelm, and unexpected changes calmly and constructively.
- Encourage independence rather than automatically doing things for her, while recognizing when additional scaffolding or support is needed.
- Create opportunities for play, creativity, movement, outdoor time, hobbies, and genuine connection.
Design & Deliver Individualized Learning
- Design and implement customized learning experiences aligned with her interests, strengths, academic needs, and long-term goals.
- Provide instruction and support across core academic subjects, including literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, writing, and technology.
- Create interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, and project-based learning experiences that promote curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, and communication.
- Incorporate educational technology and AI tools thoughtfully to personalize and enrich learning.
- Adapt instruction continuously based on observation, progress, engagement, and emotional readiness.
- Balance appropriate academic challenge with flexibility around how, when, and where learning happens.
Develop Executive Functioning & Independence
- Coach executive functioning skills, including planning, organization, prioritization, time management, working memory, task initiation, and self-monitoring.
- Break complex or overwhelming tasks into manageable steps.
- Develop visual schedules, checklists, routines, organizational systems, and other scaffolds as appropriate.
- Teach self-advocacy, resilience, flexible problem-solving, and strategies for asking for help.
- Gradually reduce scaffolding as skills and confidence develop.
- Help generalize skills beyond academic work into everyday life.
Incorporate OT-Informed Developmental Support
While this role does not replace the work of a licensed occupational therapist, we would like the educator/caregiver to understand and reinforce OT-informed strategies and goals in everyday activities.
In collaboration with our daughter’s occupational therapist and other providers, this may include:
- Supporting sensory regulation and recognizing signs of sensory overload or dysregulation.
- Incorporating appropriate movement and sensory activities throughout the day.
- Supporting fine-motor skills, handwriting, keyboarding, visual-motor integration, and other functional skills as appropriate.
- Helping develop body awareness, coordination, motor planning, and gross-motor confidence through everyday activities.
- Supporting daily living and independence skills, including organization, routines, self-care, meal preparation, and management of personal belongings.
- Helping her identify and communicate sensory needs and learn strategies that work for her.
- Creating an environment and schedule that proactively supports regulation rather than only responding after dysregulation occurs.
- Consistently reinforcing strategies recommended by her occupational therapist across home, learning, and community environments.
Candidates with formal occupational therapy, occupational therapy assistant, sensory integration, or related developmental experience are particularly encouraged to apply.
Support a Neurodivergent Learner
- Apply evidence-informed instructional and behavioral strategies for children with Autism, ADHD, anxiety, executive functioning differences, and related neurodivergent profiles.
- Understand or be willing to learn approaches responsive to a PDA profile, minimizing unnecessary demands while maintaining meaningful expectations and opportunities for growth.
- Support emotional regulation, sensory needs, social communication, interoception, and flexible thinking.
- Avoid shame-, punishment-, or compliance-driven approaches.
- Help her understand her own learning profile, strengths, needs, and neurodivergent identity in a positive and empowering way.
- Create an environment where neurodiversity is understood, respected, and celebrated.
Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom
We do not believe learning needs to happen primarily at a desk.
- Plan experiential learning opportunities connecting academic concepts with the real world.
- Incorporate museums, outdoor education, nature, travel, entrepreneurship, community engagement, STEM experiences, arts, cooking, building, and other authentic learning opportunities.
- Use Miami and the surrounding community as an extension of the learning environment.
- Follow her interests and look for opportunities to turn genuine curiosity into deeper learning.
- Encourage creativity, exploration, and a lifelong love of learning.
Collaborate With Parents & Providers
- Communicate regularly with parents about progress, challenges, observations, and emerging needs.
- Collaborate with occupational therapists, therapists, psychiatrists, executive functioning coaches, and other specialists.
- Help translate recommendations from specialists into practical strategies that can be consistently used in everyday life.
- Maintain appropriate documentation of learning goals, progress, successful strategies, and areas requiring additional support.
- Participate in periodic planning conversations to ensure alignment across academic, developmental, therapeutic, and family goals.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for an exceptional individual with meaningful professional experience supporting neurodivergent children.
Strong candidates will possess:
- Bachelor’s degree in Special Education, Education, Child Development, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- Demonstrated professional experience supporting autistic children and/or children with ADHD, anxiety, executive functioning differences, or other neurodivergent profiles.
- Experience providing individualized educational, developmental, or therapeutic support.
- Strong understanding of executive functioning development and practical intervention strategies.
- Comfort providing both educational support and hands-on caregiving as part of an integrated role.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with parents and multidisciplinary providers.
- Demonstrated commitment to creating an LGBTQ+-affirming and inclusive environment for children and families.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
- Emotional maturity, patience, flexibility, warmth, and excellent judgment.
- Ability to remain calm, supportive, and constructive when a child is frustrated, anxious, overwhelmed, or dysregulated.
- A growth mindset and genuine commitment to continuous learning.
- Willingness to undergo all required background screenings and employment verification.
Preferred Experience
Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable:
- Occupational therapy, occupational therapy assistant work, or implementation of OT-designed programs
- Sensory processing and sensory regulation strategies
- Executive functioning coaching
- Homeschool, microschool, or independent school environments
- Gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) learners
- Autism + ADHD profiles
- Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), or willingness to learn evidence-informed approaches
- Anxiety and emotional regulation
- Project-based and inquiry-based learning
- Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Expeditionary Learning, Acton Academy, or other learner-centered educational models
- Educational technology and AI-assisted learning
- Portfolio and performance-based assessment
- Outdoor, experiential, or community-based education
We are open to candidates coming from different professional backgrounds. An exceptional special educator, occupational therapist/OTA, learning specialist, executive functioning coach, or experienced caregiver with significant neurodivergent education experience could potentially be a strong fit.
Schedule & Flexibility
This is a part-time position, with the specific weekly schedule and number of hours to be determined based on the right candidate and our family’s needs.
The primary work location is our home in Miami, Florida, with occasional travel to Boston, Massachusetts and potentially other destinations.
The role may include a combination of structured educational time, caregiving, community activities, appointments, experiential learning, and developmental support.
Some flexibility around hours will be important, although we also want to establish a predictable core schedule for both the educator and our daughter.
Occasional travel with our family may be requested to provide continuity of education and care during extended trips. All required travel expenses and accommodations will be provided, with additional compensation for travel expectations as appropriate.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation: TBD, based on experience, qualifications, agreed-upon weekly hours, and scope of responsibilities.
For the right candidate, we are prepared to offer a highly competitive compensation package.
Additional benefits may include:
- Paid holidays and vacation based on agreed-upon schedule
- Professional development allowance
- Mileage reimbursement for required local travel
- All expenses covered for required family travel
- Additional compensation associated with overnight or extended travel, as applicable
What Success Looks Like
The successful educator/caregiver will help our daughter:
- Feel safe, understood, respected, and genuinely connected.
- Develop confidence, resilience, and independence.
- Strengthen executive functioning skills.
- Make meaningful academic progress while maintaining a genuine love of learning.
- Better understand and manage her sensory and emotional needs.
- Develop practical strategies for regulation that she can increasingly use independently.
- Strengthen daily living and age-appropriate independence skills.
- Develop a positive understanding of her neurodivergent identity.
- Build self-advocacy and problem-solving skills.
- Discover passions and interests that inspire lifelong curiosity.
- Become increasingly capable of navigating learning and everyday life with confidence.
Our Philosophy
We are not looking to recreate school at home, nor are we looking for traditional childcare.
We are creating a personalized ecosystem of learning, development, and support designed around our daughter as an individual.
We believe some of the most meaningful learning happens through relationships, real-world experiences, everyday responsibilities, creativity, exploration, and the gradual development of independence.
The right person will become a trusted mentor, educator, caregiver, and partner in her development. They will understand when to teach, when to coach, when to scaffold, when to challenge, when to give space, and when simply to be a calm and supportive presence.
Above all, we are looking for someone who genuinely enjoys working with neurodivergent children and believes every child deserves the opportunity to develop into the strongest, most confident, and most authentic version of themselves.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of all applicable background checks and employment verification, consistent with federal and applicable state law.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome qualified applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, experience, and the ability to perform the essential functions of the position, without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Work Location: In person
