!!! Sought. Literary Assistant (cum Miss Money Penny, cum Bree Van de Kamp, cum Archetypal Muse, cum Lara Croft) !!!

Ok, so such a titular caravan and train of employer desiderata needs a little explanation.

My name is Eros de Grey.

For the past decade I worked as the owner and MD of a London based international education consultancy.

In early in September this year I uprooted to the new life of a full time novelist and hotelier, working from an idyllic villa in the elysian town of Taormina, Sicily.

I am now seeking an fresh minded and charismatic literary assistant to join me in Taormina for the international adventure of researching and writing the greatest love story ever told.

As well as my literary assistant, you will need to triple as a sedulous personal assistant and glamorous hostess managing the social events calendar for a busy Sicilian villa.

Whilst most of your work will be will in Taormina — long beloved as one of the prettiest, most cultured towns in the Mediterranean — you will travel often in Sicily, farther Italy, internationally and also back to the UK.

The role will best suit, although although applications are certainly not limited to, an arts, classics, humanities or languages graduate, who feels as happy feeling her way through a page of the Song of Solomon, as mooching with me through a Sicilian rose garden testing my knowledge of ancient and voluptuous vocabulary, as slipping into a cocktail dress for a revival Grecian dinner party or as tugging on a pair of hiking boots for a day’s march through the tombs of Etruria.

You will be a sort of companionable Gwenth Paltrow to Tony Stark — only except that you will have charisma.

Sorry, Gwyneth!

EXAMPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:



~ Researching and inviting potential interviewees

~ Preparing interview questions

~ Historical research in mythology, classics, literature, philosophy and analytical psychology

~ Technical work on the etymology and history of the English language

~ Proofreading & editing

~ Handing personal correspondence

~ Organising calendars

~ Preparing travel itineraries

~ Occasionally walking two puppies: one akita and one husky

~ Other miscellany



REQUIREMENTS:



~ You must, due to the literary demands of the work, be a native English speaker.

~ Excellent hostess skills

~ Willing to travel within Italy and abroad

~ Available for a minimum of two to three years



PACKAGE:



~ £25,000 to £35,000 per year (depending upon experience) and rising each year

~ Highly flexible working hours

~ Generous holiday allowance

~ Beautiful town and villa in which to work

~ Extensive Italian and international travel opportunities



APPLYING:

To be received asap:



~ The position will be to start by November, 2015.

~ Initial interviews will be by phone and then second interviews face to face in either London or Taormina.

~ Please send your CV, one professional and one informal photo, and a fresh, non generic cover letter expressing why the position appeals and why you might appeal to it.