We run family office personal assistant recruitment for UHNW principals and private offices where privacy, continuity, and lifestyle execution matter.
In this market, CVs converge quickly. What separates the best is judgement under pressure and pace without noise.
Personal Assistant Recruitment Agency
We run discreet, controlled searches for PAs, including replacement and transition hires where confidentiality is non-negotiable.
When to hire a Personal Assistant in a family office
Hire when the principal’s time and privacy are being lost to coordination, follow-ups, and avoidable interruptions.
Typical triggers:
- Two or more people are “helping” with diary, travel, expenses, or logistics and errors are creeping in.
- Multiple properties and travel patterns require constant orchestration.
- Personal information is handled informally across too many parties.
- Household and supplier coordination is happening, but nobody owns it end-to-end.
- The principal is still triaging details that should be filtered and resolved upstream.
If you want out-of-hours responsiveness, define escalation rules, not vague expectations.
Personal Assistant vs Executive Assistant vs Family Office Assistant vs Chief of Staff
- Personal Assistant: lifestyle execution and personal continuity, often with diary authority.
- Executive Assistant: business cadence, stakeholder gating, executive workflow.
- Family Office Assistant: shared admin cadence, packs, documentation hygiene.
- Chief of Staff: priorities and delivery cadence across workstreams.
If you need both EA and PA coverage, we usually split the lanes or design a layered model.
For comparisons:
Core responsibilities
- Diary ownership, prioritisation, and gatekeeping.
- Travel planning, coordination, and contingencies.
- Personal administration: payments, renewals, records, key documents.
- Vendor and household coordination with clean follow-through.
- Relationship handling with discretion and controlled communication.
- Light office support where it directly protects the principal’s time.
What great looks like
- Anticipation, not just responsiveness.
- Controlled discretion under social pressure.
- Calm triage when three things collide.
- Clean record-keeping and follow-through habits.
- Confidence to say “no” politely, with options.
Compensation context
Compensation depends on coverage, travel, and authority. We share ranges and drivers once the working pattern and boundaries are clear.
Next steps
If you are hiring a Personal Assistant for a family office, we can help you lock boundaries, authority, and coverage before we approach the market.
Contact us and we will respond discreetly.
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