Opeyemi Akintola has worked as a nanny and housemaid in the UAE for four years, gaining experience with families from different cultural backgrounds. From March 2021 to March 2023, she worked as a live-out nanny with a British family in Abu Dhabi, and from January to December 2024, she served as a live-in nanny with the Abubakar family in Dubai. Throughout her positions, she has monitored children at after-school programs, created welcoming and safe spaces to promote children's development, and consistently accommodated last-minute schedule changes.
Her comprehensive responsibilities have included providing childcare while ensuring safety and well-being, cooking nutritious meals, managing household inventory, maintaining hygiene through regular mopping and vacuuming, assisting with personal care, coordinating educational outings, managing bedtime routines, and performing cleaning, washing, ironing and laundry tasks. She has also changed and bathed babies, supervised baths for older children, maintained good communication with parents regarding children's progress, and ensured dietary requirements were met through nutritious meal preparation. She describes herself as energetic and enthusiastic with skills in multitasking, home security awareness, specialized surface cleaning, exceptional dependability, child nurturing, child development understanding, sensitivity towards children's needs, and being calm under pressure.