Now hiring cleaners in Zurich & Zug — Swiss employment contract, AHV paid
Now hiring cleaners in Zurich & Zug — Swiss employment contract, AHV paid
Do the part of this work you actually love — being with children — and let us carry the rest. Rundil employs you on a Swiss contract, pays your AHV, BVG and UVG, insures you, invoices the family and sorts the schedule. You choose your days, we assign you to families near you, and you keep the same children week after week.
Rundil hires English-speaking nannies across Switzerland on permanent Swiss employment contracts. You are employed by Rundil — not by the family and not as a self-employed contractor — so your AHV, BVG and UVG contributions, accident insurance and liability cover are all paid by us, and you receive one reliable monthly payslip instead of chasing several families for cash. You choose the days and hours you want to work, we assign you to families close to where you live, and you stay with the same children week after week. Your hourly pay is agreed with you individually when you apply. Most nannies are assigned to their first family within days of completing onboarding and document checks.
Every Rundil assignment is in a family's own home, in English, with children you get to know properly. Tell us on the application form which of these suits your life — most nannies do a mix.
The heart of what we do. Fixed days each week with one family, so you build a real relationship with the children and know exactly what your month looks like. Around eight hours a week with a family is the usual rhythm, and many nannies hold two or three families.
The 15:30 to 19:00 gap that Swiss school days leave behind. School or Hort pick-up, snack, homework supervision, activities and the run-up to bedtime. Ideal if you study, have your own school-age children, or want your mornings free.
Short-notice, out-of-hours, weekend, school-holiday and emergency care for families we already look after. Fewer fixed commitments and more variety — the right fit if your availability moves week to week.
Supporting parents through the steep first year — feeds, naps, routine, and a calm second pair of hands in the house. Experience with babies and a settled, unhurried manner matter more here than anything on paper.
Swiss school holidays are long and working parents run out of cover. Full days of activities, outings and play across Sportferien, spring, summer and autumn breaks — concentrated blocks of work rather than a weekly commitment.
If you hold a degree in education or childcare, or primary-curriculum experience, say so on the form. It opens our Expert-tier work with primary-age children, and we can also introduce you to Rundil Tutoring if you would like academic hours alongside childcare.
Most nanny work in Switzerland is either cash-in-hand or dressed up as self-employment. Both leave you with no AHV record, no accident cover, no paid holiday and no protection if a family simply stops calling. Rundil is a managed childcare service and the legal employer of every nanny we assign — the family buys a service from us, and we employ you.
Worth understanding before you accept anything. The difference is not the work — it is who carries the employment.
Warmth with children comes first — it is the one thing we cannot train. Everything below is what we check alongside it, and most of it is discussed rather than demanded.
Three steps from the form to your first family. No CV template to fight with, no recruitment fee, and a real person at every stage.
The nanny application form asks about your experience, the ages you are comfortable with, your availability and your permit. It takes around ten minutes and you can finish it on your phone.
We interview you, call your references and verify your criminal-record extract and right to work. This is also where your hourly pay and your weekly pattern are agreed with you.
We assign you to a family near you whose needs fit your availability, introduce you both, and you start. Most nannies are working within days of finishing onboarding.
You tell us the days and hours you want, and we only ever assign you work inside them. If your availability changes — a course, a move, a new baby of your own — you tell us and we adjust. A regular weekly commitment of around eight hours with a family works best for the child, but nothing is imposed on you.
Every family comes to you already briefed, with the hours, the ages and the expectations agreed in writing before you meet. If something goes wrong — a difficult conversation, a schedule clash, an accident in the home — you message us and we deal with the family. You look after the children; we look after everything around them.
We employ nannies in every canton and assign you to families close to where you live. Demand is heaviest in Zürich and Zug, but a strong application anywhere in Switzerland is worth sending.
Verified reviews left by the Swiss families our nannies look after. This is the standard you would be joining — and the reason our nannies stay.
We have had a wonderful experience with Rundil Childcare. Our child felt comfortable from the beginning, and the communication with us has always been clear and reassuring. It has made managing our weekly schedule so much easier.
Rundil helped us find reliable support for our two children after school. The childcare has been warm, attentive and dependable, and the children genuinely look forward to the time they spend together. We are very pleased with the service.
We needed occasional childcare that could fit around our changing work commitments. The process was straightforward, and the support we received was professional and caring. It is reassuring to know we have someone dependable when we need help.
Search for nanny jobs in Switzerland and almost everything you find falls into one of three buckets: a classifieds board where families post directly, a babysitting marketplace that takes a cut of every booking, or a placement agency that introduces you to a household and then steps back. All three end the same way — you become the family's employee, or you are asked to invoice as a self-employed nanny. The hourly figure can look attractive, and then the AHV, the pension contributions, the accident cover and the unpaid holiday come out of it.
Rundil works the other way round. We are a managed childcare service, and the legal employer of every nanny we assign. Families purchase childcare from us; we employ the nanny. That single structural difference is what puts a permanent Swiss contract, paid social security, insurance and a reliable monthly payslip behind the job — and it is why our nannies do not spend their evenings chasing a family for last month's hours.
Most of our nannies hold one to three ongoing families and work the days they chose themselves. A typical assignment runs around eight hours a week with one family, which is the rhythm that suits a child best: enough contact to be a familiar, steady presence, not so much that the parents disappear. Some nannies build a full week from three families; others take a single after-school family alongside their studies or their own children's school day. Sessions run for a minimum of two hours, always in the family's own home, always in English.
The work is real childcare rather than supervision: play, meals, routine, the school or Hort run, homework at the kitchen table, outings when the weather allows. What you will not do is argue about money, write invoices, chase late payment, or negotiate what happens when a family cancels. Those conversations belong to us, and we keep them.
Rundil places nannies across all of Switzerland, and demand is heaviest in Zürich and Zug, where international families relocate for work with no extended family nearby and a real need for English-speaking care. Winterthur, Luzern, Basel, Geneva and Lausanne all carry steady demand too. Because we assign you to families close to where you live, a strong application from a smaller commune is still worth sending — we would rather hold a good nanny for the right family nearby than send anyone across a canton twice a day.
A great deal of childcare in Switzerland is arranged informally, and nobody applying to us needs to feel awkward about it. It is simply worth knowing what it costs. Cash work leaves no AHV record, and missing contribution years cannot be bought back later — they surface decades on, in a smaller pension. There is no accident cover if you are hurt on the job, and no liability cover if something is damaged while a child is in your care. Moving onto a proper contract does not change the work you do. It changes what stands behind it.
The nanny application form asks about your experience, the ages you are comfortable with, your availability and your permit. It takes about ten minutes, you can complete it on your phone, and a person reads every submission. If you would rather ask a question before you apply, message us on WhatsApp and we will answer honestly — including about pay. We are also hiring tutors and cleaners on the same employment terms.
A permanent Swiss contract, AHV, BVG and UVG paid for you, travel supported, hours you choose and families near your home. Rundil employs you — you simply look after the children.
