Senior Primary Teacher / Senior Primary Teacheress

Exciting Opportunity for Senior Primary Teacher

Teaching positions like this are rare. This is a unique opportunity to connect deeply with each child, thanks to our intentionally small class sizes of one teacher for every seven students. Join us in reimagining education for a rapidly evolving world while collaborating with a passionate and high-performing team of educators. Let your creative ideas flourish and bring them to life!

Role at a Glance

• Role: Senior Primary Teacher, Grades 1–3
• Location: Adliswil, Switzerland
• Start Date: August 2027, with the possibility of part-time arrangements earlier if available
• Commitment: 80–100% (additional part-time arrangements may also be possible)
• Languages: Fluent English; German proficiency is a strong plus but not required
• Experience: Substantial teaching experience, typically 7+ years
• Compensation: Typically 15–25% higher than most Zurich private schools, with salaries benchmarked to the official Zurich public teacher scale.

About Us

At Lumos School, we believe education should be both academically rigorous and joyful. We are a small, innovative German–English bilingual private school in Zürich, currently serving Grades 1–7 and expanding towards Grade 9. Our exceptionally low student-to-teacher ratio of 1:7 allows us to provide personalized learning, individual coaching, and meaningful relationships with every child.

Our educational philosophy centers around four principles: learning how to learn, combining challenge with enjoyment ("hard fun"), developing student independence, and balancing academic mastery with exploration. We embrace hands-on projects, mixed-age learning, creativity, and innovative teaching methods.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced, passionate, and creative Senior Primary Teacher to join our Grades 1–3 team. You will be responsible for curriculum planning, classroom teaching, assessment, and student development while collaborating with another experienced teacher. We encourage our educators to go beyond prescribed curricula, leveraging their expertise and creativity to design engaging and meaningful learning experiences.

Your role will be vital in developing English language and literacy skills, including phonics, reading, writing, vocabulary, and communication, while simultaneously supporting multilingual learners at various proficiency levels. Our two-teacher classroom model promotes shared planning, flexible responsibilities, constructive feedback, and genuine collaboration.

What We're Looking For

• A teaching degree and typically 7+ years of classroom experience, preferably in Grades 1–3
• Fluent English; proficiency in German is a strong advantage but not required
• Strong expertise in early primary education, literacy, phonics, and numeracy
• Experience in curriculum planning, assessment, and differentiated instruction
• Understanding of bilingual education and multilingual learners
• Excellent classroom organization and management skills
• Confidence in working with mixed-age groups and personalized learning approaches
• Experience with Montessori, project-based learning, or other innovative educational methods is advantageous
• Familiarity with Swiss Lehrplan 21 is helpful but not essential
• Eligibility to work in Switzerland

Who You Are

We are looking for someone who genuinely loves teaching young children and understands their need for warmth, encouragement, structure, movement, and play. You are confident, creative, organized, and proactive. While you enjoy taking responsibility, you are equally comfortable sharing ideas, decisions, and ownership in the classroom. You value collaboration, communicate clearly, welcome feedback, and continuously seek ways to improve your teaching.

Most importantly, you are eager to help children reach their potential while contributing to a thoughtful, ambitious, and growing school.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries: Typically 15–25% above most Zürich private schools, benchmarked against the Zürich public teacher salary scale
• 16+ weeks of school holidays
• Significant protected planning time
• Relocation support where needed
• Exceptionally low student-to-teacher ratio of 1:7
• Professional autonomy and freedom to develop creative teaching approaches
• Supportive leadership and highly experienced international colleagues
• Engaged families who share our educational values
• A collaborative, innovative, and forward-thinking working environment
• Opportunities to contribute ideas and help shape the future of our school

Join Us

At Lumos, we believe exceptional teachers make exceptional schools. We seek individuals who view teaching as more than a profession, bringing experience, imagination, warmth, and genuine enthusiasm to the classroom.

If you believe children learn best when inspired, challenged, and supported, we invite you to apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.