Job Description

Location: Allentown, PA

Rate: $16-$20 per hour

Job Summary:

We are seeking a warm, reliable, and nurturing nanny to join our family and provide quality care for our two young children (a toddler turning 2 in November 2025 and a newborn expected in November 2025).

The nanny will provide attentive, structured, and compassionate care in our home, primarily when our children are unable to attend daycare due to illness, daycare closures, or during select evenings and weekends.

Hours: Monday–Friday, ideally 7:30 AM – 5 PM with occasional weekend and evening hours.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creating a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment for the children.
• Reliably and predictably attending work and being punctual.
• Safely bathing and dressing infants and young children.
• Changing diapers and potty-training as age appropriate.
• Disciplining the children according to the family’s preferred parenting style.
• Engaging in indoor and outdoor play.
• Laundering children’s clothes, bedding, etc.
• Preparing food and feeding the children.
• Reading to the children.
• Organizing bedrooms/toys.
• Administering medicine with parents’ consent, if necessary.
• Performing light housekeeping such as tidying up.
• Performing several childcare and childcare-related tasks at once.
• Engaging in physical activities with children over uneven and various terrain.
• Preventing harm to the children, including but not limited to the ability to take swift action to
• prevent harm or remove children from potentially harmful circumstances.
• Lifting 35 lbs.
• Using hands and fingers to handle or feel.
• Standing/bending/stretching/reaching/kneeling/crawling, etc.
• Working with and caring for pets (1 dog, needs to be let out into the back yard periodically).
• Maintaining logs for the parents.
• Safely and legally operating a motor vehicle to drive children in rare circumstances. Nanny must
• possess their own vehicle.

Required Qualifications:

• Have a High School Diploma, GED or suitable equivalent experience.
• Be at least 21 years of age.
• Be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Have 3 plus years of childcare experience, including infant care, or related professional work experience (such as daycare, teaching, etc.)
• Successful completion of, or willingness to complete, Mandated Reporter Training and Car Seat Safety Training.
• Active certification for CPR and First Aid.
• Willing to complete a background check demonstrating suitability for caring for young children without supervision.
• Had a recent (within last 12 months) physical with a physician and the ability to have a physician complete the Child Care Staff Health Assessment. For those without insurance, please consult  this list of free clinics in Lehigh County .
• Valid and clean driver's license and car insurance.
• Ability to provide proof of current vaccinations including but not limited to Td or Tdap, MMR, HepA, HepB, PCV, influenza. COVID vaccination series and boosters are recommended but not required.
• Proficient knowledge of home safety.
• Possess sound moral character and kind disposition suitable for caring for children of all ages without supervision.
• Handle age-appropriate care and responsibilities of children including: diapering, toilet training, assisting with homework, supervising outdoor play, transporting children to and from school, and taking children to age appropriate outings/activities.
• Possess valid driver’s license, with a clean driving record demonstrating proficient driving skills, including comfort driving in snow. A vehicle with car seats is provided for the Nanny to use during working hours, unless the Nanny strongly prefers use of their own vehicle.
• Ability to work the hours outlined in the job description.
• Affinity for pets

To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and availability.

Note: Because of the thorough nature of our vetting process, Indeed-generated resumes will not be accepted. We ask that you please submit a resume you’ve created yourself. If you submit an Indeed-generated resume, your application will not be considered.

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Disclaimer

This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the Nanny. This job description is subject to change as the child/children grow and those changes may be made orally or in writing by the family.

This is a safety sensitive position that requires driving/operating a motor vehicle and the responsibility for the safety of others. The presence of any amount of marijuana in a driver’s system is considered Driving Under the Influence in Pennsylvania. Therefore, you should not apply for this position if you cannot successfully pass a drug screening, regardless of prescription or card-holder status.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or disability status.

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