Midwifery Educators

As a part of establishing a cadre of midwives, the Government of India has set up National MidwiferyTraining Institutes (NMTIs) with a cascade model for capacity building across the country. The trainees from the NMTI are responsible for setting up State Midwifery Training Institutes (SMTI), to trainMidwifePractitioners in every state. Our Foundation is supporting the NMTI and SMTI at Bengaluru atVanivilas Hospital, a high caseload public healthcare facility, with state-of-the-art infrastructure.The Midwifery Educator must resonate with midwifery values and principles to become a champion toadvocate the midwifery model of care. She must undergo comprehensive training, and completecourses to become a professional midwife with international-level competencies. Upon completion ofthe requisite training, she is expected to train other healthcare personnel. The Midwifery Educator mustbe flexible in travelling to different hospitals/universities to carry out midwifery training. Job Responsibilities:1. Undergo all the training (physical and digital) that is required to become a midwife educator ofinternational quality.2. Contribute to the Learning Resource Package and the Midwifery Initiatives, in general, byproviding active and consistent feedback.3. Help / contribute to the establishment of midwifery cadre in both public and private sectors.4. Ensure timelines, goals, and objectives are met.5. Liaise with the internal team and partners as needed and ensure colleagues and supervisors areapprised of all aspects of the training.6. Contribute to other activities and take up roles / tasks as needed.7. Identify challenges / roadblocks, and look at finding solutions to ensure smooth implementationof the programme.8. Ideate, collect data, and participate in conferences and seminars.9. Must be willing to continue clinical practice, along with anchoring midwifery educationtraining.

Minimum of two years recent clinical experience in maternity care with passion towards midwifery.1. Passionate about advocating midwifery and women-centric care as well as a basic understandingof midwifery academics.2. Excellent communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex issues ina concise, compelling, and easily understandable manner.3. Excellent interpersonal skills, a proven record of handling a variety of stakeholders who are verydifferent from each other, with an ability to do conflict management.4. The role requires a person who is self-driven, has a high sense of accountability and the ability towork independently, is entrepreneurial and agile; is meticulous; and is attentive to details.5. This is a lean start-up, and the team member will be expected to contribute as an all-rounder bybeing involved in a whole array of work besides what is mentioned on the job description.

Minimum of two years recent clinical experience in maternity care