Company aims to ensure rights based, respectful, dignified, timely, and
evidence-based maternity care. Our areas of focus are: capacity building of healthcare workers at scale,
and the establishment of a professional midwifery cadre in India.
Aastrika SPHERE is a comprehensive capacity building programme, consisting of both a collaborative
digital learning platform as well as in-person training for different stakeholders in the healthcare field
using multiple learning methodologies. This is implemented through alliances with like-minded
development partners, healthcare sector experts, and various educational institutions.
Aastrika has several initiatives to establish professional midwives as a prominent and successful cadre
in India. These include establishment of a Bangalore-based Midwife-Led Care Unit (MLCU), support
for the Government of India’s Nurse Practitioner in Midwifery (NPM) initiative, programs to increase
awareness and demand for respectful maternity care, and advocacy work to promote midwifery.
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 understanding
of midwifery academics.
2. Excellent communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex issues in
a concise, compelling, and easily understandable manner.
3. Excellent interpersonal skills, a proven record of handling a variety of stakeholders who are very
different 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 to
work 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 by
being involved in a whole array of work besides what is mentioned on the job description.
Bachelor degree
Minimum of two years recent clinical experience in maternity care