The BBC World Service Languages Future Voices Trainee Scheme 2025 for Aspiring Journalists

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Application Deadline: January 26, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 BBC World Service Languages Future Voices Trainee Scheme. BBC World Service Languages is searching for proficient, individuals with a incapacity to hitch the Future Voices trainee scheme. This a four-month entry degree paid program provides a novel alternative to achieve hands-on expertise in journalism and kickstart your profession at one of many world’s main broadcasters.

Are you an individual with a incapacity, a fluent speaker of English and any one in every of these World Service languages; French, Gahuza Swahili, Portuguese, Arabic, Amharic , Tigrinya, Oromo, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Tamasheq, Dzarma, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Spanish, Malagasy or Dholuo?

Requirements

• Aspiring journalists  with a incapacity who’re simply beginning out or in the beginning of their profession and are enthusiastic about discovering and telling tales for a world viewers.
• You needs to be curious in regards to the world and fluent in one of many BBC World Service Languages talked about above.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this chance, you should:

• Be registered as an individual with a incapacity with the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. 
• Be aged 18 or over when the scheme begins in April 2025.
• Be legally allowed to work in Kenya full time
• Be fluent in English and one of many languages we’ve got listed on this advert.
• Be accessible from April – July 2025.

Application Procedure:

Once you start your application you will have to reply our eligibility questions.  This will probably be adopted up by way of electronic mail with a sequence of questions to grasp your curiosity in journalism and creating content material. You needs to be able to:

• Submit a information story concept
• Answer just a few questions by way of video recording primarily based in your motivations for making use of and your ardour for this space. This will probably be requested in each English and your second language.
• Share with us a minimum of one merchandise of journalistic content material you’ve created – this may very well be a social media publish or one thing revealed on a digital platform, in print, TV, radio or podcast.  

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the BBC World Service Languages Future Voices Trainee Scheme