BBC World Service Languages Future Voices Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Are you at the start of your profession and have what it takes to be a journalist on the BBC? Are you an individual with a incapacity, a fluent speaker of English and any one among these World Service languages; French, Gahuza Swahili, Portuguese, Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Tamasheq, Dzarma, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Spanish, Malagasy or Dholuo?

BBC World Service Languages is searching for gifted, folks with a incapacity to affix their Future Voices trainee scheme. This a 4-month entry degree paid program affords a novel OPPORTUNITY to achieve arms-on expertise in journalism and kickstart your profession at one of many world’s main broadcasters.

Benefits

The scheme offers you:

• Skills and coaching to be a multi-platform journalist.
• First-hand expertise in BBC World Service News groups.
• A private mentor to assist your journey.
• A wage all through the coaching.
• An merchandise of content material you’ll be able to assist construct a portfolio with.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this chance, it’s essential to:

• 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 listed.
• Be obtainable from April – July 2025.

Application

You might want to add a CV however the principle factor they’re on the lookout for is ardour. Once you start your application you have to to reply the eligibility questions. This might be adopted up by way of e-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 a couple of questions by way of video recording based mostly in your motivations for making use of and your ardour for this space. This might be requested in each English and your second language.
• Share no less than one merchandise of journalistic content material you’ve created – this could possibly be a social media put up or one thing printed on a digital platform, in print, TV, radio or podcast.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Future Voices – Nairobi.