Poland Country Programme Trainee

Lie Detectors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, age or any other status protected by applicable law.

Lie Detectors is looking for a Brussels-based trainee with excellent Polish language skills to help build our media literacy programme. Blue Book Trainees are encouraged to apply.

Are you a recent graduate looking for meaningful work in a Brussels-based traineeship? Here’s a chance to join our international award-winning team and tackle disinformation in Europe. We are seeking a trainee who will help us promote news literacy and critical thinking through our work with journalists, schools, researchers and policymakers.

You must have drive, an eye for detail and be fluent in Polish and English. This full-time traineeship runs for four months, with a possibility of extending to six months and, at times, career progression. Numerous trainees stay at Lie Detectors as full-time employees.

The Poland Programme Trainee will be responsible for supporting Lie Detectors’ operations and contributing to the smooth running of the country programme in Poland.

The role:

In detail, the function and role of the Poland Programme Trainee includes, but is not limited to supporting the organisation of training workshops and interventions for journalists, teachers and schoolchildren. This includes:

  • Supporting the organising of training interventions via sending template emails, reaching out to new teachers and journalists

  • Entering and processing completed questionnaires to gauge impact and assure quality

  • Maintaining an orderly database, updating contacts, payment processes, etc.

  • Supporting event planning by assisting in research of event locations, organising get-togethers with our journalist community, catering for our training activities with journalists and teachers, etc.

  • Independently conducting online searches in Polish and English

  • Participating in meetings and writing minutes

  • Administrative support where necessary

  • Communication support where needed

Responsibilities:

Meaningful and impactful work on a globally significant topic.

  • An exciting international workplace with a dynamic, motivated team

  • Opportunities to learn new skills and to learn about the fields of journalism, education policy and media literacy

  • A full-time, paid traineeship of at least 4 months, under the general conditions for Condition d’immersion professionelle (CIP) by Bruxelles Formation

We offer:

This traineeship is based in Lie Detector’s international Brussels office – Mundo Madou Building next to Madou Underground station. 

Location:

If you’re the right person for this role, email us at jobs@lie-detectors.org  with the subject “TRAINEE POLAND PROGRAMME” today!  

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Lie Detectors is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.   

We strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance across the team. 

About Lie Detectors:  

Our award-winning organisation aims to turn schoolchildren in Europe aged 10-15 into powerful critical thinkers in a digital world increasingly populated by distorted facts, disinformation and polarisation online, empowering them to understand news media, make informed choices and resist peer pressure as they assemble their worldview.  

  • We work to turn working journalists and selected media experts into active participants in the drive for news literacy, creating positive contact between journalists and children as well as their teachers.  

  • Our training sessions attune teachers to digital media risks, to the tools available to counter it, and to the benefits and relevance of further classroom discussion of a topic often relegated to IT lessons and after-school clubs.  

  • Trained journalists working with Lie Detectors create memorable classroom experiences and lasting awareness of children’s own participation in social networks; this engagement propels pupils into ongoing conversations about news consumption and verifying news.  

  • We strive to provide a link between schools and the very best existing news literacy and news verification initiatives.  

  • We seek to influence educational policy-making through continued public speaking in varied fora, advocating for the systematic uptake and inclusion of news literacy in the curricula of teacher-training colleges and classrooms across Europe, as urged by Unesco and OECD. As part of this remit, Lie Detectors has served as a member of the EU’s High Level Group on Fake News and the EU Expert Group on Digital Literacy, advising the European Commission on how to tackle the spread and socio-economic impact of disinformation.    

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