EOI: Job Sharing Programme 2026 – in-person event

EOI: Job Sharing Programme 2026 – in-person event

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Please note by registering your interest you are NOT applying for a course.  This is to gauge the interest of crew in attending this type of training.  We would also like to hear what elements you would like to see in this area so that we know the training is meeting crew needs as directly expressed by the crew.

Proposed Training: EOI - Job Sharing Programme 2026 – in-person event

Proposed dates of delivery: Sat Aug 29th , Sat Sept 5th, or Sat Oct 3rd 2026

Duration: 1 day

Cost: Free

Venue: Dublin, in-person, venue TBC

Course Provider: National Talent Academies, Raising Films Ireland, and Reeltime Media.

Event Proposal:

The National Talent Academies and Raising Films Ireland are delighted to be partnering with Screen Guilds of Ireland to propose an in-person event as part of our Job-Share Programme. The programme would be designed to empower employers and employees to make job-sharing a reality in the Irish screen industry.

We are keen to incorporate elements into the event that the crew and employers would like. On the link below to register interest, you will have the opportunity to feed in and shape the event.

Proposed Event Elements:

Role Analysis - an opportunity to reflect on your own role and methods of working to ensure that finding and working with a job share partner is a considered and effective experience.

Finding Job Share Partners – create pitches to make contacts in a supportive environment with other crew interested in job sharing.

Building a Partnership for a Successful Job Share – the practicalities of managing your job share.  Learn the tools, strategies, and confidence needed to develop and maintain an effective job-share partnership in the screen industry. The focus is on creating role-specific agreements, leveraging technology for handovers, learning from case studies, and gaining insights into pitching job-share arrangements to employers.

Networking, Panels, and Q&A – talk to your peers to share insights, concerns, and strategies.  There will be an open floor for questions, allowing attendees to seek advice and guidance from Job Share partners, productions facilitating Job Shares, the National Talent Academies, Raising Films Ireland, and Reeltime Media.

Next Steps – receive guidance on the next steps for establishing job-sharing arrangements and hear about our workplace support initiative.

Participant Profile:

This in-person event would be aimed at crew and employees in the screen industry who are looking for information on how job sharing can work on productions and support a better work-life balance.

Express your Interest Procedure:

Please register your interest online at this LINK by 2 pm, Monday, 27th July.

For technical difficulties with the online system, please email brian.murphy@nationaltalentacademies.ie

Film & TV Crew Academy East courses are open to all regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

Tutor Profiles:

Raising Films Ireland

Raising Films Ireland was launched during a Screen Skills Ireland Screen Talk webinar with Raising Films UK founder Hope Dickson Leach and Dr Susan Liddy.

We are a not-for-profit organisation that aims to challenge, at a structural level, the demands the film and television industry makes on parents and carers. The organisation aims to provide information, education and solutions with a focus on:

  • Enabling financial assistance for child and elder care.
  • Encouraging industry-wide adoption of flexible working and access to child and/or elder care.
  • Formalising a way to combat discrimination.
  • Normalising conversations around caring commitments with employers.

Reeltime Media

We believe in Good Work: flexibility, fair pay and fair hours. We work with the TV and film industry to make productions work better for everyone.

Our work is grounded in research and informed by decades of industry experience. ReelTime’s job‑sharing Co‑Directors Michelle Reynolds and Rowan Aust met when they were Co‑Directors of Share My Telly Job(SMTJ). 

We work across industry and academia and our recent collaborations include: ScreenSkills; the Screen Industry Growth Network (SIGN) at the University of York; the Universities of Bournemouth and Nottingham; Screen Alliance North. We have contributed to work with Bectu, Ofcom, Channel 4, Channel 5, Netflix, the DCMS and sit on the Coalition for Change.