Job Share Employers Info Session

Course Name: Job Share Employers Info Session

Date of delivery: Wednesday 17th June 2026

Duration: 12:30pm – 1:30pm (1 hour)

Cost: Free

Venue: Online

Facilitator(s): Reeltime Media and Raising Films Ireland

Course Profile:

The National Talent Academies, alongside Raising Films Ireland and Screen Guilds of Ireland, are delighted to be continuing their partnership on a Job Sharing Programme for the Screen Sector.  

This lunch & learn info session is the first in the series for 2026, and is designed for employers in the screen sector who are interested in knowing more about facilitating job sharing on their productions.

Job sharing is a flexible way of working that allows employees a better work/life balance whilst also ensuring the sustainability of the industry, retaining talent and experience that might be otherwise lost.

What the session will cover:

• Who are ReelTime Media? Evolution of the company, including Share My Telly Job, the ScreenSkills HETV Job-sharing programme, our research and our focus on Good Work.
• Current state of workplace culture within the TV and Film industry and how this relates to flexible working and job-sharing.
• What is job-sharing? How does it work?  Benefits for job-sharers and the productions they work for.
• Who is job-sharing for?  How job-sharing can support people at all stages of their careers and for many different reasons. 
• Solutions. Flexible work as part of a raft of simple and practical ways to make things better.
• How to structure a job-share - using case studies to show how pairs have structured their job-share according to their own commitments, the specificities of the role and the needs of the production.
• Top Tips for hiring Job-Sharers.
• Job-share Myth-busting - we address some common concerns.
• Contracts and Flexible Working Policies - managing expectations and protecting the production and the job-sharers.
• Job-share success!  How to manage and support job-sharers, resulting in better motivated employees and a higher level of performance.
• We will hear from Line Producer Anneliese O’Callaghan on her experience of facilitating Job Sharers on a production.
• Hear from Raising Films Ireland on the opportunity to support Job Sharers on productions through the workplace support scheme. 
• Q&A

Participant Profile:

This information session is aimed at employers in the screen industry who are looking for information on how job sharing can work on productions to offer crew a better work-life balance, retain talent, and assist with crew shortages.

*Please note this session is for employers (Prod Companies, Producers, LPs, PMs) only.

Registration Procedure:

Please register online at this LINK by 10am, Monday 15th June

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

For queries on the scheme please contact info@raisingfilmsireland.com

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

Film & TV Crew Academy East is managed by Clermont Screen Hub.

Raising Films Ireland is supported by Screen Ireland through the Screen Stakeholder fund.

Company Profiles:

Raising Films Ireland

Raising Films Ireland (RFI) seeks to shift the culture within the Irish creative screen industries by creating a more diverse, inclusive and sustainable working environment for carers & parents. We envisage a creative screen industry that openly values and celebrates caregiving and parenthood, promoting equality of caring amongst genders and recognising caregiving as a vital aspect of a balanced life.

The Flexible Working Programme: Job Share is funded through Screen Ireland’s Screen Stakeholders Fund and is an evolution of the projects RFI have been doing in the last couple of years, including a Return to Work Scheme, and a Pilot Job Sharing Information Programme in partnership with National Talent Academies, Screen Guilds of Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland, TU Dublin.

RFI are partnering with National Talent Academies on The Flexible Working Programme: Job Share in a joint commitment to embed flexible working practices in the sector and support sustained fulfilling careers.

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.

Michelle Reynolds

Michelle has devised and implemented multiple job‑share schemes across the industry and has supported many people to stay in the industry in happier, healthier ways. She is a qualified trainer and leads on ReelTime Media’s training.

Michelle Reynolds joined Share My Telly Job following a 17-year career as a Producer and Director in Factual and Entertainment Television in the UK and the US. Highlights included House Hunters International for Leopard USA, 100-Year-Old Driving School for RDF and Deal or No Deal for Endemol.

Michelle then went on to work as the High-End TV Manager for ScreenSkills, where she became involved with the world of TV drama and ran several successful training programmes, including a Return-to-Work scheme with Film London.

Michelle now works solely for ReelTime Media and is passionate about promoting job-sharing as the best way of keeping talented, experienced, and diverse freelancers in the industry.

Dr Rowan Aust

Rowan consults and devises methods on how to put theories of good work into practice in TV and film. She received her PhD in 2019 from Royal Holloway, London, and from 2019-23 taught TV and film at the University of Huddersfield.

She has published widely on practices and ethics of care in TV and film. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bournemouth.