BTL Next Step is a credit springboard and career accelerator for established mid-career practitioners to step up into senior “below-the-line” (“BTL”) crew and leadership roles that have been identified as experiencing shortages.

Applications are now open for mid-career practitioners (“Placees”) to participate in the BTL Next Step program. These are paid opportunities for competitively assessed and selected mid-career practitioners ready to step up into one of the roles listed. Successful applicants will be paid the applicable recognised industry rate (at least award minimum rates).

Applicants for Stage Two will be mid-career practitioners with an active ABN who are ready to step up into one of the placement opportunities being offered, who have 2+ years of professional experience or otherwise meet the criteria set out under “Who is eligible to apply for Stage Two?” in the Stage Two guidelines.

Applicants may apply for any opportunity listed below regardless of their residential address, and do not need to be currently living in the location listed for a particular opportunity. 

• Editor ACT
• Line Producer NSW
• Production Manager VIC
• Production Manager SA

Individual applicants may apply for up to $3,000 towards relocation costs and/or $3,000 towards carer/support costs (in addition to the funding being provided to the company as part of Stage One). Please refer to the “What support is available?” section in the guidelines.

Who can apply?

• Applicants for Stage Two will be Australian citizens or residents and meet Screen Australia’s Terms of Trade. 
• Applicants for Stage Two must have an active ABN at time of application; the applicant can be an individual, sole trader or a company as per Screen Australia’s Terms of Trade). If you do not have an ABN, please click here for information about how to apply for an ABN.
• Applicants will be mid-career BTL practitioners ready to step up into the role that they have selected. For the purposes of this initiative, a mid-career BTL practitioner is considered to be an individual who has: 
  • 2+ years of professional experience, with reportable credits, in a position that will prepare them to step-up into the opportunity as part of this program; or 
  • the applicant is from a diverse community and may not have the level of industry experience or reportable credits as outlined above, but can evidence the relevant skills, potential and experience required.
• Applicants are required to demonstrate how the BTL Next Step Program will elevate and accelerate their career trajectory.
• Applicants will be available for, and agree to commit to the full duration of the placement opportunity, and will enter into an agreement with the production company / screen business and Screen Australia to participate in the program.
• Applicants must not be currently employed by the production company or screen business that is offering the opportunity that the applicant has selected in their application. 
• Screen Australia is committed to increasing diversity throughout our sector, both in the content that we see and play on our screens and in the teams who make it. We encourage applications from First Nations people; people who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; people who are Deaf/deaf or disabled; women, people who are non-binary or gender diverse; people who identify as LGBTIQ+; and people located in regional and remote areas.

• Phone: 1800 507 901
• Email: industry@screenaustralia.gov.au