Job sharing for first time...help

[Jobsharenightmare]

Hi all and thanks in advance for any advice.

I'm three months into my first ever job share and the person I am sharing the role with is usually a consultant working alone (think private Vs local authority). I feel this is the crux of the issue. I cannot get them to copy me into emails, agree anything between us first before committing us to projects etc. It is like they do what they want and tell me after.

Some things I have suggested:

• weekly handover memo of where we are each up to ahead of the next person's days in the job
• cc each other's emails indicating in the subject for info or action needed
• agreeing who is responsible for which tasks

None of this is happening from their end.

Any ideas?

Who do you report to? Can you express your concerns to your line manager? It sounds like the other person is not a willing participant in this job share, could that be possible? How was the job share agreed and what guidelines were set out at the beginning? To be honest, I worked in a job share for about 4 years and it only ever worked because we were both scrupulous about a handover and we also agreed that we didn't care who got credit for any particular project as long as the work got done!

I have a meeting with the line manager coming up but was hoping to address it myself in the first instance. They don't seem to take credit but I guess I wouldn't know!