diff --git a/roles/openqa/dispatcher/files/schedule-live-respins.cron b/roles/openqa/dispatcher/files/schedule-live-respins.cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca96826ebd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/openqa/dispatcher/files/schedule-live-respins.cron
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# schedule openQA jobs for the current 'live-respins' compose; if it's
+# already been tested, this will not create any new jobs
+
+/usr/bin/fedora-openqa-schedule compose https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/ > /dev/null 2>&1 || /usr/bin/true
diff --git a/roles/openqa/dispatcher/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openqa/dispatcher/tasks/main.yml
index 6793f27f12..5a4f334085 100644
--- a/roles/openqa/dispatcher/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openqa/dispatcher/tasks/main.yml
@@ -124,3 +124,8 @@
   - restart fedmsg-hub
   tags:
   - config
+
+- name: Set up cron job to schedule live-respins jobs
+  copy: src=schedule-live-respins.cron dest=/etc/cron.hourly/schedule-live-respins owner=root group=root mode=0755
+  tags:
+  - config