Nora Furlong

Current occupation

Freelance facilitator/ trainer/ youth worker/ educator/ consultant

Work experience

* University College Cork : Lecturer 2013 - Present
I teach 4 modules on the Youth Work Masters Programme
- Creative Methodologies in Youth Work
- Creative Social Action
- Facilitation Skills in Development Education (5 credits)
- Project Planning, Management and Leadership Skills (5 credits)

The programme is now in its 3rd year and I am responsible for the design, delivery, timetabling, and assessment of these modules, which focus on advanced professional practice in youth work and community development. These modules are social policy-oriented, focused on building connections with students between policy, theory, and practice through critical, creative, and action-based inquiry.

* TCA Officer ( Maternity Leave Cover)
Leargas - Irish NA ;March - September 2017
TCA (Transnational Co-operations Activities) is one of the elements of the European Training Strategy of Erasmus+: developed to implement a supportive and quality approach of the Programme.
Its aim is to bring added value and increased quality in the overall Programme implementation and so contribute to increasing the impact of the Programme at systemic level. Types of activities consist of :

Transnational training, support and contact seminars of potential Programme participants;
Transnational thematic activities linked to the objectives, priority target groups and themes of the Programme;
Transnational evidence based analysis of Programme results.

My key responsibilities include:
Project management; including planning, implementation and budgeting
Strategic development; informed by needs analysis and developments in youth, education and training policies
Implementation; design, promotion and recruitment for TCA activities
Training; to my colleagues to raise profile of TCA and to support staff in the implementation of TCA activities

* Programme Co coordinator & Lecturer in ‘Creativity & Change’ (Level 8 Special Purpose
Award) delivered through CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.
My responsibilities include:
- programme design, delivery & development
- Assessment, monitoring and evaluation of student work
- Student mentoring, academic and consultative support
- Promotion, student recruitment, communications & administration. I recruit 18 +
students nationwide annually
- Contributing to quality assurance criteria
- Strategic development, financial management and reporting of the programme.
There are several strands of learning within the context of global citizenship, including:
• Personal / Professional Development
• Creative/ interactive learning strategies
• Facilitation skills, Programme design & delivery
• Project Management
• Issue based knowledge

* Waterford Youth Council Coordinator 2016-2017
Comhairle na nOg is the mechanism designed and implemented by the Department of Children & Youth to enable young people to have their voice heard on the servicesm policies and issues that affect them in their local area.
My responsibilities included the development of CnN as a consultative forum facilitating the interaction of both Waterford county and city young people with policy makers and service developers in shaping policy and services country wide.

* Young Social Innovators: 2014-2016
Regional Trainer – I deliver educational workshops exploring social innovation to secondary schools in the South East

* Leargas 3D Training Network : 2013 - Present
National Trainer – deliver trainings nationally and internationally on behalf of the European Commission

* Wexford Waterford ETB (Education and Training Board) 2016 - Present
Local Development Tutor Panel: I deliever training accredited training programmes to local youth workers and volunteers

* Mayfield Community Arts Centre 2006-2013
Youth Worker and Youth Arts Coordinator