CV | Adam Hurley

CURRICULUM VITAE

Volunteer Ireland

Advocacy and lobbying to advance strategic policy objectives, including producing annual Budget submission to Government.
Representing Volunteer Ireland in policy development forums and parliamentary processes.
Designing and implementing the organization’s first advocacy and government relations strategy.
Researching and developing the organisations policy positions for submissions to government; advocacy campaigns; and local, national, and European elections.
Tracking impact and advocacy against strategic goals.
Managing lobbying returns as per the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015.
Project managing Volunteer Ireland’s strategic response to the first National Volunteering Strategy.
Working with European partners to advance volunteering at EU level.
As a result of these efforts Volunteer Ireland secure two seats on the Department of Rural and Community Development's strategy implementation body, and an overall increase of 40% in funding to the sector.

Social Democrats

Policy and Communications Advisor to Party Leader

08/2016 - 10/2018

Conducted extensive research, and produced a wide range of parliamentary materials (briefing materials, legal analysis, speeches, motions, amendments etc.) and tracking of domestic, European and International developments on policy and legislation relevant to the member of parliament’s work.
Identifying and developing new policy areas.
Networking and relationship building across statutory and non-statutory agencies and the community and voluntary sector.
Representing the party leadership at meetings and functions.
Designing, managing and executing the party leader’s communications strategy.
Managing and supervising staff and interns.
Successfully developed a coalition of parliamentary partners to amend the Data Protection Act 2018 to make the processing of the personal data of a child for the purposes of direct marketing, profiling, or micro-targeting an offence.

Social Democrats
Operations Officer/National Administrator

07/2015– 08/2016

Advised general election candidates and party branches on policy issues and their campaigns, and monitored their compliance with ethics and electoral regulations ensuring they were followed at all times.
Conducting constituency analysis using large scale datasets.
Recruited, advised and developed a number of community activists throughout the country to establish branches in their area, growing the membership to over 1,000 members.
Produced internal party and membership communications, social media content, candidate policy briefings, newsletters, update videos and general election material.
Administered the establishment of the party, project managed all internal projects, monitored progress, and reported to leadership.

Róisín Shortall TD
Parliamentary Secretary

Advised constituents on often highly sensitive matters and made representations to Ministers, government bodies, and departmental officials on their behalf.
Engaged with NGOs and civil society groups to build reciprocal policy relationships.
Designed and maintained the Deputy’s website and social media accounts.
Played a lead role the Deputy's poll topping re-election campaign.

Senator Jillian van Turnhout
Policy Researcher

Fixed term contract to research and draft an in-depth report into online child safety issues, and outlining appropriate legislative responses, entitled Effective Strategies to Tackle Online Child Abuse Material, which has been cited on numerous occasions, including in the Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology (2015).

Denis Naughten TD
Parliamentary Advisor (Maternity Cover)

Worked with the leading NGOs to produce and launch joint policy proposals.
Worked with the Deputy to produce the Child Sex Offenders (Information and Monitoring) Bill 2012.

Senator Jillian van Turnhout
Researcher and Speechwriter (Placement)

Griffith College Dublin

First class honours dissertation on EU Consumer Contracts Directive 93/13/EEC
Contract Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Legal Research, Administrative Law, Criminology, Land Law, Company Law, Constitutional Law, European Union Law.

Dublin Institute of Technology

First class honours dissertation on the lobbying methods of interest groups.
Public Affairs Theory and Practice, Public Relations Writing, Corporate Strategy, Research Techniques, TV Environment and Presentation, Political Marketing, Political Structures, Ethics.

Trinity College Dublin

Two years training in qualitative and quantitative analysis including SPSS, R and Stata.
International Relations, Irish Politics, Comparative Politics, History of Political Thought, American Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Issues in Contemporary Politics.