Nina Fletcher

Nina is Acting Chief Executive Officer of Ciarb. Since joining in 2021, she has been responsible for areas including strategy development; data and insight; continuous improvement across events, education and membership operations; member offer development; and volunteer and Branch support.

Nina has over 15 years' leadership and strategy development experience in professional bodies, underpinned by a legal education, and research and analytical expertise. Focused on impact and outcomes, Nina takes an evidence-based approach to drive operational efficiencies, align organisational decision making with strategic objectives and achieve targets.

In addition to holding senior roles in organisations, Nina has experience as a consultant providing strategy development support and, in particular, assisting higher education institutions to secure public funding through impact reporting.

Nina is driven by a service ethic and a desire to make a  positive contribution to social justice. She started her career as a legal academic, with a tenured post as a law lecturer at Staffordshire University and visiting lecturer roles on a number of nursing degree courses. Her specialisms were healthcare, ethics and regulation of professions. She also co-authored Ethics, Law and Nursing (Manchester University Press, 1995) - a reference book designed to support legal and ethical decision making in nursing and midwifery practice.

Her move to applied socio-legal research led to roles at the Law Society of England and Wales first as a researcher and then as the head of a multi-disciplinary research and foresight function, which influenced the development of legal sector policy and regulation through innovative evidence outputs and engagement with Government departments and regulators.  Through involvement with the then Higher Education Funding Council’s first evaluation of the impact of academic research in the UK, Nina also contributed to the development of official guidance for university law departments on demonstrating research impact.

Nina is a qualified leadership coach and an experienced trustee.  She adopts a coaching style to support performance at all levels and has held Board roles with:

• Citizens' Advice Westminster - Vice Chair then Chair of the Service Delivery Committee monitoring delivery of services against local authority KPIs and contributing to the development of a new strategy and planning process;
• The Richmond Fellowship Scotland - Nina was Vice Chair of the Management Committee; and
• Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust - as Trustee and member of the Grants Committee, Nina has helped to streamline the grant assessment process and improve understanding of the outcomes from grant funding.