Role
Carlota is the Head of School Operations at Nottingham Law School and has responsibility for leading the effective and efficient delivery of all operational, technical, administrative and purchasing services within the Law School and NLS Legal (NLS’s on campus teaching law firm). As a member of the School’s Senior Management Team, she works closely with the Executive Dean, Deputy Dean and Heads of Department to deliver the School’s and NLS Legal’s strategic plans and objectives. Working with the COOR (Chief Operating Officer and Registrar), other Heads of School Operations and other Directors of Professional Services, her work focuses on ensuring services to students, colleagues and other stakeholders are customer focused and are efficient and effective.
Career overview
Carlota has worked at NTU since October 2014. She used to work as a School Management Support Administrator in NLS, supporting the Deputy Dean and senior management team. In May 2017, she was seconded to NLS Legal to the role of Enabling Innovation Project Co-ordinator. From 2019 to August 2024, Carlota was the Practice Manager at NLS Legal. Her main responsibilities were to oversee the administration of the firm, supporting the Head of NLS Legal with the day to day running of the firm, including risk and compliance, and managing the relationship with both internal and external stakeholders.
Before moving to the UK, she worked in the European Parliament in Brussels for four years as an Accredited Assistant to a Spanish Member of the European Parliament. Her main areas of expertise were European Policies on Culture, Education and Development. She had previously worked for two years in the Regional Office of Madrid in Brussels, for the regional Government of Madrid and the International Relations Office of Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. In that role, her main tasks included monitoring European policies, providing consultancy on European Affairs, informing about existing European Projects and assisting with calls for proposals, and drafting reports on a wide range of European subjects.
External activity
Alumna of Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid,
Sworn Translator-Interpreter (English to Spanish and Spanish to English).
Publications
Final project of her Master’s Degree on International Relations: “EU outermost regions: their evolution as a consequence of policies applied. Example: the Canary Islands”. Instituto de Estudios Europeos, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid.