NIPSA, the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance is the largest trade union in Northern Ireland with over 47,000 members.
NIPSA is organised into two main groups; the Civil Service Group and the Public Officers' Group.
The Civil Service Group has a membership over 19,000 covering civil servants and the staff of public bodies employed on civil service terms and conditions.
The Public Officers Group over 27,500 members and covers employees of Education Authority, Health and Social Services bodies and HSC Trusts, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Local Government, Libraries NI and a number of other public bodies and voluntary organisations.
Officers
President: Tanya Killen
Vice-President: Paul Dale
Honorary Treasurer: Jane Scott
Secretariat
General Secretary
Carmel Gates: Overall responsibility for NIPSA.
General Areas
Deputy General Secretary
Antoinette McMillen: Headquarters Organisation and Office Services. Strategic Lead on GDPR and Legal Cases.
Communications and Research Officer
Emma McConville: Communications, Media, Research and Policy.
Assistant Secretary
Catherine Arkinson: Strategic Lead on Equality, Human Rights, Social Affairs, Health and Safety, LGBTQI+, Youth Matters and Global Solidarity. Responsible for Complex Cases.
Higher Executive Officer
Roisin Graham: Training and Union Learning. (NIPSA's ULR Project Coordinator)
Civil Service Group
Deputy General Secretary
Maria Morgan: Overall Civil Service Issues. Pensions.
Assistant Secretaries
Alan Law: AFBI, DfI, Commission for Older People NI, Equality Commission NI, Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse, LRA, Commission For Victims and Survivors NI, NIMC , General Consumer Council NI, NIPB, DAERA , Victim and Survivors Service NI, PSNI.
Lisa Mackel: Criminal Justice Inspectorate, Prisoner Service Ombudsman NI, DoF, PPSNI, DoJ, Special EU Programmes Body, ICT Committee, The Executive Office, Intertrade Ireland, Tourism Ireland, Invest NI, Tourism Northern Ireland, Loughs Agency, Ulster Scots Agency, NI Judicial Appointments Commission, Waterways Ireland, NI Water.
Ryan Wilson: Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, NI Assembly, Arts Council NI, NI Audit Office, DfC, NI Screen, DfE, Orchardville Society, DoH, Police Ombudsman NI, DE, United Dairy Farmers, HSENI.
Higher Executive Officer
Steven Harvey: Aramark, PBNI, Charities Commission, Serco, CITB, Sodexo, Electoral Office, Sport NI, G4S, Utilities Regulator, Human Rights Commission.
Public Officers' Group
Deputy General Secretary
Patrick Mulholland: Overall Public Officers' Issues.
Health and Social Care
Assistant Secretary
Kevin Kelly: Overall Health Issues.
Higher Executive Officers
Ian Boersma: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Business Services Organisation (BSO), Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Br 731).
Eamon Farrell: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, Southern Health and Social Care Trust, NI Ambulance Service Trust (NIAST).
Lorraine Maguire (Regional Office): Western Health and Social Care Trust (Br 734).
Education (including Further Education)
Assistant Secretary
Janette Murdock: Overall responsibility for the Education Authority and Further Education.
Higher Executive Officers
Deborah Adegoye: Education Authority – Belfast Region, Queens University Belfast, Stranmillis College, CCEA.
Ricardo McGreevy: Education Authority – South Eastern Region.
Seana McConville: Education Authority – Southern Region, South Eastern Regional College (SERC), Southern Regional College (SRC).
Janice Walsh (Regional Office): Education Authority – North Eastern Region, Education Authority – Western Region , Northern Regional College (NRC), South West College (SWC), North Western Regional College (NWRC).
Local Government, Libraries NI and Housing
Assistant Secretary
Natalie Shiel: Overall responsibility for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), Local Government and Libraries NI.
Higher Executive Officers
Sheena McDaid (Regional Office): Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council , City of Derry Airport (CODA), Derry City and Strabane District Council , Belfast City Council.
Bernard Trainor: Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council, Belfast City Council.
Ricardo McGreevy: Disability Action, Extern , Local Government Staff Commission (Br 545), Libraries NI (Br 560), Radius Housing (Br 549), Voluntary and Community Bodies (Br 725), Charitable Organisations (Br 735).