Mrs Arieta Matalomani Moceica holds a Bachelors of Jurisprudence from Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; a Post Graduate Certificate in Management from the Central Queensland University; a Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the University of Fiji where she was also awarded the Raman Nair Award for academic excellence in 2012. She’s also a double-Masters graduate, with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Graduate School of Business of the University of the South Pacific and a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy (MAIRD) from the University of Fiji.
Her professional experience in the last 25 years includes gender training in rural communities and within the civil service; project management, programme development, policy planning and analysis within the NGO sector nationally and regionally; lobbying and advocacy regionally and internationally specifically in the thematic areas of gender and climate change.
Organisations that she’s worked for include: the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Women’s Action for Change, UNIFEM Pacific Regional Office, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Pacific Islands Association of NGOs and the Pacific Conference of Churches. She’s done project work for UNDP within government and consultancies as a Fiji gender specialist for ADB and ILO funded projects and for the Fiji Red Cross.
She’s also been active in community social work in the Northern division and continues her community service through her children’s school committee.
From 2012 – 2015, she held the post of Director for Women in the Ministry for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation.
In 2016, she was recruited as the first national Head of Office for the newly opened International Organization for Migration (IOM) Fiji Office, before being recruited through an Open Merit Based Recruitment Process into her current post as Deputy Secretary Operations with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
She is married to Lieutenant Colonel Ilai Moceica, and they have 3 children.
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