Joyce Mataya

Malawi Board Member

Ms. Joyce Mataya brings 25 years of technical expertise, program development, capacity strengthening and partnership building skills, complemented by on-the-ground experience working with a wide range of public, non-profit and for-profit entities in the Eastern and Southern Africa region as well as Malawi. She has led and built the organizational and technical capacities of NGO and CSO leadership teams, government departments and private corporations to drive institutional change and greater effectiveness to achieve sustainable education, health and livelihoods programs within national policy frameworks. Currently, Ms. Mataya is employed by World Education, Inc. (WEI) as APA’s Director and CSO Capacity Strengthening Advisor. In this role, she provides senior leadership and management to the project; heads up organizational and technical capacity strengthening activities; and stewards partnerships with implementing partners and GoM stakeholders at national and district level. Prior to this role, Ms. Mataya served as the Team Lead/Capacity Development Advisor for PACT Malawi, providing overall program management and leading capacity development teams working with local partners implementing various programs funded by KFW and USAID PEPFAR under the Coordination Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children) to deliver education and other comprehensive child supports. She introduced a structured mentoring approach in the district action plans and successfully developed the capacity of over 100 district-level stakeholders. A natural relationship builder, Ms. Mataya is a seasoned professional and highly experienced leader who understands the Malawi country context, and issues across the region. She brings particular expertise in organizational development (OD) that will be critical to realizing Bantwana’s vision and technical approach. Aside from project-focused work noted above, she has served as a technical specialist and lead consultant in the design, facilitation, and successful delivery of over 40 OD interventions and trainings in Malawi and other countries including leadership training, strategic plan development, organizational cultural transformation and change management, and partnership management. Ms. Mataya holds a M.Sc. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from UNICAF in Cyprus, and a B.Sc. in Agriculture from Bunda College of Agriculture in Lilongwe, Malawi.