Mr. Joseph Mogosi Motari took charge of the State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs in Ministry of Labour and Social Protection on December on 5th December, 2022. 
 He is a seasoned career civil servant and administrator. Before his appointment as Principal Secretary, Mr. Motari was Director of Administration in the then State Department for Post Training and Skills Development, Ministry of Education from May 2022. Prior to his elevation, he served as the Senior Deputy Secretary in the State Department for Gender  in the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs between May, 2019 and May, 2022, and as Deputy Secretary  from March 2019 to May 2019 in the same station.
Mr. Motari served as the County Secretary and Head of Public Service, Nakuru County from 2013 - 2017; Disctrict Commissioner, Rongai North from 2011 to 2013; District Commissioner, Pokot North from 2007 to 2010; PA to PC Central in 2007; Senior District Officer I of Suba, Kwale and Tana River districts between 2003 and 2006; District  Officer I in Kilifi , Taita Taita Taveta and Kwale districts between 2000 and 2002.
He has served in Baragoi Division in Samburu, Kibish Division in Turkana, Keiyo District, and Kesses Division in Uasin Gishu as  District Officer II between 1995 and 1997. Prior to that he had served as District officer III in Kericho district in 1993 and District Officer Cadet in West Pokot in 1992.  
Mr. Motari is an alumnus of Kenyatta University where he undertook his Bachelor of Arts degree and Moi University where he undertook his Masters Degree in Public Administration. 
He has also attended numerous senior management courses in the course of his long standing career in the Civil Service.