Imoa is the Student Support and Community Co-Ordinator for the Manukau Learning Hub. In this role he supports and advocates for students, coordinates community events on the campus, and provides a safe and welcoming environment for the student community.
Imoa and his wife, Amelia, graduated from Malua Theological College, Samoa in 2005 and then moved back to Aotearoa New Zealand for further study. Imoa completed his PGDip in 2008 and his Master of Theology in 2009 at the University of Auckland. In 2010, he took up a role as lecturer at Malua Theological College. The family returned to New Zealand in 2013 where Imoa continued his studies at the University of Auckland – graduating with a PhD in Theology in 2018. He lectured at Malua Theological College from 2017, arriving back to New Zealand in 2020 due to health issues. Imoa and Amelia are now serving at their church, the Congregational Christian Church Samoa in Papatoetoe.
In 2021, Imoa was employed by Ara Poutama Aotearaoa (Corrections New Zealand) as a Programme Facilitator for a unique Pasifika programme conducted at the Spring Hills Corrections Facility called “Saili Matagi” - a rehabilitation programme for male prisoners of Pasifika descent serving a sentence for violent offences.
Imoa is an Assistant Minister at their church, a Sunday school teacher, a member of its Youth choir, its Youth group, and a leader of a specialised group for young couples and those who are single mothers or fathers. Imoa and Amelia have five children; three adult children - Joachim, Kesniel and Johanna, and two younger children, Boanerges and Eliyanah, who are at secondary and primary school respectively. They also have a new addition to their family, a puppy named Ace!