Associate Programme Officer (Non-Tariff Measures), DMD/BTIF, P2

The Business-driven Trade & Investment Facilitation Section (BTIF) is part of ITC’s Division of Market Development (DMD). The section emphasizes gathering actionable insights from businesses through targeted surveys, enabling policymakers to create effective regulatory frameworks that directly address real-world business challenges, fostering economic growth and diversification. It also offers specialized tools and advisory services to enhance transparency and compliance regarding non-tariff measures (NTMs), helping companies navigate international trade complexities and improve their market access strategies. In the area of trade facilitation, BTIF supports developing and least developed countries by identifying and addressing challenges faced by businesses in cross-border trade, simplifying customs and regulatory procedures, implementing digital technologies and IT systems, and conducting legal and procedural reforms. These measures help governments, border agencies, and businesses reduce transaction costs, improve transparency and efficiency, and enhance overall competitiveness in international markets. ITC’s programme on NTMs, hosted in BTIF, contributes to increasing the transparency of trade regulations, assessing private sector concerns with trade regulations and procedures and designing technical assistance for overcoming trade barriers with the aim to reduce NTM-related trade cost for developing country exporters and importers. It involves comprehensive business surveys on NTMs and related obstacles to goods trade in developing and least-developed countries, stakeholder consultations to bring SMEs’ voices to the attention of trade policy makers, to trigger the needed change, and capacity building on market access. BTIF’s work on climate competitiveness aims to better understand the role of trade on adaptation and mitigation to climate change. For more information about the programme, please visit www.ntmsurvey.org. The goal of this job function is to contribute to NTM programme implementation, in particular by contributing to the technical preparation and roll-out of business surveys (on NTMs, value chains and climate competitiveness), the implementation of the trade obstacles alert mechanisms and related training activities.