Director of Investment Facilitation and Trade Promotion at Arewa Trade and Investment Promotion Council

Reports to: Director General/CEO

ABOUT ATIPC

The ATIPC is an organization of 19 Northern Nigerian states, the FCT and their dependencies. ATIPC’s main purpose is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate local, state, regional and national economic policy formulation, adoption, localization and implementation. 

The members are Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Kogi, Nassarawa, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe , Zamfara, and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory(FCT).

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking an experienced and skilled professional to fill the position of Director of Investment Facilitation and Trade Promotion. The successful candidate will develop and implement strategies to facilitate investment and promote trade in the Arewa region. The Director will have a major mandate of assisting the Director General in the implementation of one of ATIPC’s core objectives known collectively as the Arewa Trade and Investment Promotion Initiative which is intended to facilitate the economic development, import substitution and export diversification potentials and capacities of the Arewa economies through numerous strategic interventions.

Responsibilities:

• Identify trade and investment opportunities
• Develop marketing materials
• Engage with potential trading partners
• Engage with potential investors and facilitate the process of activating investment 
• Ensure the council's trade promotion and investment facilitation objectives are met
• Create a robust database of potential global trade and investment partners with a strong sense of need for the comparative economic advantage of Northern Nigeria and activate engagements to facilitate a sustainable trade and investment relationship.
• Developing and implementing effective strategies to develop the economic potentials of northern Nigeria leveraging on its areas of comparative advantage while empowering its citizens with the capacity, access, influence and network to tap into this revitalized economy via human capital development, entrepreneurship development, trade and export promotion and investment facilitation in critical pro job sectors where knowledge and technology transfers and local content development can be prioritized.
• Develop a developmental roadmap to stimulate economic growth in the entire states of northern Nigeria with the ultimate objective of creating a fully integrated, internationally competitive, and unified regional economic community in which trade and investment will be enhanced for the sustainable economic development of the region.
• To oversee the mission of the council in providing advocacy and technical support to strategically improve the business and investment climate of Member States namely through development support and capacity-building activities targeting their IPAs and other relevant Government Officials. 
• To lead the consultancy team that will focus on enhancing the capacity of all states in northern Nigeria towards promoting the Ease of Doing Business and other economic development reforms and strategies.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in investment facilitation and trade promotion
• Excellent skills in investment facilitation, investment climate reforms, public private partnership, joint ventures, government owned enterprises management, trade promotion skills and export promotion
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop and implement trade promotion strategies
• Previous experience in similar capacity is critical
• Linkage and access to multilateral and global development institutions