Published: Oct 06, 2025 - The International Consultant develops and presents strategic work plans, conducts reviews of mission documents, and engages leadership through interviews to align operational outlooks with strategic goals. This role facilitates retreats and working groups to define programmatic objectives, supports cross-departmental collaboration, and compiles contributions into cohesive strategic drafts. The consultant also finalizes the multi-year strategy by incorporating feedback and delivering a comprehensive document for mission guidance.

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1. International Consultant, Global Development Strategies, Omaha, NE
Job Summary:
- Review the current Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) mechanism including data collection/reporting/recording tools
- Develop a preliminary program design, particularly for NSP and outreach
- Cover how outreach activities will be performed during normal time and also utilizing alternate ways of needle/syringe exchange during the pandemic, anti-drug drive, etc.
- Indicate the better way to reach female PWID through NSP, OST and other available services
- Update training module/curriculum for three tiers of staff, including Programme Manager, DIC staff and also Outreach staff (as current training modules and curriculum are mostly in Bengali
- Undertake discussions with local researchers engaged in an Ethnographic study
- Conduct training evaluation, provide feedback to SC, CARE, develop training report and next steps and share with SC and CARE
- Practical work shadowing outreach workers
- Practical work with outreach supervisors and program managers
- Finalize report and recommendations for next steps
Skills on Resume:
- Program Design (Hard Skills)
- Data Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Outreach Planning (Soft Skills)
- Training Development (Hard Skills)
- Research Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Training Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Report Writing (Hard Skills)
- Team Coordination (Soft Skills)
2. International Consultant, Horizon Policy Advisors, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Review the national justice system, including criminal, civil and administrative areas, vis-à-vis the requirements of the Code on the Rights of the Child and the Juvenile Justice Code and identify areas for the introduction of further reforms
- Issues related to the specialization of various systems, coordination between different sectors, involvement of non-justice professionals (psychologists, social workers) in justice proceedings, their role, responsibilities, specialization requirements, child-friendly environment, etc.
- Define how the establishment of a Platform can contribute to Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Arab Region and Economic recovery after Covid-19, with a focus on advancing women’s labor force participation, green jobs, and climate change in the next 5 years
- Develop a strategic framework accompanied by a result-oriented action plan
- Implement and monitor the functioning of the Network, including a clear Theory of Change, Performance Monitoring Plan, Communications and Advocacy Plan, and a resource mobilization Plan
- Reviewing and updating the vision, mission, and mandate for Platform to incorporate the dimensions of green economy, climate change, and economic COVID-19 recovery
- Undertake regional stakeholders mapping and analysis from the social, private, and public sectors
- Meeting with the Agency of Export and further discussing, in the course of the assignment, other topics
- Evaluate the current status of the Agency in terms of capacities and support to exporters
- Provide recommendations to the Agency on strategic development, on which additional services could be provided by the Agency, considering good international practices
- Provide recommendations for training with topics, considering the current internal capacities of the Agency
- Suggest new ways of promoting export potential
Skills on Resume:
- Justice Reform (Hard Skills)
- Policy Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- Action Framework (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Advocacy Planning (Soft Skills)
- Capacity Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Recommendation Development (Soft Skills)
3. International Consultant, Prairie International Consulting, Lincoln, NE
Job Summary:
- Preparing and presenting the work plan, including the timeline and key milestones, based on an initial input from the Mission Strategy Task Force and an operational outlook provided by the Mission
- Conducting a desk review of relevant Mission programmatic and strategic documents
- Conducting introductory interviews with the Mission leadership (Head of Mission and Deputy Head of Mission), Heads of Departments, and other relevant Mission staff
- Updating the work plan and presenting to the HoM and Strategy Task Force an outline of the strategic planning process and the MY strategy, including the specific timeline
- Facilitating an off-site retreat for relevant Mission staff to translate the Mission mandate into five to seven key crosscutting programmatic objectives
- Proposing and facilitating the formation of cross-departmental working groups for each objective, with groups tasked to develop the relevant portion of the strategy
- Providing support to the work of the cross-departmental WGs
- Compiling input from each WG into a draft strategy
- Producing the first draft of the MY strategy and sharing it with the Strategy Task Force for Mission feedback
- Producing the final document of the MY strategy, after incorporating feedback
Skills on Resume:
- Work Planning (Hard Skills)
- Document Review (Hard Skills)
- Interviewing (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Team Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Drafting Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Feedback Integration (Soft Skills)
- Report Production (Hard Skills)
4. International Consultant, Riverbend Global Solutions, Tulsa, OK
Job Summary:
- Conduct interviews with the Office sectors/programmes and review the current resource mobilization strategy to identify areas of high potential, with a focus on identifying intersectoral topics
- Develop a proposal of criteria for the identification of partners and funding sources
- Mapping of actors, entities, networks related to education, human mobility, cultural and creative industries, indigenous peoples, etc., that manage funding sources
- Analyse UNESCO’s current funding sources
- Map the sources of national, regional, and international financing for the different sectors
- Develop a document that presents the mapping of funding sources and opportunities related to UNESCO's areas of work
- Develop a database with key information on potential resources, and information on calls, funding opportunities and their deadlines
- Identify high-potential alliances from the mapping and the database and guarantee the organisation of contact meetings between UNESCO Quito staff and the identified organisations
- Design a specific strategy for leveraging MYRP project resources and develop the action plan for the Complementary Resource Mobilization Strategy
- Analyse MYRP financing gaps for each of its components
- Conduct a SWOT analysis (and other relevant methodological tools) for mobilizing the required resources
- Identify on the funding sources map those with the greatest potential, aligning potential partners and project components
Skills on Resume:
- Interviewing (Soft Skills)
- Strategy Review (Hard Skills)
- Partner Identification (Hard Skills)
- Actor Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Funding Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Database Development (Hard Skills)
- Alliance Building (Soft Skills)
- SWOT Analysis (Hard Skills)
5. International Consultant, Summit Worldwide Partners, Wichita, KS
Job Summary:
- Develop a resource mobilization strategy document for the MYRP project that is consistent with the overall strategy of the Office, including a detailed action plan
- Elaboration of a presentation portfolio for the MYRP in coordination with the National Education Officer
- Elaborate on the methodology for monetization of in-kind resources
- Analyse the sources of in-kind resources identified in the map of financing sources
- Conduct approaches and interviews with relevant parties to explore possible collaboration with UNESCO and the MYRP Project team
- Develop a document presenting the in-kind resource monetization methodology and its application to mapped initiatives that can be an in-kind contribution to the MYRP Project and UNESCO Quito Office
- Present the methodology and proposal of initiatives to be conducted directly by UNESCO teams in 2022 (Timeline)
- Design of project profiles and presentation of 1 to 2 projects
- Design of project profiles (at least 1 per sector and 2 cross-sectoral)
- Identification of relevant and timely funding opportunities
- Based on the identified opportunities and project profiles, conduct preparation and application of at least one project
- Participation in meetings as a focal point on issues related to resource mobilization
Skills on Resume:
- Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Action Planning (Hard Skills)
- Resource Monetization (Hard Skills)
- Funding Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration Building (Soft Skills)
- Project Design (Hard Skills)
- Opportunity Identification (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Participation (Soft Skills)
6. International Consultant, Guardian International Services, Springfield, MO
Job Summary:
- Lead, motivate and develop a team of staff to enable high performance
- Ensure all team members are trained and implementing enhanced programme designs so all livelihood activities become conflict-, nutrition-, environmental -, and gender-sensitive
- Coach and mentor staff to integrate the strategic, operational and technical standards found in resilience building block integration material
- Participate in and role model effective cooperation and technical contribution in the technical review committee for the Field Level Agreement (FLA) management process and NGO partnership collaboration
- Prepare for the implementation of the 2023-2025 CSP for the livelihoods, resilience and food systems sections
- Engaging in Livelihood Programme staffing review, including alignment exercise and review of Terms of Reference (TOR) of livelihood Country Officer (CO) and Field Office (FO) staff to align to new operational requirements in the new CSP
- Adjusting the Livelihood Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework to reflect new indicators from the resilience building blocks, conflict sensitivity, and other new corporate guidance
- Revision of Livelihood Associate and field monitor assistant TORs to strengthen decentralization of project management and implementation
- Review of tools, including but not limited to, financial review of CPs' invoicing, to support improved CP management at field level
- Strengthen community participatory engagement for design, improved for local ownership and leadership, aims for sustainability, mainstreams risk, gender, nutrition, and protection, and PSEA and focuses on the most vulnerable
Skills on Resume:
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Staff Training (Hard Skills)
- Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Partnership Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Programme Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Framework Adjustment (Hard Skills)
- Tool Review (Hard Skills)
- Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
7. International Consultant, Keystone Global Advisors, Topeka, KS
Job Summary:
- Ensure implementation of community participatory training, and advance the activities of the targeted region-specific CBPP process
- Hire and train development community UN Volunteers at CO and FO to ensure improved community engagement, particularly in conflict sensitivity, gender and inclusion
- Update the application of the CLEAR Study in Q4 2022 with the most recent food security and nutrition indicators
- Identify and explore opportunities for engaging in strategic, resource, material, and operational partnerships with stakeholders, mapping current investments and contributions by government, donors, IFI, and the private sector
- Highlight innovation ideas for value chains, small holder agricultural market support, asset creation, individual, community or institutional capacity strengthening, nutrition, gender, homegrown school feeding, resilience, climate and disaster risk reduction or conflict-sensitivity
- Steward the implementation of the self-reliance approach project and other key projects that have strategic resource mobilization value, in addition to their inherent value of support for humanitarian to development programming
- Engage with UN Agencies to develop area-based joint projects, as donor-funded multi-year projects have longer TDD than the current livelihood funding stream
- Enhance WFP’s leadership status in forums relating to the area of specialty, by participating in the inter-agency coordination forums/working groups, task forces for Livelihoods, cash for work, agricultural policy, and resilience building
- Ensure WFP drives key discussion and shares timely, relevant information in the LCRP Livelihood Sector Core Group, and, as a result, the wider livelihood sector on key food security and nutrition issues
- Ensure WFP strongly advocates for and, as a result, maintains its membership in the LCRP Livelihood Sector Core Group
Skills on Resume:
- Community Training (Hard Skills)
- Volunteer Management (Soft Skills)
- Data Updating (Hard Skills)
- Partnership Development (Soft Skills)
- Innovation Promotion (Soft Skills)
- Project Stewardship (Hard Skills)
- Interagency Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Advocacy (Soft Skills)
8. International Consultant, Blue Sky Development Consulting, Sioux Falls, SD
Job Summary:
- Manage the finances and budget of Livelihoods project activities
- Responsible for funds consumption promptly for all projects, and complete all monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting and funds reviews, collaborating with the Finance and Budget and Programme units
- Operate a lean budget approach to ensure consumption within TDD
- Regular briefings to the Head of Programme and senior management, and budgeting and programming regarding the use of flexible funding and ensure no funding pipeline breaks
- Responsible for successful, consistent, reliable, efficient and effective performance for preparation, review, financial tracking and invoice vetting, and NGO performance evaluation and FLA management
- Fullfill all duties assigned as an “Activity manager” in the NGO Partnerships and FLA management standard operating procedures and mentor unit to perform their contributions
- Actively contribute and prepare documentation to facilitate longer-term, multi-year fund resource mobilization efforts with the external partnership’s unit
- Responsible for the livelihoods stakeholder mapping exercises, identifying external opportunities and internal strengths, so entry points with donors can be developed into financial contributions
- Responsible for coordinating inputs for regular publicity, social media, donor briefs and visibility with the Public Information and communications teams
- Collaborate with the Regional Bureau and the WFP Headquarters on policy, lessons learned, evaluation, and risk management
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Management (Hard Skills)
- Budget Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Fund Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Invoice Vetting (Hard Skills)
- NGO Management (Soft Skills)
- Resource Mobilization (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
9. International Consultant, Heritage International Consulting Group, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Responsible for optimizing the system for easy use and training employees in its functions
- Responsible for meeting directly with customers and clients to determine their organization-related needs
- Incorporate these needs into a cohesive plan that serves the company’s complete Customer pool
- Learn to manage relationships, interactions, and transactions with others
- Support the delivery across a wide variety of global consulting offerings with a focus on wellness strategy, retirement advisory and healthcare strategy
- Provide support on key multinational clients across Asia, helping them with their strategic agendas on benefits, employee experience and engagement
- Support to identify and develop cross-line of business and geography opportunities with respect to issue-led consulting
- Assistance as an international project manager in multinational projects
- Coordination and planning of projects
- Support the management in planning and conducting international business meetings
- Support the development of the website
- Assistance in further developing the client magazine (writing, translating, editing articles, design, etc.)
- Market and competition analysis for clients
- Support of the team in daily international business
Skills on Resume:
- System Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Employee Training (Soft Skills)
- Client Needs (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Consulting Support (Hard Skills)
- Project Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Content Development (Hard Skills)
10. International Consultant, Cornerstone Policy and Strategy, Columbia, MO
Job Summary:
- Contribute to the coordination and implementation of the Transformative Urban Coalitions Programme and its activities with programme partners, with respect to its scientific and policy profile
- Take a leading role in developing transformative frameworks for urban decarbonisation, including its application in five pilot cities, thereby advancing transformative urban change theory and adapting it to the specific local circumstances
- Together with the programme partners, develop scalable approaches for mapping and implementing key shifts for sustainable urban transformations to move from localised low-carbon achievements to systemic change towards zero-carbon cities
- Serve as an interface between transformative research and novel ways of dissemination and capacity development, including by means of arts and film as well as transformative education
- Publish research results, together with other researchers at UNU-EHS, with programme partners and beyond, in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters as well as in policy publications
- Feed the scientific findings of the programme into the key policy process, including at high-level conferences and events
- Support the day-to-day programme management, including the supervision of junior staff, reporting, and donor interaction
- Provide a technical briefing for the IAT to launch the exercise and establish the indicator groups, based on the technical guidance
- Conduct interviews and facilitate working sessions with key UN stakeholders to score areas of performance
- Facilitate a half-day consolidation workshop with IAT/GTG to reach consensus on results for each indicator
- Draft Score Card Narrative, follow-up matrix and proposed action plan to improve performance based on indicators, including timelines for improving performance of indicators and resources to improve performance
- Prepare a presentation on key findings and proposed contents of the action plan for presentation to the UNCT
- Complete the final Scorecard, narrative report, the suggested action plan and a follow-up matrix
Skills on Resume:
- Programme Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Framework Development (Hard Skills)
- Urban Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Research Publication (Hard Skills)
- Policy Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Staff Supervision (Soft Skills)
- Workshop Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Action Planning (Hard Skills)