INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT SKILLS, EXPERIENCES, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Updated: Nov 17, 2025 - The International Consultant applies expertise in natural resource management, sustainable land management, and ecosystem services to support value chain development and agro-economic studies. This role requires conducting monitoring and assessment of land use, productivity, and soil health using methodologies such as GIS and remote sensing. The consultant also facilitates multi-stakeholder processes, coordinates with international organizations, and promotes knowledge sharing for continuous improvement.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for an International Consultant Resume
  • Program Design
  • Data Evaluation
  • Training Development
  • Report Writing
  • Justice Reform
  • Policy Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Action Framework
  • Funding Analysis
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Outreach Planning
  • Research Collaboration
  • Team Coordination
  • Advocacy Planning
  • Interviewing
  • Strategic Facilitation
  • Collaboration Building
  • Community Engagement
  • Partnership Development
  • Workshop Facilitation

Summary of International Consultant Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BS in Environmental Science with 6 years of Experience

  • Experience in managing logistics operations, including contracting logistics services, evaluating and selecting service providers and third parties
  • Experience with public procurement rules and regulations
  • Experience coordinating integrated air, sea, and land transport operations
  • Experience in planning across functions and with other stakeholders
  • Experience in project management
  • Experience in working in complex and insecure environments
  • Experienced in supervising teams of professional staff
  • Highly organized/structured, with strong time management and planning skills
  • Action/client/solution-oriented, proactive, innovative, strong communicator, able to work with a high degree of independence
  • Able to work in a team and switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Fluency in oral and written French

2. BA in International Relations with 7 years of Experience

  • Business experience in the customer service or relocation field 
  • Working experience in a Personal/professional expatriate  
  • Strong, demonstrated, well-developed customer service skills
  • Demonstrated analytical and process skills
  • High level of accuracy and process orientation
  • Proven experience in project management and portfolio management 
  • Computer proficiency in MS Office 
  • Experience selling to or consulting with app developers and companies
  • Experience in thought leadership in applying data-driven models that have had a tangible impact on sales and marketing operations across international markets
  • Familiarity with gaming/app business generation and marketing strategy
  • Fluency in multiple languages or familiarity with businesses and cultural nuances of multiple countries
  • Outstanding communicator with the ability to align multiple stakeholders internally and externally to defined goals and deliverables

3. BS in Economics with 5 years of Experience

  • Working experience in Customer service 
  • Demonstrates ability to be proactive and excel in a fast-paced environment
  • Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software and systems (i.e., Office Suite)
  • Positive performance and attendance history
  • Relocation experience that included direct Client contact 
  • Superior verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong relationship management skills
  • Organizational and planning skills
  • Must have critical thinking skills
  • Proficient in being proactive
  • Excellent analysis, judgment, negotiation and decision-making ability
  • Skilled in problem analysis and problem-solving
  • Ability to understand and adapt to customer, Client and business needs

4. BA in Political Science with 3 years of Experience

  • Professional experience in the field of corruption prevention activities, with previous assignments relating to asset and income declaration verification
  • Previous experience in working with international organisations, in the field of prevention of corruption, and in particular, asset and income declarations
  • Deep understanding and excellent knowledge of international standards on the prevention of corruption
  • Professional fluency in English, both oral and written
  • Computer-literate with practical experience in Microsoft packages
  • Ability and willingness to work with people of different cultural, national and religious backgrounds
  • Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity
  • Ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities

5. BS in Business Administration with 6 years of Experience

  • Demonstrable knowledge and work experience in writing analytical reports
  • Experience in writing similar analytical reports and presenting complex data in an accessible and engaging manner
  • Proven excellent report writing skills in English
  • Ability to produce high-quality work to tight deadlines with minimal supervision
  • Experience in Cash Transfers and Child Protection
  • Experience in employee benefits consulting or work
  • Must have strong organizational skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks in a demanding, fast-paced work environment
  • Ability to work in a team environment where the priorities and requirements may change quickly
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

6. BA in Anthropology with 4 years of Experience

  • Working experience in the fields of programme management, development cooperation, gender issues or public health
  • Prior experience in developing countries
  • Prior experience in GBV response and prevention
  • Prior experience in PSEA
  • Prior experience in humanitarian action 
  • Thorough understanding of the UN system in general, and especially the UNFPA mandate, policies, and operations 
  • Excellent analytical, planning, and negotiation skills
  • Must have excellent communication skills
  • Prior experience in inter-agency coordination

7. BS in Development Studies with 6 years of Experience

  • Experience in the International (expat) Benefits Industry 
  • Experience with implementing international retirement/pension/savings programs
  • Highly developed attention to detail, organizational and follow-up capabilities
  • High degree of business technology awareness and its applications to workplace efficiencies
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Effectively handle large, long-term projects as well as manage the details associated with everyday tasks
  • Excellent demonstrated written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to ask fact-finding questions
  • Must be independent, self-motivated, goal-oriented and people-oriented
  • Open and willing to receive and give constructive critique
  • Ability to follow instructions along with existing processes and procedures

8. BA in Global Studies with 9 years of Experience

  • Knowledge in at least one of the following areas: procurement, budgeting and forecasting, accounting, tax management, customs management, human resources, and other back-office functions, grants and funds management, financial markets, payments infrastructures, cryptocurrencies or banking
  • Demonstrable experience in the elaboration of complex analysis, design, and testing of IT solutions from a functional perspective
  • Knowledge and experience on BABOK techniques to conduct requirements gathering, As-Is and To-Be analysis and change management concerning people, tools, and processes
  • Must have strong analytical skills
  • Able to provide rich arguments supporting recommendations, elaborating on pros and cons analysis
  • Proven experience in leading functional areas in IT projects, serving as a link between the business stakeholders and IT technical consultants
  • Experience in conducting functional tests and validation of IT solutions during development and User Acceptance Tests, reaching a successful approval of the solution before deployment into Production environments
  • Proven experience providing post-go-live support to the key users and documenting solutions and recommendations
  • Oriented to details and quality in documentation
  • Able to deliver documents methodically, defining conceptual diagrams to make them easier to understand
  • Proven experience in designing business and solution processes, RACI matrices and highlighting opportunities for improvement in the processes
  • Perfect command of MS Project, Excel
  • Able to maintain meetings with non-native speakers and elaborate proper meeting minutes with significant details

9. BS in Public Policy with 7 years of Experience

  • Working knowledge of English is sufficient in the case of PSA.SBS
  • Substantive working experience related to natural resource management (NRM) and value chain development
  • Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
  • Substantial knowledge of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and how the different steps of value chains may be used to promote SLM and vice versa
  • Demonstrated substantive understanding and knowledge of the concept of ecosystem services and their relationship to SLM
  • Demonstrated experience in undertaking agro-economic studies and research related to productivity and soil management
  • Demonstrated knowledge in the effective facilitation of complex multi-stakeholder processes
  • Knowledge and experience in NRM monitoring, including methodologies on monitoring and assessing land use change, land productivity and soil organic carbon
  • Knowledge of GIS and remote sensing applied to natural resources monitoring and assessment at the (sub)national level
  • Experience in working with international organisations
  • Strong coordination and facilitation skills