
Explore why firms hire consultants, bridging skills gaps and helping busy organizations with external technical assistance, and learn how to shape your niche, value proposition, and global opportunities.
Explore five common consultancy assignment types, including strategy advice, planning and management guidance, technical skills in finance or information technology, independent reviews, and product delivery.
Identify technical skills unique through specialization and long experience, then note that 70–80 percent of opportunities are short-term independent assignments amid high competition.
Develop the right attitude for international consulting by clearly communicating, genuinely listening, translating knowledge into practical steps, and delivering simple, fit-for-purpose messaging that resonates with clients.
Explore how to handle your first consulting assignment, define terms of reference, and align capacity building with implementing new technology across sectors such as health and education.
Learn to prepare for client engagements by reviewing documents, understanding client needs and triggers, and presenting credibility through organized background research and probing interviews.
Explore how internal politics and stakeholder power shape consultancy projects, including budget and technical power, to ensure sustainable, capacity-building outcomes while navigating key organizational dynamics.
Learn to market yourself as an international consultant by focusing on essential marketing basics, identifying your selling points from repeat clients, and using CVs and networking to attract new assignments.
Learn how international consultants set fees, negotiate contracts, and structure payments—from rate ranges and value-based pricing to installments, LOE, and bidding considerations.
This highly intensive post-graduate course is a professional development program of value to social development specialists who wants to work with government, non-government and academic settings worldwide as consultants.
This program provides emerging national, regional, and international consultants with an opportunity to enhance and improve their professional knowledge and skills in the provision and management of consultancy services within the context of international health and deliver technical assistance that is robust, evidence-based, and grounded in the reality of resource-poor settings. This course aims to mirror the reality of working as an international health consultant and has a very strong emphasis on developing practical hands-on skills with a focus on both individual and team working for delivering successful consultancies.
You'll learn how to provide solid, evidence-based consulting that is founded in the realities of resource-constrained environments. As part of a diverse consulting team, you will apply your knowledge and abilities by performing a guided real-life consultancy assignment. Finally, this course will help you expand your personal and professional networks while also updating your knowledge and abilities in global health.
The learning objectives of this course are:
1. Understand the core knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that you need as an international consultant.
2. Describe the basic aspects of the value proposition of international consultants based on the common needs of hiring organizations.
3. Become familiar with the key skills that you need to develop as an international consultant.
4. Provide some tips on how to manage your career as an international consultant.