Orlando Hewitt

Orlando Hewitt’s

Regional consultant

His foray into regional consultancy commenced in June 2013 when he was recruited as a Senior Associate of Dunn Pierre Barnett and Associates, to conduct and report on facility audits in eight  Caribbean countries and to identify and recommend tools and equipment as well as associated costs for respective workshops and labs, as part of the Caribbean Trade and Competitiveness Project.

Prior to working as a Consultant, he spent twenty-three years with the HEART Trust/NTA (Jamaica) with the last ten of those years working in Quality Assurance at the NCTVET. As a Quality Assurance Specialist, he guided numerous TVET institutions towards receiving NCTVET Accreditation for their respective vocational training programs and worked as a Lead Auditor in conducting evaluations and special audits of institutions and their programs.

In 2014 he was assigned as the Qaulity Assurance Technical Officer for the Caribbean Association of National Training Authorities (CANTA), where he worked relentlessly to improve capacity building in Quality Assurance for personnel from respective NTAs within the region, as well as guiding four (4) days to receive CVQ Accredited status from CANTA and COHSHOD of CARICOM. He was also instrumental in preparing CARICOM’s Quality Assurance Criteria and  Guidelines for the Caribbean Vocational Qualifications (November 2015).

Orlando Hewitt holds a Master in Human Resource Development from UWI, is ISO 9001:2015 trained and certified as a Lead Auditor, and also trained and certified in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

Other regional consultancies with which he played a critical role include:

  • The Development of National Qualification Framework for St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN-NQF
  • The establishment of a Quality Assurance Framework for the National Qualification Framework of Belize
  • Organizational Review to Strengthen the Capacity and Operations of the Secretariat of the St. Lucia Council on TVET (SLCTVET)
  • Evaluation of TVET Capacity in Antigua
  • Institutional Business Planning and Development: Skills for the Future, Barbados
  • Development of a National Occupational Classification System for St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN-NOCS)
  • Capacity Building in Quality Assurance – Establishment of the Suiname National Training Authority.

Orlando Hewitt holds a Master in Human Resource Development from UWI, is ISO 9001:2015 trained and certified as a Lead Auditor, and also trained and certified in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

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