Tracey Jessup
Chief Transformation and Resources Officer
Tracey Jessup is Chief Transformation and Resources Officer at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ (Æß²ÊÖ±²¥). She leads, develops and manages comprehensive changes to how the university operates its business, including the delivery of a critical multi-year transformation journey to align our technology and campus, our people and our ways of working. Putting modern digital capability at the heart of how Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ develops a unique student and staff experience will ensure that we deliver our Empowering University Strategy – transforming our business and creating a highly competitive model in higher education through the digitalisation of student facing processes and driving future technologies for education and research.
The Marketing and Communications, IT and Media Services, Estates and Facilities and People Services directorates and the Transformation Office report to her. Each is critical in making the people, process and technology changes to enable that transformation and deliver high-performing, change-enabled teams.
Prior to joining Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ Tracey had an over twenty-year career in central Government working in policy and digital roles, most recently as Chief Digital and Information Officer of the UK Parliament. Tracey was responsible for the strategic direction of Parliament’s digital offering, transforming ways in which citizens connected with Parliament including building a new website, the delivery and management of parliamentary digital platforms, and providing technology services to Members and staff in Westminster and throughout the UK.
Tracey has featured in the CIO 100 from 2021 to 2024 and in 2024 also won the CIO 100 award for outstanding contribution to the public sector. Tracey is also the winner of the Women in IT Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 awarded for her work leading delivery of the virtual and hybrid Parliament during the Covid-19 pandemic.
You can contact Tracey Jessup directly by emailing Tracey.Jessup@dmu.ac.uk or through her EPA by emailing Jennifer.Palmer@dmu.ac.uk