Departmental Computing Officers (DCOs) & system owners
DCOs are IT contacts within individual departments.
List of DCOs
Find out who's the Departmental Computing Officer for your department:
Some departments have more than one DCO. Some DCOs perform the role full time, others carry out the work alongside other responsibilities.
The DCO role varies between departments, but is likely to include:
- Managing the purchase, installation and maintenance of IT equipment
- Looking after department-specific software
- Communicating information about new services and downtimes
- Overseeing training and support
System owners may also find some of the information on these pages useful, and are welcome to join the DCO Google Group to receive notifications of service outages which may affect their systems.
About the role
The responsibilities and duties that make up your job as DCO.
Google Group
Email list for DCOs & system owners, for announcements and technical discussions.
DCOs & IT Services
Network at risk times, how we communicate with you, and how we can help.
Chat rooms
Join the Slack channel for DCOs, plus access to the IT Services emergency chat.
Tools and guides
Includes LAN DB access, firewall changes and SSL certificates requests.
DCO Forum
An opportunity to exchange info and share best practice between departments.