Positions in this class provide secretarial and administrative assistance to an agency head or other principal agency executive in order to manage the office activities and administrative work of the executive office.
Incumbents generally serve as the personal secretary to a principal agency executive.
Positions in this class are usually assigned to executives who have major agency functional areas of responsibility. Areas of assignment are characterized by a diversity of administrative requirements involving extensive coordination and policy determination with agency wide and external implications. This class is distinguished from the Executive Secretary by the diversity of secretarial and administrative assignments, the increased requirement for knowledge of programs and objectives and their application on an agency wide basis, and the high visibility of the position, internally and externally to the agency. The work requires considerable knowledge of agency programs and objectives in order to relate them to the clerical process. Develops and implements procedures for expediting the flow of memoranda and other documents to, from and through the executive office by coordinating secretarial and administrative activities as they interface within the agency.