administrative staff
Behind-the-scenes workers
Administrative staff are the employees who handle an organization's clerical, organizational, and support functions—scheduling, correspondence, record-keeping, budgeting, and general office management.
Distinguished from those who perform the organization's core work (teachers, doctors, engineers), administrative staff keep operations running: The administrative staff processes all hiring paperwork.
Often shortened to admin staff.
- receptionistVisitor-greeting office worker
- schedulerOne who arranges timing
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- executive assistantSenior administrative support role
- office managerWorkplace administrative supervisor
corporate offices · filing systems · clerks · payroll · organization · communication · phone calls · databases · schools · hospitals · office supplies · meeting rooms · government agencies · spreadsheets · non-profits · adaptability · multitasking · assistant
- bureaucracybureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, red tape, civil service
- universitycampus, faculty, college, professors, degrees
- business costsdirect costs, direct labor, labor costs, material costs, production costs
- executive officedeputy, aide, advisor, executive assistant, assistant
- nonprofit jobsexecutive director, executive directors, program director, fundraiser, fundraisers
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
administrative staffexecutive leadership
Highest organizational authority holders
senior management · C-suite · top brass · board of directors · decision-makers