administrative support
Behind-the-scenes help
Administrative support refers to the tasks and personnel that keep an office or organization running—scheduling, filing, correspondence, data entry, coordinating meetings, managing supplies.
The term encompasses work once called secretarial or clerical, now broadened to include technical tasks like maintaining databases or handling travel arrangements.
She started in administrative support before moving into management.
- phone callsAuditory telecommunication sessions
- data entryRecording information digitally
- filingStoring documents systematically
- record-keepingMaintaining organized documentation
- schedulingAssigning times to events
file · onboarding · procurement · archiving · event planning · expense reports · proofreading · transcription · copy machine · resource allocation · assistant · payroll processing · time sheets · clerical work · document formatting · inventory tracking · office management · mail room
- clergy compensationsalary, stipend, housing allowance, parsonage, rectory
administrative supportfield work
Research outside the office
creative work · research and development · manufacturing · sales · customer service
administrative supportexecutive leadership
Highest organizational authority holders
senior management · C-suite · ownership · decision-makers · directors
administrative supportexternal relations
Connections with outside parties
field operations · community engagement · public relations · external affairs