deputy director
Leader's right hand
A deputy director is the second-ranking official in an organization, department, or agency, serving directly beneath the director.
The deputy typically assumes the director's responsibilities during absences and handles day-to-day operations: The deputy director ran the meeting while the director was traveling.
In government agencies, the position often carries significant independent authority.
- number twoDeputy or runner-up
- right handDominant side for most
- managerOne who directs others
- second-in-commandImmediate subordinate to leader
- executiveSenior organizational leader
supervisor · senior leadership · understudy · lieutenant · aide · bureaucrat · official · agency · security clearance · government · federal agency · executive branch · rank · hierarchy · org chart · promotion · corner office · briefing
- Deputieslieutenant, second-in-command, second in command, number two, vice president
- Bank Executivesbank manager, branch manager, CEO, CFO, chairman
- FBI jobsspecial agent, field agent, counterintelligence agent, undercover agent, intelligence analyst
- executivesCEO, CFO, COO, CIO, CTO
- leadersleader, boss, leaders, bosses, chiefs
- spiesJames Bond, spy, Jason Bourne, secret agent, Ethan Hunt
deputy directordirector
One who leads
chief executive · CEO · head · president · chairman
deputy directorsubordinate
One lower in rank
underling · rank and file · junior staff · trainee · intern
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