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ADMI.GEN.S5

S5S5 — Principal Support Specialistmedium0.70draftglobalv1

Highest level administrative support, often titled Senior Executive Assistant, Office Manager, or Administrative Manager.

Summary

Highest level administrative support, often titled Senior Executive Assistant, Office Manager, or Administrative Manager. May combine executive support with oversight of all administrative operations.

Level — S5 — Principal Support Specialist

Top support IC: subject-matter authority and program-level support strategy.

Scope
Function-wide support practice
Autonomy
Sets direction for the support discipline
Complexity
Program-level and systemic support problems
Impact
Support strategy across the function
Decision rights
Authority over support practice and standards
Leadership
Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice
Typical experience
8–12 yrs

Core outputs

No core outputs recorded yet.

Adjacent roles

Nearest roles by structural coordinates (level + taxonomy). Distance 0 → 1; each carries its 3-state match band. How coordinates work →

S4
ADMI.GEN.S4
Advanced
confident0.06
S3
ADMI.GEN.S3
Senior
confident0.11
S2
ADMI.GEN.S2
Standard
review0.17
M5
ADMI2.GEN.M5
Director of Administrative Services
review0.20
S4
CBSAS.GEN.S4
Senior Support
review0.21
S1
ADMI.GEN.S1
Entry
review0.23

Components

Responsibilities5

  • Oversee full spectrum of administrative activities.commonlevel
  • Lead significant organizational projects.commonlevel
  • Manage administrative budgets.commonlevel
  • Develop and enforce office policies and best practices.commonlevel
  • Coach and manage the administrative staff team.commonlevel

Tasks5

  • Oversee administrative activities.commonlevel
  • Lead projects.commonlevel
  • Manage budgets.commonlevel
  • Develop policies.commonlevel
  • Coach staff.commonlevel

Skills8

  • Administrative oversightcommonlevel
  • Project leadershipcommonlevel
  • Budget managementcommonlevel
  • Policy developmentcommonlevel
  • Staff coachingcommonlevel
  • Leadershipcommonlevel
  • Business strategycommonlevel
  • Vendor negotiationcommonlevel

Knowledge8

  • Administrative operationscommonlevel
  • Project managementcommonlevel
  • Financial managementcommonlevel
  • Policy developmentcommonlevel
  • Staff managementcommonlevel
  • Leadership principlescommonlevel
  • Business acumencommonlevel
  • Vendor managementcommonlevel

competency5

  • Leadership and visioncommonlevel
  • Business acumencommonlevel
  • Negotiation and vendor managementcommonlevel
  • Financial oversightcommonlevel
  • Change managementcommonlevel

qualification4

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degreecommonlevel
  • 8+ years in advanced admin rolescommonlevel
  • Expertise with enterprise resource planning systemscommonlevel
  • Professional management certificationscommonlevel

Title aliases

AliasTypeConfidenceApproved
Principal Administrative Assistantcommonmedium0.62—

Classification mappings

O*NET / SOC

  • code=13-0000title=Business & Financial Operations Occupationssource=inferred_from_superfunctionreviewStatus=needs_review