executive secretary

noun

a secretary with independent administrative responsibilities who assists an executive in a business firm.
an official who directs the business operations of an organization, especially a nonprofit one.

First recorded in 1945–50

The Tulsa suffragists opened headquarters, engaged an executive secretary and financed their own campaign.

But in time the Fahy Committee found a way, first suggested by its executive secretary, to turn the efficiency argument around.

In that volume,16 the report of the Executive Secretary deals elaborately with the subject of non-Christian tribes.

To this she gives all her time, aided by an executive secretary who takes charge of the routine work of the association.

This was in October, 1914, after just one year as Executive Secretary.

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