DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION
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Definitions
1. the hat of the Director of Administration is to expedite, supervise or handle all administrative actions for the organization. (HCO PL 5 Dec 62)
2. the Director of Administration, regardless of the title of the administrative personnel, is directly in charge of all administrative personnel, is responsible for their hiring and firing, their arrival on time and proper performance of their duties, and for the purpose of pay and facilities is in charge of technical personnel. (HCO PL 5 Dec 62)
3. the Director of Administration compares to the head of the administrative corps of a hospital where he runs everything except the doctors and does everything except treat and has charge of all the purposes except trying to make people well. (HCO PL 5 Dec 62)
4. the terms Administrator and Director of Administration are interchangeable. (HCO PL 5 Dec 62)
5. the function of the Director of Administration is to see that all policies relating to the Administrative Division as laid down by the Board or the Executive Director but always from the Board via the Executive Director are executed. The post of Director of Administration is supposed to make the policies of the Executive Director stick in the Administrative Division. The post of Director of Administration will be backed up fully so long as it devotes its energies, to making the Executive Director's policies work. The task is not to create new policies, but to make existing policies stick. When room space is allocated by the Executive Director, the Director of Administration is supposed to make the people and furniture into that allocation plan. When financial policy is laid down, the Director of Administration is supposed to see that it alone is the policy used. If such things cannot be done, the post is not being held. (SEC ED 5,16 Dec 58)
6. purpose: to ensure good and accurate communication inside the organization, handles business and administrative affairs. To ensure good working quarters and conditions for, and good work from, organizational personnel. (HCO London, 9 Jan 58)