Board advisor - Salary and Career
Executive Secretaries

Board advisor - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They advise executives in the performance of their duties, assisting people (external and internal customers), managing information, preparing documents, controlling physical and electronic correspondence, providing services in foreign languages, organizing events and trips, supervising work teams, managing supplies, filing physical and electronic documents assisting in the execution of your administrative tasks and in meetings.

How much does an Board advisor earn

A Board advisor earns between $1.126 and $6.351 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.217 and a median salary of $1.400 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 53.758 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Board advisor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.217 26.608 554 10
1º Quartile 1.126 13.513 282 5
Median Salary 1.400 16.800 350 7
3º Quartile 4.844 58.122 1.211 23
Higher Salary 6.351 76.212 1.588 30


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of the social sciences and humanities
      • organization and business administration professionals
        • executive secretaries

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Main workplaces

Executive Secretaries they work in the most varied economic activities of industry, commerce and services, in addition to public administration, as employees with a formal contract, statutory employees, or self-employed, under occasional supervision. They work individually or in teams, indoors and during daytime hours. They can remain in uncomfortable positions for long periods. They advise managers, serving more than one director or one area. Bilingual-trilingual secretaries perform the same activities as executive secretaries and differ in activities that require fluency in a foreign language.


What does it take to work in the field of Executive Secretaries

The exercise of these occupations requires a degree in secretarial work at the baccalaureate or technology level. Functional registration with the MTE is mandatory. For bilingual and trilingual secretaries, fluency in two or three foreign languages is essential. The full development of activities occurs after two or three years of experience.


Functions and activities of Board advisor

Executive Secretaries must:

  • providing services in foreign language;
  • elaborate documents;
  • manage information;
  • prepare documents;
  • answering people (external and internal customer);
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • advisor executive(s) / area(s);
  • archive physical and electronic documents;
  • supervise work teams;
  • develop documents;
  • providing foreign language services;
  • provide services in foreign language;
  • organizing events and travel;
  • provide services in foreign language;
  • serve people (external and internal customer);
  • serving people (external and internal customer);
  • serve people (external and internal customer);
  • organize events and travel;
  • control physical and electronic correspondence;
  • service people (external and internal customer);
  • provide foreign language services;
  • service people (external and internal customer);
  • manage supplies;
  • advise executive(s) / area(s);

  • Activities

    • work as a team;
    • establish a schedule of activities;
    • authorize entry/stay of visitors and third parties;
    • establish team assignments;
    • make appointments;
    • support expatriates;
    • schedule team activities;
    • overcoming adverse situations;
    • manage the executive's agenda(s) ;
    • forward phone calls;
    • survey material requirements;
    • register documents;
    • register correspondence;
    • make phone calls;
    • taking notes;
    • disclose information;
    • identify the subject;
    • forward documents;
    • request funds;
    • work under pressure;
    • control deadlines;
    • write documents;
    • make clippings;
    • show patience;
    • identify the nature of the document;
    • monitor team work;
    • create reports;
    • providing equipment, materials and support services;
    • transmit messages;
    • demonstrate discretion;
    • play documents;
    • dispatch with the executive(s) ;
    • demonstrate rhetorical skills;
    • checklist;
    • translate documents;
    • forward certificates;
    • receive correspondence;
    • control schedules;
    • elaborate minutes;
    • transcribe texts;
    • supporting expatriates;
    • receive people;
    • demonstrate leadership spirit;
    • select personnel;
    • provide special service to authorities and differentiated customers;
    • search information and data;
    • annotate information;
    • elaborate accountability;
    • demonstrate proactiveness;
    • use the temporality table;
    • quote prices;
    • determine file format (floppy, microfilm);
    • elaborate database;
    • filter phone calls;
    • translate documents;
    • arrange tickets, accommodation and local transport;
    • send correspondence;
    • play documents;
    • demonstrate initiative;
    • prioritize appointments and phone calls;
    • manage pending issues;
    • elaborate spreadsheets and graphs;
    • support during the event;
    • providing special service to authorities and differentiated customers;
    • secretariat meetings;
    • demonstrate proactivity;
    • review translations;
    • cancel appointments;
    • charge responses;
    • provide information;
    • empower team;
    • elaborate school documentation;
    • purchase material, equipment and furniture;
    • forward people;
    • track processes;
    • manage conflicts;
    • prepare presentations;
    • sort documents;
    • monitor entry and exit times;
    • work as a team;
    • guide people;
    • check material;
    • secretariat of meetings;
    • type documents;
    • show patience;
    • direct information;
    • ciceronar visits;
    • fulfill orders and requests;
    • reserve room/location;
    • sign school documents;
    • adapt to change;
    • provide legal documentation for the executive (passport, visas);
    • read documents;
    • answering phone calls;
    • manage stress;
    • adapt storage space;
    • consult professionals from other areas;
    • adapt to change;
    • accompany executive(s) in event(s) and travel;
    • demonstrate sensitivity;
    • protocol correspondence;
    • sieve correspondence;
    • quote prices;
    • take dictations;
    • control pouch;
    • send invitation or summons;
    • clippings;
    • manage files;
    • provide interpreter service;
    • monitor contracts and warranties;
    • elaborate attendance list;
    • sort documents;
    • charge reports;
    • update files;
    • formulate purchase orders;
    • order material;
    • collect signature;
    • format documents;
    • support meetings;
    • confirm attendance;
    • demonstrate a sense of organization;
    • elaborate invitations and summons;
    • synthesize texts in a foreign language;
    • elaborate evaluation form;
    • set hours;
    • keep the database up to date;
    • evaluate the team;
    • demonstrate communication skills;
    • create attendance list;
    • develop attendance list;
    • hire exhibitors and speakers;
    • search location;
    • sign school documents;
    • enter documents;
    • charge actions;
    • writing documents in a foreign language;
    • prepare presentations;
    • hire third-party services;
    • demonstrate dynamism;
    • prepare room/location;
    • transmit fax;
    • archive correspondence;
    • choose menu;


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