"assistant department" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a department in a larger organization or organization that works in support of the primary department. For example, "The assistant department works closely with the account department to ensure accurate billing."
David Kroodsma Stanford, Calif., Oct. 20, 2005 The writer is a research assistant, department of global ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
An assistant department secretary leaving the Bush administration three years ago, with Republicans in control of the House, Senate and White House, might fetch as much $600,000 to $1 million a year in the influence business, recruiters and lobbyists said.
He accepted a post as assistant department chair for neurobiology and sociology at Northwestern University, a nontenure-track junior faculty post.
DF was assistant department head for NHRC OID at the time of manuscript submission.
He then came to New York as assistant decorating department manager of James McCreary & Sons, and later became an associate director of The Bertha Schaefer Art Gallery.
Looking at the list of assistant secretaries, department directors, chief financial officers and advisory board members who would be removed from the Senate docket, some conservatives see an effort to give the White House carte blanche to extend bureaucratic sprawl.
The state trooper, Edward Joyner — one of two police officers from Pennsylvania with Roethlisberger that night — obtained permission from supervisors five years ago to serve as a personal assistant, the department spokeswoman Lt. Myra Taylor said.
A blinded assistant (emergency department physician or nurse) not involved with the patient's care collected all outcome data, independent of the principal investigator.
We — a group of women at the International Monetary Fund ranging from administrative assistants to department heads — do not recognize the picture of the I.M.F.
Research assistants from each department will help screen participants.
‡Details of subjects working in healthcare-related industry – Chinese: 5 pharmacy students, 1 teaching assistant in pharmacy department of a university; Malays: 1 office assistant in pharmacy department of a university, 1 cleaner in healthcare institution; Indian: 1 hospital inpatient care assistant.
