The phrase 'department assistant' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone whose job is to assist with tasks within a certain department of an organization. For example, "John is the department assistant in the Human Resources department."
She fired again, hitting a department assistant, Stephanie Monticciolo.
Also on Friday, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, created a post in her department, assistant secretary for global affairs, and appointed Dr. Nils Daulaire to it.
Last November, an employment tribunal ordered London Dream Motion Pictures to make backdated minimum wage payments to Nicola Vetta, an art department assistant who had been taken on by the company on an expenses-only basis.
Mr. Schaming and several other curators deputized the three recovery managers, and other colleagues, such as Lt. Bruce Bovino, a key Police Department assistant, to serve as exhibit collectors.
Dawn Tuttle, a personnel department assistant for the town, said that severance pay, benefits, or other possible compensation to anyone who might lose employment with the town had not been discussed.
During the four years I served under President George H.W. Bush, he nominated me for three successive positions in the department — assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel; deputy attorney general; and, finally, attorney general.
Networks are built from successful application of people skills with deans, faculty, classmates, alumni, department assistants, advisers and coaches.
In this theatre, all non-medical staff are nurses i.e. there are no porters or operating department assistants and all are registered nurses.
Mr. Carway is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, along with V. Paul Pennetti, deputy director of the department; Stephen J. Griffiths, assistant director; Thomas DiGilio, assistant deputy director; and David Fersh, a supervisor now retired.
"It's not that significant — 10 percent or less," said Kenneth Bromberg, the department's assistant deputy administrator for fissile materials disposition.
Within three weeks of her taking her concerns to Louisville's human resources department, the assistant coach, Mary Banker, was fired.
