LOL did i? I wasn't even competitions staff in August, infact if I quite remember I think I planned to just be forum oriented during my area of competitions, that all changed december 30th...
But yes, I agree with Mike. I think the role is the same and I think I am the one to ask here! I don't think there's any need for another one if you wanted that to happen either as Assistant or Senior, the person would be equally as good. I don't think it's a concerning issue as whether it is a Managerial position or not, it's what they do which is important, in reality it's not that big a jump from normal to assistant in this case. It'd just be the Manager training up the new Assistant, like I got trained up when I was senior.