The secretary was the highest administrative leader of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina (SKV), the ruling party of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (SAPV) of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (SR of Serbia) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY).

The officeholder was elected by and answerable to the SKV Presidency.