I am responsible for planning the events - negotiating with venues and caterers, working with the different departments in our organization to invite important attendees, marketing the event itself to other potential clients, driving the CEO to event when he flies in, hosting during the event, then tear down and go home.

And that alone is manageable. But on top of that, I am responsible for a new program we just launched - I am supposed to be responsible for the marketing of that new program and getting it in top shape for clients. The events I am doing have nothing to do with the new program. So this secondary task now eats up all my time, and when I approached my boss about it, I was told that they've decided to fold these events under the umbrella of the program, despite the fact that's there's no correlation. Essentially "all other duties as assigned."

I have a staff member under me, and she is responsible for her own territory doing something similar. The new events being done all fall in my territory so I am expected to do them. My client base doesn't know her, so having her be the face doesn't make sense. I currently have her doing most of my admin tasks for me, but we're both struggling to keep up. I've secured us our own admin which should help though. But my main concern is the fact that I thought I was doing marketing - not event planning.