New role offered but responsibilities not clear

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I've been offered a new role to support my manager. It's a new role and firstly I believed that it was to alleviate managers workload (on the technical side of work), but it now transpires that it will involve other responsibilities (eg line manager responsibilities) that I'm not interested in.

I don't want to let people down (there's no one else available to do this and we struggle to recruit) but is it unreasonable of me to ask for a full role description before I sign up to this?

There's also unlikely to be any financial gain for doing the extra work.

What’s stopping you from asking? It would be weird if you did sign up to a new role without knowing all about it.

And deff ask for more money.

Job description, aims and objectives, responsibilities, you can't do a good job if you don't know what you're supposed to be doing ...... and look at the new job and see if your current salary is appropriate for this.

If it's an expanded role with managerial responsibilities, you'd be daft not to ask for more money. Being laid what you are now to be some kind of exec assistant, would be them taking the piss