My definition for such a person definitely includes trust. Additional attributes would include:
- familiarity with the external view of the enabled applications
- trained in community-building tasks
- familiar enough with the external view of the permissions/groups subsystems to perform his tasks
- connected into a "community" of sub-site admins
- not normally taking a technical orientation
This is the kind of person that I think/thought the sub-site "application" is built for. Sometimes I am naive, but I believe that is mostly achieveable with the current design.