Hello,
A project administrator does not receive the permission to assign tasks. You need to grant this permission to a role or a group to which you belong. The permission is called Assign issues.
You can read more about permissions here:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/managing-project-permissions-861253293.html
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