In addition to the primary organizer (the person who pays for a group’s subscription), there are three roles on a group’s leadership team: co-organizers, assistant organizers, and event organizers. You can have as many leadership team members as you need.
Each role has different levels of access to a group’s organizer tools to support the primary organizer. Below is an overview of what each role can do.
Organizer
The Organizer has full control over the group, including:
Managing the organizer subscription
Closing the group or nominating a primary organizer
Managing group finances
Adding, changing, and removing leadership members
Managing group settings
Accepting, removing, and banning members
Viewing members’ attendance history
Contacting members
Scheduling, editing, and canceling events
Co-Organizer
The Co-Organizer has many of the same permissions as the Organizer, except for financial and subscription-related tasks. They can:
Add, change, and remove leadership members
Manage group settings
Accept, remove, and ban members
View members’ attendance history
Contact members
Schedule, edit, and cancel events
Assistant Organizer
The Assistant Organizer has a more limited role but can still manage some aspects of the group, including:
Accepting, removing, and banning members
Viewing members’ attendance history
Contacting members
Scheduling, editing, and canceling events
Event Organizer
The Event Organizer focuses on event-related tasks. They can:
Contact members
Schedule, edit, and cancel events
Everyone on a group's leadership team can use the event check-in feature.
Appoint new leadership members
To add, change, or remove leadership members:
From your group’s homepage click Members
Click the three-dot button next to the person you want to appoint
Click Change member role from the drop-down menu
Select a co-organizer, assistant organizer, or event organizer
Click Update role to confirm
Leadership roles can be adjusted on Meetup’s desktop and mobile website.
If you want to appoint a new primary group organizer, please follow the steps provided in this Help Center article: Stepping down as the organizer of a group.
Event hosts
Every event is assigned a one-time event host. This is not a leadership team position, but the event host does have access to manage the event's details. An event host can:
Manage attendees
Contact attendees
Close or open RSVPs
Edit event settings in the event scheduler
Cancel event
Delete event
Check-in attendees on the Meetup for Organizers App
The event's creator is assigned as host by default, but this role can be assigned to any member of the group.
To see how you can add an event host, refer to this article: How to Add an Event Host or Co-Host on Meetup.