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Managing a leadership team

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:

  1. From your group’s homepage click Members
  2. Click the three-dot button next to the person you want to appoint
  3. Click Change member role from the drop-down menu
  4. Select a co-organizer, assistant organizer, or event organizer
  5. Click Update role to confirm

Leadership roles can be adjusted on Meetup’s desktop and mobile website.

For more, watch our Community Support specialists walk you through assigning leadership roles in this video:

Learn more about how to select excellent candidates for your leadership team in this Meetup Live recording.

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 details of the event. 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.

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