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How to change the owner of an opportunity or internship

If you’re a sitewide, agency, or community manager, you can change the owner of an opportunity or internship . You might need to change the owner if the current owner has left your agency and the opportunity needs to stay open or in progress. The new owner must be in your agency.

To change the owner of an opportunity


  1. Sign into Open Opportunities.
  2. Click Administration and you’ll go to your dashboard.
  3. Go to the Sitewide, Agency or Community tab. Depending on your role, you’ll only see tab options that you’re an administrator for. If you are a community manager, you will only see the Community tab.
  4. Click Manage Opportunities in the sub-navigation.
  5. Select the Open, Not open, or In progress status.
  6. Find the opportunity where you need to change the owner.
  7. Click the Change owner icon.
  8. Type the new owner’s name until you see it in the list—they must have an Open Opportunities account and they must be in your agency.
  9. Select the new owner’s name and click Change owner.

To change the owner of an internship


  1. Sign into Open Opportunities.
  2. Click Administration and you’ll go to your dashboard.
  3. Go to the Sitewide, Agency or Community tab. Depending on your role, you’ll only see tab options that you’re an administrator for. If you are a community manager, you will only see the Community tab.
  4. Click Manage internships in the sub-navigation.
  5. Select the Open, In review, or In progress status.
  6. Find the opportunity where you need to change the owner.
  7. Click the Change owner icon.
  8. Type the new owner’s name until you see it in the list—they must have an Open Opportunities account and they must be in your agency.
  9. Select the new owner’s name and click Change owner.