Managing your role in an organization owned by your enterprise

You can manage your membership in any organization owned by your enterprise and change your role within the organization.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can manage their role in an organization owned by the enterprise.

In this article

About role management

You can choose to join an organization owned by your enterprise as a member or as an organization owner, change your role within the organization, or leave the organization.

Warning

If an organization uses SCIM to provision users, joining the organization this way could have unintended consequences. For more information, see About SCIM for organizations.

For information about managing other people's roles in an organization, see Managing membership in your organization and Managing people's access to your organization with roles.

Managing your role with the enterprise settings

You can join an organization owned by your enterprise and manage your role within the organization, directly from the settings for your enterprise account.

If an organization enforces SAML single sign-on (SSO), you cannot use the enterprise settings to join the organization. Instead, you must join the organization using that organization's identity provider (IdP). Then, you can manage your role in your enterprise settings. For more information, see Joining an organization that enforces SAML SSO.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.

  2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.

  3. Next to the organization you want to manage your role in, select the dropdown menu and click Join as an organization owner or Join as an organization member.

    Screenshot of an organization in the organization list. A dropdown menu, labeled with the gear icon, is highlighted with an orange outline.

Joining an organization that enforces SAML SSO

If an organization enforces SAML SSO, you cannot use the enterprise settings to join the organization. Instead, you must join the organization using that organization's identity provider (IdP).

  1. You must be assigned access in your IdP to the application for GitHub Enterprise Cloud that is used by the organization. If you're unable to configure your IdP yourself, contact your IdP administrator.

  2. Authenticate to the organization using SAML SSO.

    • If the organization uses SCIM, accept the organization invitation that will be generated by the SCIM integration.

    • If the organization does not use SCIM, visit the following URL, replacing ORGANIZATION with the name of the organization, then follow the prompts to authenticate.

      https://github.com/orgs/ORGANIZATION/sso

After you've joined the organization, you can use the enterprise settings to manage your role in the organization, such as becoming an organization owner. For more information, see Managing your role with the enterprise settings.