@Susan Dodds, Thanks for posting in Q&A. Based on my researching, I find you can sign in Microsoft 365 admin center with a Global admin or User admin to assign the license. Here is a link with more details:
However, if it is still not working, you can ask in Microsoft 365 community to get help on this:
Hope the above information can help.
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