I have the same issue on my bedrock server. In fact, one of the other members goes AFK for long periods of time so that no one can skip the night. There was a thunderstorm the other day so that was fun.
Anyway, I don't believe there is an answer to your problem. If it were possible for one person to skip the night without others doing so, then one person would be in the daytime and another in the nighttime, which would lead to a heck of a lot of problems.
So yeah, as much as I would like to skip the night regardless of what other people are doing, it would just mess up Minecraft, so understandably they don't allow it. I guess you could kick players who are afk for a while if you wanted to, or use chat to tell everyone that it's time to go to bed.
Hope this clears that up!