Currently the following roles are available in Dorset Area.
- Publicity Officer. This role involves producing interesting advertising for Dorset Area of the Ramblers.
- Footnotes Editor. Footnotes is the newsletter for Dorset Area of the Ramblers and is published three times a year. The editor takes in articles that will interest local ramblers including local information about footpaths and edits a readable newsletter that is distributed by email and post to members of all the Ramblers groups in Dorset.
- Webmaster. This role involves looking after the hosting arrangements for the Dorset Area website, and includes editing the site. The post holder looks after the hosting arrangements for other individual Dorset Ramblers sites as required, currently just East Dorset Group. The post holder need not attend committee meetings. The time spent on the work is intermittent depending on changes and charges made by the website host and changes required by the Dorset Area Committee.
- Three individual members. These members do not have a specific role but can bring points of view held by members to meetings and maybe take on a specific role later on.