# process roles ### General Points Process roles are not related to Membership of the co-operative. The only exceptions are the Purpose Circle roles and the Co-Circle roles. You do not have to be a Member to fulfil any of the roles beyond these Circles. Any person may fill more than one role, and roles may be combined. The only exception to this is the Leader and Delegate role. All roles are selected by the Full Participants of a Circle using the [Nominations ](/circles/join-or-leave-a-circle.md)process. The only exception to this is in the case of the Co-Circle Leader, who must be mutually selected by the Purpose and Co-Circle Full Participants. Any person may appoint a substitute to cover their role if they are absent from a meeting or that substitute may be appointed by the Facilitator, Secretary, Delegate or Leader. A Circle may rotate its roles in order to support the learning and development of Full and Learning Circle Participants. However, any agreement to do this must: (a) notify other Circles of the rotation and record this in the Minutes (b) evaluate the rotation process and review with each handover (c) nominate an experienced 'back-stop' person who will co-ordinate handovers and pick up gaps for that particular role Equal Care Co-op will train all current and prospective Circle Participants in the relevant roles. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://work.equalcare.coop/circles/circle-roles.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.