Staff contribute to, support, and implement the strategic planning process. Technical staff may help design and coordinate the process, collect and analyse data, prepare consultations, draft materials, and support leaders to make informed decisions. Staff across the National Society contribute operational knowledge, participate in consultations, help translate strategic priorities into departmental and programme plans, communicate the strategy internally, implement agreed actions, monitor progress, and feed learning back into future planning. They require competencies in strategic awareness, process coordination, technical planning, data collection and analysis, facilitation, synthesis, results-based planning, communication, collaboration, learning, and contextual judgement.