Regional Mobilisation and National Advocacy Consultant - Digital PrEP

Role purpose

The Regional Mobilisation and National Advocacy Consultant will accelerate the adoption of digital PrEP across England. The postholder will build commitment through regional public health and commissioning networks, develop a pipeline of areas ready to implement, and influence the national policy and leadership environment needed for sustainable scale.

Working closely with the UK PrEP Programme Manager, the role will provide regional reach, senior stakeholder engagement and national influencing capacity. The role will require active area-to-area mobilisation, working directly with individual local systems to identify readiness, secure senior buy-in, address practical barriers and move areas from interest to implementation. It will help translate learning from UK PrEP pilots into practical implementation support, stronger commissioning cases and wider adoption.

Across the UK, PrEP pilots have focused on two complementary ways to widen access. Digital direct-to-consumer (DTC) PrEP enables people to access PrEP through a predominantly remote, digitally supported pathway. Other pilots have integrated, or bundled, PrEP into clinical services that people already use, including women's health hubs.

Together, these approaches are building practical evidence about how PrEP can be made more accessible, embedded within existing care pathways and implemented sustainably across different local systems. This role will focus primarily on scaling digital PrEP in England while ensuring that learning from both models informs regional mobilisation and national advocacy.

Regional mobilisation

• Lead targeted city-to-city mobilisation across priority areas, tailoring engagement to each local system's commissioning context, stakeholder landscape, unmet PrEP need and implementation readiness
• Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, including Directors of Public Health, Association of Directors of Public Health networks, Fast-Track Cities and relevant commissioning networks.
• Prioritise engagement using national PrEP data, needs assessments and local intelligence, with a focus on areas where new access routes could address unmet need or inequalities.
• Undertake stakeholder and power mapping to identify decision-makers, influencers, potential allies and barriers within each local system.
• Identify and support local champions, assess readiness to adopt digital PrEP and agree the next steps needed to build local commitment.
• Develop and manage a pipeline of areas progressing from initial interest to commitment, implementation planning and delivery.
• Convene regional and cross-system discussions that bring together public health, commissioning, sexual health, primary care, women's health and voluntary and community sector partners.
• Connect interested areas with the digital PrEP implementation support offer, drawing on the London toolkit and learning from UK PrEP pilots.
• Develop locally relevant cases for adoption by translating evidence into clear benefits, requirements and practical options for commissioners and providers.
• Identify recurring barriers to adoption, including governance, commissioning, procurement, workforce, data and pathway issues, and explore regional or collaborative solutions.
• Share regional intelligence, progress and learning with the UK PrEP Programme Manager and implementation partners to strengthen the wider programme.

National advocacy and influence

• Identify and engage influential national champions for digital PrEP and innovative PrEP delivery models.
• Build and maintain relationships with the Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security Agency, NHS England and other national HIV, sexual health and public health stakeholders.
• Ensure that evidence, outcomes and implementation learning from digital direct-to-consumer PrEP and integrated clinical pilots are visible and accessible to national decision-makers.
• Position digital PrEP and integrated delivery models as complementary contributions to the HIV Action Plan, including commitments to improve remote PrEP provision and scale effective innovation.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to influence national policy, guidance, commissioning approaches and investment decisions that could enable wider adoption.
• Translate programme evidence and local intelligence into clear, persuasive messages tailored to different national audiences.
• Work sensitively with national and voluntary and community sector partners, recognising…