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Do you want to contribute to turning a socially important mission into concrete results through well-functioning, agile teams?

At the Swedish Food Agency, we operate in a complex reality with legal requirements, political decisions, many stakeholders, and high demands for quality and transparency. We are now looking for an Agile Coach who wants to help strengthen our ability to navigate this landscape – by developing both the teams' working methods and the organization's agile maturity.

Your Role

In this role, you provide practical and present support to the teams in their daily work. You help them create structure that works in practice, gain flow in deliveries, and focus on what provides the most value. At the same time, you contribute a holistic perspective and see how working methods and collaboration can be developed over time. Here you have the opportunity to influence how we work with continuous improvement in an organization where social benefit is at the center.

The role involves, among other things:

• Facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
• Coaching teams and individuals in agile principles, self-organization, and accountability
• Identifying and removing impediments that affect the teams' delivery capability
• Supporting Product Owners in backlog structure, prioritization, and value creation
• Supporting teams in breaking down goals into actionable activities and ensuring the work leads to concrete delivery
• Driving continuous improvement work within and between teams
• Contributing to the development of a culture characterized by collaboration, transparency, and learning
• Acting as a link between the development team and other parts of the organization
• Monitoring methods and trends in agile development and coaching

Together with your colleagues, you take responsibility for ensuring that the organization's mission and priorities are reflected in daily work. You weigh the needs of target groups, governing frameworks, and available resources against each other and help the organization make wise trade-offs. By contributing new perspectives and current knowledge, you strengthen our ability to turn direction into concrete and sustainable delivery.

The Unit for Digitalization and IT

In the Unit for Digitalization and IT, we work with business development and digitalization by leading, developing, and managing the Swedish Food Agency's IT systems, as well as ensuring operation and support.

We are in a development phase where we are strengthening our common structure and collaboration between teams. As an Agile Coach, you will become an important part of this work and collaborate closely with development teams, product owners, architects, and managers.

Together, we create sustainable and robust solutions that support the Swedish Food Agency's mission and contribute to an efficient and quality-assured operation.

Your Competence

We are looking for you who have:

• An academic degree in IT, organization, or equivalent
• Certification as a Scrum Master (CSM, PSM, or equivalent)
• Experience as a Scrum Master (at least 3 years)
• Experience coaching multiple teams simultaneously
• Experience working in a software development environment
• Very good knowledge of Swedish

You have knowledge in:

• Scrum and agile principles
• Kanban and Lean principles
• Facilitation techniques and workshop leadership
• Tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar

It is also meritorious if you have:

• Certification as an Agile Coach (ICP-ACC, ICF, or equivalent)
• SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM, or similar)
• Experience with agile transformation or organizational change
• Experience working in the public sector
• Understanding of SAFe or other scaled agile methodologies
• Knowledge of English

Your Personal Attributes

To succeed in the role, you have a strong ability to work with people and create trusting collaborations. You communicate clearly and pedagogically, adapt your message to the recipient and context, and feel confident presenting, facilitating, and leading dialogues. You also have a natural ability to influence and engage others – and to bring people along in change.

You are curious and want to understand both the organization's needs and the contexts we operate in. You build relationships and networks that create alignment and progress, and you are happy to share knowledge and insights.

When conditions change, you are flexible and find ways forward. You handle demands and setbacks constructively and contribute calm, structure, and direction even in complex situations.

Welcome to Contact Us

You are welcome to contact the recruiting manager, David Foster. Representatives for Saco-S are Åsa Eneroth and for ST Annika Gunnarsson. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

The last day for applications is 2026-08-10. Apply via the job ad on Lediga jobb (livsmedelsverket.se), mark the application with case number 2026/02400. The application must be written in Swedish.

More Information About the Position

Employment type: Permanent, full-time. We apply a 6-month probation period.

Start date: Immediately, by agreement.

Organizational affiliation: The Unit for Digitalization and IT.

Location: Uppsala

Job title: Business Developer

All permanent staff at the Swedish Food Agency are assigned to wartime duties within the agency.

Salary is set in accordance with the central collective agreements for the public sector. At the Swedish Food Agency, individual and differentiated salary setting is applied.

Before the Interview

Grades, certificates, and ID documents that support your application should be brought to a potential interview.

We make our assessment based on the information in the application documents, so please be clear about how you meet the qualifications.

Welcome with your application!

This recruitment is carried out in collaboration with our procured recruitment partner Peops Relations, who handles parts of the process. We therefore decline contact from other recruitment companies and advertising sales.

Why the Swedish Food Agency?

Food and drinking water affect everyone in one way or another, and the interest in both food itself and the Swedish Food Agency's work is very great.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we contribute to ensuring that food and drinking water are safe for Swedish consumers, that no one is misled about what food contains, and towards sustainable food consumption. The Swedish Food Agency is part of building Sweden's civil defense and has a key role for a robust food and drinking water supply.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we work efficiently and with quality assurance, and all employees, leaders, and managers take joint responsibility for the organization's mission and development from a holistic perspective. Through our co-leadership, we promote engagement and learning.