Job Description

Position: Scrum Master

Agency: California state agency

Client: State of California

Location: Sacramento, CA

Work Mode: Hybrid

Candidates must be able to work during Pacific Time business hours.

California state government or public-sector experience and PMP, CSM, PSM, or similar certification are strongly preferred.

Project Description:

California Agency is establishing a preapproved pool of qualified project-management professionals to support various business and technology initiatives. The selected resources may provide Project Management, Agile Delivery, and Scrum Master services.

Responsibilities may include leading cross-functional teams, coordinating with business, technical, and vendor stakeholders, maintaining project plans and schedules, managing risks and issues, facilitating meetings, tracking action items, and preparing status reports, dashboards, and executive-level briefings.

Candidates should have:

• A bachelor's degree in business, public administration, IT, organizational leadership, or a related field, or equivalent additional experience
• At least seven years of project-management experience within the past ten years
• At least seven years of experience leading cross-functional business, technical, and vendor teams
• Healthcare project experience
• Experience developing project charters, work plans, schedules, status reports, RAID logs, meeting materials, and action trackers
• Experience preparing executive-level briefings and dashboards
• Knowledge of Agile or hybrid delivery methods
• Strong stakeholder-management, leadership, communication, and documentation skills
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining core project management deliverables, including project charters, work plans, schedules, status reports, risk and issue logs, meeting materials, and action item trackers.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring project scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables, and escalating concerns in a timely manner.
• Experience facilitating meetings, documenting decisions, tracking follow-up actions, and communicating project status clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
• Experience preparing executive-level briefings, dashboards, status summaries, and decision-support materials.
• Experience working in health care environments that use structured project management practices and, where applicable, Agile or hybrid delivery methods.
• Working knowledge of Agile principles and the ability to coordinate with Scrum Masters, product owners, technical teams, and business stakeholders as needed.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear, concise, and professional documentation.
• Ability to provide services in compliance with direction, timelines, approval requirements, and deliverable review processes.
  
  

Desirable Qualifications

• Project management experience supporting California state government or another public-sector entity.
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or comparable industry-recognized certification.
• Experience managing projects involving enterprise applications, digital services, business process improvement, organizational change, procurement support, or vendor coordination.
• Experience supporting projects that require coordination across executive leadership, program areas, operations teams, and information technology teams.
• Experience using Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery approaches to plan work, manage priorities, and support incremental delivery.
• Experience identifying process gaps, recommending practical improvements, and helping teams implement more efficient project controls or governance practices.
• Experience onboarding quickly into a new project environment and becoming effective with minimal ramp-up time.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, exercise sound judgment, and maintain professionalism in sensitive or high-visibility assignments.
• Familiarity with public benefits, consumer-facing service environments, or other programs with complex policy, operational, and stakeholder considerations.

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