Carleigh Beriont for Congress (NH-01): Campaign Manager

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Carleigh Beriont for Congress is hiring a Campaign Manager to lead the campaign's strategy, staff, fundraising, and execution for her 2026 race in New Hampshire's First Congressional District.

Carleigh is a teacher, union organizer, mom of two, and Chair of the Hampton Select Board. She is running to represent New Hampshire's First Congressional District, fighting for affordable housing, a livable climate, gun safety reform, and an end to Congressional stock trading. Her campaign takes no money from AIPAC or corporate PACs and runs without social media, putting every dollar into organizing across NH-01.

Carleigh helped lead the campaign that unionized Harvard's graduate student workers, winning higher wages, childcare subsidies, and anti-retaliation protections for thousands. She defeated a two-term Republican incumbent to win her seat on the Hampton Select Board, where she led the effort to withdraw Hampton from a coalition of wealthy towns lobbying the state to make education funding less equitable. She holds a PhD from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and teaches government and U.S. history at the Harvard Kennedy School.

The Role

The Campaign Manager reports directly to Carleigh and the General Consultant and works alongside the senior strategic team to set and execute the overall campaign strategy. This role owns the path to victory in the 2026 Democratic primary. The Campaign Manager manages campaign staff, owns the budget, drives the fundraising operation with Carleigh and the finance committee, sets message strategy and rapid response, and builds the field, political, and digital programs needed to win NH-01.

Responsibilities

• Execute the campaign's path to victory, translating it into a quarterly, monthly, and weekly operating plan that every department works against

• Manage the campaign team: hire and onboard new staff, run weekly one-on-ones, set performance expectations, and make hiring and firing decisions

• Own the campaign budget end-to-end: build the spending plan, track burn rate weekly, and make resource allocation decisions across departments

• Drive the fundraising operation alongside Carleigh and the finance committee: protect call time, hold the campaign to weekly call time and dial goals, and grow the donor pipeline

• Run the weekly senior staff meeting and operate the campaign's planning cycle so every department is aligned on priorities

• Manage Carleigh's time alongside the operations team and ensure the schedule is sequenced around fundraising, voter contact, press, and political relationship-building

• Build the field program and it’s target universe, voter contact goals, volunteer pipeline, and the GOTV plan

• Manage the campaign's political outreach: build and maintain relationships with labor, progressive organizations, electeds, and local stakeholders across NH-01

• Serve as the primary external face of the campaign to political partners, allied organizations, and reporters when needed

• Identify and resolve operational risks before they become crises; flag major risks and resource needs to Carleigh and senior advisor

• Build and maintain the campaign's reporting cadence: internal metrics dashboards, and weekly updates to Carleigh and the senior team

The Right Person

• Has at least one cycle as a Campaign Manager, Deputy Campaign Manager, or Finance Director on a federal, state legislative, or comparable competitive race

• Is an executer first and foremost

• Has previously hired, managed, and developed campaign staff

• Strong budgeting and operational discipline; comfortable owning a multi-line campaign budget and making resource allocation decisions

• Knows how to run a grassroots, no-corporate-PAC operation and protect call time as the core fundraising engine

• Strong written communicator who can sync teams quickly and brief Carleigh in plain terms

• Thrives in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment and can work long hours and meet tight deadlines