Family Advisor; Midwest

Role: Family Advisor

Reports to: Director of Family Advising

Salary: $80,000 with a $3,000 stipend for candidates with fluency in writing and speaking Spanish, Japanese or another target language.

Status: Full-time

Location: Remote but must live in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Ohio as this position will require travel to visit families across the state (approximately 25% travel).

National Math Stars ensures mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.

Through our Awards Program, we collaborate with schools and districts to identify and recognize their highest-achieving 2% of 2nd- and 3rd-grade math students. Those students are invited to a competitive admissions process, which aims to select the top talent from all communities. (You could roughly think of this as “the best young mathematician in every ZIP code,” if the US didn’t have quite so many ZIP codes!)

We admit those top students to our Stars Programs and work with them (and their families) over the course of a decade to support their journeys to the frontiers of STEM. All Stars receive access to advanced math opportunities, family guidance, and community gatherings. Within the Stars Program, we have two tracks: (1) our fully-funded Voyager Stars program, targeted at families with significant unmet need for guidance and financial support, and (2) our Pathfinder Stars program, which provides lighter-touch advising and access to partial funding for STEM opportunities.

We currently serve over 400 Stars across seven states and are rapidly expanding our reach.

In 2026, we anticipate admitting an additional 125 students into Voyager, from across the Midwest and the South.

As a Family Advisor for National Math Stars, you are the first and most frequent point of contact for our families and Stars. You will work closely with approximately 30-35 families on your caseload from their acceptance to their graduation from the program, meeting with them monthly or as needed to provide invaluable support throughout their 10‑year journey with us. With each family, you will customize support based on their goals and needs.

The support you will provide will include partnering with them to advocate for accommodations and support in their schools, assisting them in managing their allotted enrichment budgets, helping them find and access incredible STEM extracurricular and summer opportunities, and providing them with a holistic view of their child’s experience and opportunities in the program. As a family advisor, you will develop the most trust and strongest relationships with our families and Stars and have the ability to positively impact their journey for years to come.

We anticipate the start date for this role to be late July. Although this is a remote position, candidates for this role must live in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Ohio
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The family advisor’s key responsibilities fall under the following categories:

• Manage and support a caseload of 30-35 families
• Conduct a minimum of one advisory meeting with each family every two months (note that some of these meetings will require advisors to be available during evenings and weekends to accommodate our families’ needs)
• Co-create individualized goals and plans with each Star and their family and track their progress towards these goals
• Be available to families as needed via email, text, or phone call for questions or concerns related to the program or support they are seeking
• Assist families in connecting with external resources (e.g. mental health providers or housing assistance) when the support they require falls beyond our program's scope of services
• Schedule family meetings with appropriate program staff
• Track relevant data to ensure that families are meeting the minimum commitment requirements for the program
• Provide families with constant encouragement and support for their child to continue to succeed on their journey with National Math Stars

• Pack and deliver welcome packs to families at…