After 6 months of working in the organization as the only employee in my department and technically managing it, I actually got promoted to management, officially, and getting a small team to help me do the work. Which is amazing. But as I went over the budget, I saw that employees are getting funded by the projects donors way more than we are actually getting paid for and are expected to work on way more things than we are actually getting paid for.
Now, I still haven't got my new contract, and I don't know how much I'm getting paid in my new role or how much my team is getting paid, but I was wondering if anyone else saw some fishy budgeting for their role and what they did to make things better (would do if they had the chance).
My plan for now is to sit down with my department team, gather all their tasks, and decide together what we plan on working on considering our salaries. Anything out of this range would be presented to the higher management under the title “not my circus” and I might ask for either a raise or more team members to take more tasks. I wonder if that's enough, though. What would you do?