My job at the UW is not paid for by the department I work for or even the school unit: the position is funded by a University Initiative Fund grant[1]. Essentially, I have cost the school and the department nothing for the 9 months I’ve been there.
I just checked my online payroll and employee information pages (the UW makes all this information available through a secure webserver: very nice) and it looks like my position is about to run out of funding. So it’s seems like a good time to move on.
[1]. The UIF grant program was a brainchild of the former and yet-to-be replaced president of the university: each unit kicked back 1% of their budget to a common pool and could then write grant proposals to get some of it back. This position was created as a result of a successful grant application and has been funded by the grant proceeds for the past three years.