Overview

• Panyame Wildlife Conservancy has advertised a full-time cheetah monitor position to track and care for reintroduced cheetahs across its 210,000-hectare reserve.
• Since its July 15 Instagram debut the vacancy has amassed over 41,000 likes and 64,000 shares while attracting hundreds of amused comments.
• Social media users joked about training cheetahs to use Excel, questioned whether they speak English and asked if previous monitors were eaten.
• Candidates are required to be physically fit, fluent in English, bush-ready and proficient in Excel with Portuguese and Shona skills considered a bonus.
• The successful applicant will live at a remote bush camp and use telemetry and data tools such as EarthRanger to collaborate with anti-poaching teams and support the conservancy’s cheetah project.