Maksura Khatun has been working in the field of social research for around 6 years, in both field level & management level. Maksura started with DATA in 2021 as a Field Research Officer, she has started her career at management level with DATA as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Nov, 2023and continuing till to date. She has sound knowledge on survey monitoring & coordination, documentation and reporting etc.

As a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Maksura has experience of working in the process of field monitoring, data quality ensuring, collect daily field updates, field visit to oversee data collection, documentation,  conduct focus group discussion (FGD), in-depth interviews (IDI), key informant interviews (KI), drafting report etc.

Beside of that, Maksura directly involve with facilitating training to the enumerators, she also contributes in the process of  questionnaire development, transcribing and translating questionnaire, , participate in Training of Trainers (ToT), and take part in formative research for questionnaire development of survey project.

In 2024, Maksura was assigned by the management of DATA to co- lead & coordinate the Bangladesh Individual Consumption Study (BICS) survey of World Bank. In 2024, again she was assigned to co- lead & coordinate a study titled “Executive Functioning (EF)” project for a PhD candidate from Stanford University Apart of that Maksura was involved with the enumerators’ training process of the most of the surveys that DATA undertakes in last one year.

Maksura has experience of working in different steps of both hardcopy and device based survey. Maksura, holds a Master of Social Science (MSc) Degree in Economics from Jahangirnagar University in 2019.